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By Alexander Lugo | March 23, 2023
"You're going to find these injured Floridians unable to find an attorney that's going to be willing to try and take on a case for them," personal injury lawyer George Palaidis said of the measure that's pending before the Florida Senate.
6 minute read
By Steve Hallo | March 23, 2023
The proposed change was sparked by a statewide double-digit rate increase by Allstate in 2022.
3 minute read
By Adolfo Pesquera | March 20, 2023
"The trial court below upended that settled decisional law by refusing to abate the litigation until (plaintiff) submits to an (examination under oath)," said the insurance carriers as relators.
5 minute read
By Colleen Murphy | March 20, 2023
In a published opinion, the Colorado Court of Appeals held that a district court erred in its denial of a defendant's motion for a directed verdict based on the economic loss rule and stated that the lower court incorrectly relied on two cases—neither of which preclude application of the economic loss rule to bar common law negligence claims involving willful and wanton conduct.
6 minute read
By Sandra K. Jones | March 16, 2023
There is an entire industry that has existed in our country for many years where personal injury victims and wrongful death survivors who settled tort cases by way of "structured" settlement (as opposed to an all-at-once lump sum) have sold or assigned their future structured settlement payment rights to third-party purchasers, at high interest rates, for what can end up as mere pennies on the dollar.
10 minute read
By Riley Brennan | March 15, 2023
A federal judge in Virginia court joined the ranks of other federal courts around the country on the issue of COVID-19 business interruption coverage, refusing to reconsider her previous ruling that the coronavirus did not cause "physical loss or damage" and declining to certify the question to the Virginia Supreme Court.
4 minute read
By Adolfo Pesquera | March 15, 2023
The $346,612 paid to Weaver was an unlawful taking by Weaver to the deprivation of Ryan and, thus, there is coverage under the Employee Theft provision of the policy, the Fifth District Court of Appeals found.
4 minute read
By Charles Toutant | March 14, 2023
"The way the courts are deciding these cases lately, they're just saying all these other courts have said there's no cause of action, so, clearly, there's no cause of action. I hope the Supreme Court doesn't do that," said insurance attorney Eugene Killian Jr.
5 minute read
By Allison Dunn | March 8, 2023
"We therefore conclude that the circuit court erred in finding the ELE inapplicable to Neice's action against Dana Mining. Under the language of the applicable ELE endorsement, we find that Neice's claim arises out of Mr. Neice's employment with 'any insured,' i.e., Mepco LLC, and the policy therefore excludes coverage for Neice's action against Dana Mining," Justice William R. Wooton wrote on behalf of the West Virginia Supreme Court.
5 minute read
By Michael A. Mora | March 7, 2023
"When it comes to insurance issues that are regulated by statutes, we have to operate pursuant to the plain, unambiguous language of the statute," Chad A. Barr, principal attorney at Chad Barr Law, said about the issue before the Florida Supreme Court.
3 minute read
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