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The Legal Intelligencer

Growing Trend: Increased Scrutiny of Auto Policy Exclusions

Exclusions in auto policies in Pennsylvania have recently undergone increased scrutiny by the Courts. At the forefront of this re-evaluation is the household exclusion. That exclusion bars recovery of uninsured (UM) and underinsured (UIM) motorist benefits where the claimant sustained injury while operating a household vehicle insured on other policy, typically the personal auto/motorcycle situation.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Personal Injury Insurance Coverage: Insuring Intangible Rights

This article discusses the broad scope of Coverage B, particularly for violations of intangible rights and intentional torts, which many businesses (and their attorneys) incorrectly assume are uncovered.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Policy Conditions, Requirements That Need to Be Met for the Coverage to Be Valid

This article briefly discusses these policy conditions, which may not be well known to insureds, so that a coverage assessment is limited to the merits of a claim and not a failure to satisfy policy conditions.
9 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Motorist Knocked Unconscious by Flying Rock on I-80 Reaches $750,000 Settlement

An uninsured motorist claim brought in Morris County yielded a $750,000 settlement on June 13 for a man injured when a rock crashed through his windshield…
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Courts Find Direct Repair Claims Not So Direct

Pennsylvania bad-faith lawyers are all too familiar with the tortured history and anticlimactic outcome of the Berg v. Nationwide case. In part because of the issues before the court and in part because the Pennsylvania Supreme Court did not reach a majority disposition, Pennsylvania's highest court did not issue a binding, precedential decision in Berg—leaving for another day the question of an insurance company's duties when repairing a vehicle damaged in an accident.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Practice Tips for Litigating Third-Party Bad Faith Insurance Claims

Third-party bad faith claims typically arise from a common fact pattern: an insured defendant, hit with an excess verdict because his insurer refused to make a reasonable settlement offer, assigns to the plaintiff the right to bring a bad faith claim against the insurer.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Two Decades Into Opioid Crisis, Insurance Coverage Questions Only Beginning to Find Answers

Beyond the devastating physical toll, the opioid epidemic has had severe economic consequences on the nation as well. A bipartisan congressional report issued earlier this year found that the opioid epidemic costs the United States roughly $1 trillion a year.
9 minute read

International Edition

Results Season: What the Early Numbers Tell Us

The early signs are that the UK legal industry is struggling to keep up, writes this week's London Lawyer, plus an insurance scandal that has sent shockwaves.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Calif. Federal Court Misreads General Liability Insurance's Duty to Defend

The California court's interpretation turns the duty to defend on its head by going beyond the words in the complaint to infer the plaintiffs' case theory, rather than construing defense coverage broadly to protect the policyholder.
7 minute read

Law.com

Citing 'Difficult Hurdle' of Predominance Requirement, Texas Appeals Court Reverses Class Certification in Life Insurance Case

"The predominance requirement prevents certification when complex and diverse individual issues would overwhelm or confuse a jury or severely compromise a party's ability to preset other viable claims or defenses," wrote the appellate panel.
5 minute read

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