Director Esq Steven A Meyerowitz

February 13, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

The Missouri Department of Insurance has reported that nearly 3,700 individuals were treated for autism-related conditions in 2018, receiving nearly 85,000 autism treatments of which 51,223 were applied behavioral analysis sessions covered under Missouri’s mandate.

By FC&S Legal Director Esq. Steven A. Meyerowitz

3 minute read

February 13, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

The insurance commissioner of Kansas, Vicki Schmidt, has named Justin McFarland as general counsel to the insurance department.

By FC&S Legal Director Esq. Steven A. Meyerowitz

1 minute read

February 13, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

A jury in New York has ruled that a driver must pay $1 million to a man injured when the driver struck his vehicle’s open door.

By FC&S Legal Director Esq. Steven A. Meyerowitz

2 minute read

February 13, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

An appellate court in Florida cited eight provisions in a commercial lease to conclude that the landlord’s insurer could bring a subrogation action against a tenant whose alleged negligence had caused fire damage to the rented building – notwithstanding that, under the lease, the tenant paid the majority of the premiums for the landlord’s fire insurance.

By FC&S Legal Director Esq. Steven A. Meyerowitz

9 minute read

February 12, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

A federal district court has ruled that a woman’s designation as beneficiary of her former husband’s life insurance policy was revoked by operation of New Jersey law as a result of the couple’s divorce.

By FC&S Legal Director Esq. Steven A. Meyerowitz

3 minute read

February 12, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

The Bermuda Monetary Authority has recorded a large year-on-year increase in new reinsurance registrations, from 58 in 2017 to 75 in 2018.

By FC&S Legal Director Esq. Steven A. Meyerowitz

2 minute read

February 12, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

A federal district court in California has ruled that a wrap-up exclusion in a commercial general liability insurance policy issued to a subcontractor did not preclude coverage of claims against the subcontractor where there was no possibility of duplicative coverage.

By FC&S Legal Director Esq. Steven A. Meyerowitz

4 minute read

February 12, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

An Arizona court has upheld a decision awarding death benefits to the widow of a worker whom the employer contended could not have been his employee because the worker was an “illegal alien.”

By FC&S Legal Director Esq. Steven A. Meyerowitz

5 minute read

February 12, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

An unlicensed plastic surgeon, Brad Jacobs, of Westbury, New York, has been convicted of engaging in a four year scheme to illegally perform surgeries on patients and of committing a massive disability insurance and welfare fraud scheme.

By FC&S Legal Director Esq. Steven A. Meyerowitz

5 minute read

February 11, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled that the owner of an apartment building in Louisville, Kentucky, that suffered water damage in a rainstorm was not entitled to coverage of its $1.3 million claim where it waited 12 days to notify its insurer of the loss.

By FC&S Legal Director Esq. Steven A. Meyerowitz

4 minute read