The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has held that communications from counsel for the buyer of a property concerning undisclosed contamination were sufficient to constitute a Claim against the Insured seller.
In 2017, a large insurance carrier challenged our law firm to significantly reduce its legal spending and cycle times without any material uptick in indemnity costs or compromise to the quality of legal services.
The Calgary Flames have filed a $125 million lawsuit against their insurance companies. The NHL team is seeking reimbursements for ‘massive losses’ it suffered due to the two hockey seasons that have gone by during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A 2019 ARCADIS Global Construction report determined that 30% of construction projects end in dispute. Any construction claims professional or construction attorney would argue that number is low.
The U.S. District Court in St. Paul has reconsidered its prior decision and ruled that Target Corp. can recover settlements it paid to banks in connection to a 2013 data breach under its general liability policy from its insurer, ACE American Insurance Company.
Insurers protecting Florida’s homeowners are going under. And it’s not the state’s infamous storms dragging the firms down -- it’s a deluge of lawsuits and fraud.
The first ever Hurricane Laura case heard by a federal court has ended in a decision against an insurance company and in favor of Joey Odem, the plaintiff who is the owner of a commercial property near Lake Charles’ Petro Point.
A recent federal court ruling holding that a migrant farm worker’s death from COVID-19 fell within the scope of workers compensation law is part of a growing body of rulings that bar liability lawsuits related to the pandemic against employers.
An insurer is not obligated to defend or indemnify a landscaping company for a catastrophic landslide that occurred at homeowners’ properties under a policy exclusion, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in affirming a lower court ruling.
"What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.’ This line is said to Paul Newman’s titular character in the 1967 film ‘Cool Hand Luke.’ It’s often used in popular culture today to refer to when two sides have reached an impasse in their discussions.
A $38.5 million settlement has been reached between the builders of a bridge over the 91 Freeway in Corona and nine workers injured when part of the structure collapsed in 2015.
I moderated a panel at the American Bar Association Mid-Winter Conference in New Orleans this past week. Our topic was concerning delays in treatment of compensable claims, with a look at the causes and consequences regarding both expense and outcomes for the industry.
A Florida appellate court on Wednesday ruled that an airport worker was not entitled to benefits for an injury that happened while walking through the terminal to a shuttle bus stop.
The claim file is the backbone of most insured losses and one of the first things that many claimants request when litigation starts. Nevada’s Court of Appeals recently decided a case that concerned discovering surveillance video contained in a claim file.
On March 1, 2022, the Northern District of Illinois issued an opinion in Citizens Insur. Co of Am., & Hanover Insur. Co. v. Thermoflex Waukegan, LLC, 20-CV-05980, 2022 WL 602534 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 1, 2022) addressing whether insurance coverage existed for an employer with respect to its employee’s claims of violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
