Things are looking pretty rough for GEICO, as not only did the insurer recently suffer a data breach, but it was also discovered that the hackers responsible are using consumers’ compromised information to fraudulently apply for unemployment benefits.
Social inflation is a huge pain point in US liability insurance. It is a term used to describe the phenomenon of rising costs of insurance claims resulting from increased litigation, broader definitions of liability, more plaintiff-friendly legal decisions, and larger (sometimes nuclear) compensatory jury awards.
Last month, Florida lawmakers passed tort reform legislation by extending COVID-19 liability protection to businesses and health care providers, but Florida’s construction industry says they’re facing a form of lawsuit abuse that lawmakers failed to address.
In recent years, there have been changes across jurisdictions, expanding the scope of potential liability for bad-faith damages. In addition, there are challenges in navigating the continued erosion of the attorney-client privilege in bad-faith litigation.
Historically, the common law tort of public nuisance aimed to uphold community morals and address public health violations. Now, public nuisance has emerged as a central cause of action in some of the largest environmental and non-environmental claims facing the insurance industry, raising compelling coverage issues.
An excess D&O insurer had no obligation to contribute to Vizio’s settlement with its primary general liability insurer for liabilities arising from the Smart TV Litigation, a California federal district court has held.
Commercial liability clients do not have to settle personal injury lawsuits even if the defendants are perceived as having deep pockets, a recent Court of Appeal for Ontario ruling suggests.
To date, climate change-related litigation, and the resulting economic and environmental impacts, has been a tort with no successful path for private litigation.
Although American inventor and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin was not referring to insurance when he penned the famous words ‘time is money,’ today’s risk managers should take the expression to heart if they wish to reduce their companies’ claims costs.
An issue that often arises when an insurer is determining whether a policy provides coverage for bodily injury or property damage under a liability policy is the number of occurrences that may be triggered under the policy.
Eleven people were injured, two critically, when an elevated deck of a Tennessee waterfront restaurant collapsed during a birthday party group photo, authorities said.
Across California, property owners and their ‘burn bosses’ are setting fires. When the weather is cool, calm and wet enough, these planned forest fires are designed to clear overgrown vegetation that could accelerate a wildfire in dry months.
Seven people face criminal charges in Fargo for allegedly running a car insurance fraud ring where they crashed into each other’s vehicles and collected insurance money for profit.
On continuous environmental-injury cases, commercial liability insurers are being sued to pay hundreds of millions of dollars more than their proportionate share, and insurer bad faith is not the basis for the disproportionate liability in these cases.
