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New Jersey Law Journal

Insurance Firms CMK, Kennedys Ink Transatlantic Merger

New Jersey-based Carroll, McNulty & Kull is merging with international insurance law firm Kennedys, leaders of both firms announced Thursday. The combination will form a nearly 1,000-lawyer firm that specializes in advising the insurance industry.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

11th Circuit Upholds Order Freeing Insurer from Legal-Mal Suit Costs

A legal malpractice insurer has been found not responsible for at least $7 million in legal expenses accrued defending a bankrupt law firm sued by an investment company whose manager was also a partner at the defendant firm.
11 minute read

Daily Business Review

11th Circuit Upholds Order Freeing Insurer from Legal-Mal Suit Costs

A legal malpractice insurer has been found not responsible for at least $7 million in legal expenses accrued defending a bankrupt law firm sued by an investment company whose manager was also a partner at the defendant firm.
11 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

New State Law Mandates Fertility Coverage for Same-Sex Couples

Gov. Chris Christie has signed legislation, spurred by a federal civil rights lawsuit, that will require insurance carriers contracting with the state to cover fertility treatments to women in same-sex relationships, and those in other nontraditional relationships.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Friedman v. AARP, Inc.

4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Assignments of Benefits and SB 1218

Two competing insurer-backed bills (SB 1038 and HB 1421) have yet to be heard. These bills would, among other limitations, bar assignees from collecting statutory attorney fees and institute a prevailing party fee component. The industry argues AOBs and 627.428 lead unscrupulous contractors and their attorneys to submit fraudulent or inflated claims, increasing premiums. SB 1218 directly addresses the issue by mandating that any 627.428 fees paid by a property insurer, "may not be used to justify a rate or rate change," writes Christine A. Gudaitis.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

New State Law Mandates Fertility Coverage for Same-Sex Couples

Gov. Chris Christie has signed legislation, spurred by a federal civil rights lawsuit, that will require insurance carriers contracting with the state to cover fertility treatments to women in same-sex relationships, and those in other nontraditional relationships.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Transportation Networks and Personal Injury Protection Benefits

The Young Laywers Advisory Board discussses a new law regulating companies like Uber and their handling of insurance issues.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. v. Dooner, PICS Case No. 17-0570 (C.P. Monroe County Aug. 23, 2016) Williamson, J. (9 pages).

By | April 28, 2017
Additional defendant insurance companies objected to joinder in civil action that defendant driver brought in case arising from defendant passenger's grabbing the steering wheel of defendant driver's car and causing an accident because there was no evidence that the parties to the homeowner's policy issued to the mother of defendant passenger ever explicitly intended to cover the present situation. Motion granted.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Arsdel v. Liberty Life Assurance Co. of Boston, PICS Case No. 17-0638 (E.D. Pa. March 30, 2017) Smith, U.S.D.J. (76 pages).

By | April 28, 2017
Insurer's denial of long-term disability benefits was arbitrary and capricious where insurer failed to consider insured's job requirements in determining how insured's "occupation" was performed in the national economy. Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment granted.
7 minute read

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