Steven A Meyerowitz Esq

March 31, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has ruled that an insurer's advertising slogan – “like a good neighbor, State Farm is there” – was “puffery” and an insured could not claim that it amounted to a misrepresentation of material fact sufficient to support a fraud claim against the insurer.

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

9 minute read

March 08, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

A case that might otherwise have been considered a rather run-of-the-mill insurance coverage dispute instead has turned into an important story about a Texas trial court's imposition of sanctions on an insured's attorney for sending an email – and of the appellate court decision upholding those sanctions.

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

32 minute read

February 27, 2017 | The Recorder

This is the story of how Rodrigo Rodriguez, who was born in Mexico and who worked in the fields there as a young child, and who later immigrated to the United States, just litigated a landmark worker's compensation issue before the Idaho Supreme Court – and won.

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

40 minute read

December 28, 2016 | Law.com

A North Carolina court has affirmed a state agency's decision denying an employee's workers' compensation claim for injuries sustained at her employer's annual holiday party, concluding that the injury had not arisen out of or in the course of her employment.

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

9 minute read

March 21, 2013 | Inside Counsel

A federal district court has ordered an insurer to cover the loss suffered by a law firm in a check scam, finding that the loss fell within both the policys forgery and alteration endorsement and the policys false pretenses exclusion and that the policy therefore was ambiguous.

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

7 minute read