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New York Law Journal

DFS Fines Insurers for Granting Religious Exemptions to Non-Religious Employers

A handful of insurance companies will now pay a collective fine of $509,000 after allowing the exemption for more than 30 entities that were not religious in nature, including a wood floor refinisher, a chimney cleaning service, a tax consultant and others.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

New Law Makes No Change in Broker Liability

An expert look at the effect two statutory amendments will have on the liability of insurance producers.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

DFS Continues Long History of Strongly Supporting Anti-Fraud Reg

Insurance Fraud columnist Evan H. Krinick writes: Nearly two decades ago, in 2001, New York state's insurance regulator promulgated a powerful anti-fraud regulation intended to require that a health care provider, as a condition of eligibility for no-fault reimbursement, be owned and controlled by licensed physicians and not by non-physicians who disguise their ownership and control and secretly siphon all profits away from the physician whose name appears on the license issued by the state. As DFS has once again just reiterated, a medical professional corporation (PC) is ineligible for no-fault insurance reimbursement if it fails to meet any condition of licensure, including the requirement of physician control.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

9 Charged in 'Elaborate' $600K Florida Home Insurance Fraud

"There's no blood, there's no weapons, no gun shot, no body, but this is nonetheless a very serious crime that affects every single one of us," said Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, announcing charges against nine Floridians for allegedly running a $600,000 insurance scam across the county.
3 minute read

The Recorder

9th Circuit Reverses Ruling That Demand Letter Was a Claim Asserting Wrongful Conduct

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed a district court's decision that a letter demanding payment of promissory notes was a claim asserting wrongful conduct by the insureds.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Jury Rejects Plaintiffs' Negligence Claim Over Grandfather's Swimming Pool Death

A California jury has ruled that a homeowners association was not negligent in connection with the death of a man in its swimming pool.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Old Dominion Insurance May Get Attorney Fees in Sinkhole Claim Lawsuit

The insurance company won an appellate court reversal on the timing of a settlement proposal.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Claim That Hacker Caused Nearly $1 Million Loss May Be Covered by Computer Fraud Insurance Policy

A federal district court in New Jersey has refused to dismiss a company's lawsuit against its insurer seeking to recover a nearly $1 million loss allegedly caused by a hacker.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Legislature Should Clarify No-Fault Insurance Rules

The effect of PIP coverage limits in court is not a minor issue but one that goes to the very heart of the legislative scheme.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Supreme Court Rewards Tortfeasor and Punishes Innocent PIP Victim

OP-ED: In 'Haines v. Taft,' the majority concluded that the innocent victim, rather than the wrongdoer, should be responsible for the unpaid medical bills incurred for the medical treatment of injuries caused by the wrongdoer.
5 minute read

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