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February 14, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

An appellate court in Texas has affirmed a woman’s conviction for theft of property from an elderly person in a case that highlights the dangers of elder fraud.

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February 14, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

A Virginia court has affirmed a decision by the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission denying a claim for benefits by an employee who was injured after violating one of his employer’s safety rules – a violation that was captured on video.

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February 14, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

A Virginia court has upheld a decision by the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission calculating the “average weekly wage” of a professional football player who suffered a work-related injury in the contractual circumstances common to players in the National Football League (“NFL”).

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February 13, 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district court has ruled that a woman’s designation as beneficiary of her former husband’s life insurance policy was revoked by operation of New Jersey law as a result of the couple’s divorce.

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10 minute read

February 13, 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.

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16 minute read

February 13, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, affirming a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, has ruled that a pollution exclusion in a commercial general liability insurance policy precluded coverage of a claim by an employee who developed an occupational disease known as welder’s lung.

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February 13, 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.”

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14 minute read

February 13, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

A federal district court in Colorado has ruled that an insurance company that insured a houseboat did not have to cover the claim of a woman who said she had been severely injured by a powerboat while she was floating on a kayak tethered to the houseboat.

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18 minute read

February 11, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, affirming a district court’s decision, has ruled that an excess insurance policy that “expressly state[d]” that it was subject to exclusions in the underlying coverage was subject to an exclusion incorporated into the underlying policy through an endorsement.

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February 08, 2019 | FC&S Insurance

A woman injured in a livery vehicle in Manhattan has been awarded $100,000 in damages.

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