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Daily Business Review

Despite Tort Reform, Marshall Dennehey Keeps Expanding Work with Insureds in Florida

"When the tort reform was percolating, I was already out there looking for folks to be sure that we can properly service our clients," said Alan Nash, shareholder at Marshall Dennehey in charge of its Fort Lauderdale casualty group. "We see litigation continuing to trend upward."
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Miami Lawyers Get $16.7M Against Florida insurer—Now They Want $20M More

"We went in and did this form of alternative dispute resolution, ... and they said, 'We're not paying. We want to present our defenses,'" plaintiff counsel said about Heritage Property and Casualty Co.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Fraudulent Injury Lawsuits and Unnecessary Surgeries Exposed in Trip-and-Fall Scheme

Personal injury attorney George Constantine and orthopedic surgeon Andrew Dowd were convicted by a Manhattan federal jury late last year for knowingly profiting from a massive $31 million trip-and-fall accident scheme.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

Change to Florida Insurance Law Shortened the Window for Insurance Claim

"Silence, in the face of a clear statute that cuts the other way, will not do," Florida Supreme Court Justice John Couriel ruled.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

2 Errors Might Have Helped Curb a 'Cottage Industry' Allegedly Targeting Insurers

"This has become a real cottage industry," attorney Joshua Seth Beck said. "The carriers get more lawsuits from AQA Kidwell than pretty much anybody else."
5 minute read

Law.com

BOK Financial Sues Continental Insurance, Seeking More Than $7M in Coverage for ATM Thefts

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Second Circuit Weighs In On Other Insurance and Additional Insured Dispute

In Amerisure v. Selective, the Second Circuit held that the subcontract terms governed the additional insured question while the other insurance clauses in the insurance policies governed the priority dispute.
8 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Connecticut Supreme Court Takes on Novel Interpretation of Statute

"There is no statute of limitations barring originality in statutory construction, and it may be possible that the plain meaning of § 7-433c has been hiding in plain sight for the past seventy years," Justice Ecker wrote in his dissent. "But the sheer novelty of the defendant's claim, particularly against a background of settled expectations, suggests to me that we should approach its legal theory with great caution."
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Changing How We Look at Structured Settlement Transfers

In my March article, I wrote about the Cordero case, which remains well-known in the relatively small and insular structured settlement industry. Lujerio Cordero had sold, in six separate transactions, the majority of his guaranteed income streams from a structured settlement annuity to third-party factoring companies.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Late-Session Flurry of Bills Approved by NY Lawmakers Includes Easing Appeals of Insurance Claims

A measure to ease insurance claims for serious personal injury was OK'd over the objections of those who said it would creat a "fourth bite at the apple."
6 minute read

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