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Freeman Mathis Expands in California With Gilbert Kelly Merger

Atlanta's Freeman Mathis & Gary has sharply boosted its California presence through a combination with Gilbert, Kelly, Crowley & Jennett, a Los Angeles-based litigation defense firm with roots in four big legal markets: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and San Diego.
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Daily Report Online

Freeman Mathis Expands in California With Gilbert Kelly Merger

Atlanta's Freeman Mathis & Gary has sharply boosted its California presence through a combination with Gilbert, Kelly, Crowley & Jennett, a Los Angeles-based litigation defense firm with roots in four big legal markets: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and San Diego.
10 minute read

Daily Report Online

Even If State Farm Wasn't “Like a Good Neighbor,” Insured Couldn't Sue for Fraud, 11th Circuit Rules

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has ruled that an insurer's advertising slogan – “like a good neighbor, State Farm is there” – was “puffery” and an insured could not claim that it amounted to a misrepresentation of material fact sufficient to support a fraud claim against the insurer.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court of Appeals Clarifies Anti-Subrogation Rule

In their Corporate Insurance Law column, Howard B. Epstein and Theodore A. Keyes discuss 'Millennium Holdings', a decision issued by the Court of Appeals which clarified that, except for rare public-policy driven exceptions, in order for the anti-subrogation rule to apply, the party seeking the protection of the rule must be insured under the insurance policy.
22 minute read

New York Law Journal

State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Swizz Style, Inc.

By | March 30, 2017
Air Purifier's Swiss Designer Had Sufficient Contacts With N.Y. for Long-Arm Jurisdiction
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Park Taxi Corp. v. Baum

By | March 30, 2017
Insurer Denied Declaratory Relief on Claims For Reimbursement of No-Fault Benefits
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Meth Lab Seizure Breaks Bad for Homeowners Whose Insurer Won't Pay

Making meth may make for gripping television, but for a family whose rental property was vandalized and used to crank out methamphetamine, the bad breaks just kept getting worse.
12 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The Disparagement Dilemma: Insurance Coverage for the Defense and Indemnity of Product Disparagement Claims

For decades, retailers and all other kinds of companies have faced suits alleging breach of contract, unfair trade practices or tortious interference. For some lucky insureds, courts have found coverage for these lawsuits where they include allegations of product disparagement—a covered "personal and advertising injury" under typical commercial general liability policies.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

Genworth Life Ins. Co v. Dwaileebe

By | March 27, 2017
Incapacitated Man's 2012 Disclaimer Reducing Death Benefits Revoked, Deemed Null and Void
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Brown v. Everett Cash Mut. Ins. Co., PICS Case No. 17-0419 (Pa. Super. March 10, 2017), Lazarus, J. (19 pages).

By | March 24, 2017
Trial court erred in granting summary judgment on the issue of insurer's appraisal of the actual cash value of insureds' home where there was significant discrepancy between independent appraisal and insurer's actual cash value figure. Summary judgment reversed in part and affirmed in part.
7 minute read

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