By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | July 18, 2017
Dismissal of Personal Injury Action for Failure To Show Serious Injury Sustained Denied
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | July 14, 2017
Insurer Denied Injunction Barring MTA, NYCTA From Enforcing Performance Bond
By Russ Bynum | July 12, 2017
The civil trial of a railroad company accused of negligence in the 2014 death of a movie worker opened Tuesday with jurors watching video of the film crew fleeing a freight train moments before the fatal crash on a Georgia railroad bridge.
By Greg Land | July 7, 2017
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a more than $8.2 million judgment against Nationwide Insurance in a contentious and closely-watched traffic fatality case.
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | July 6, 2017
Parties' Conflicting Testimony Fails to Eliminate Fact Issues, Precluding Summary Judgment
By Greg Land | July 6, 2017
A $1 million settlement has been reached with the survivors of a disabled veteran who strangled to death when an apartment deck railing broke loose and trapped him in his wheelchair. But the parties are continuing to litigate, as the family and estate seeks $25 million from the apartment complex owner's excess coverage policy.
By Joseph D. Nohavicka | July 6, 2017
Joseph D. Nohavicka writes: In 2015, when the First Department handed down its decision in 'Burlington Insurance Company v. NYC Transit Authority', insurance law mavens noted that the court was continuing on a course of expansion of additional insured coverage. Recently, that course of expansion has reached its terminus at the Court of Appeals, which reversed the First Department by rejecting the argument that any additional insured obligation is owed under the language of the 'Burlington' endorsement at issue when the named insured is without fault.
By Evan H. Krinick | July 5, 2017
Insurance Fraud columnist Evan H. Krinick writes: There seems to be no limit to the kinds of schemes that people create to defraud insurance companies and, by extension, the public, through higher premiums. Now, however, the New Jersey Supreme Court has issued a unanimous decision that certainly will help to reduce insurance fraud in New Jersey—and that, if its reasoning is adopted by other jurisdictions, likely will have the same effect in states across the country.
By By Pamela D. Hans and Bruce Strong | July 3, 2017
The New Jersey Supreme Court has returned to the rule of free assignability of insurance assets and summarily remanded a case that had allowed assignment.
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 28, 2017
Patient Lacks Standing to Sue Insurer By Executing Assignment of Benefits to Doctor
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