In a case that has drawn the attention and alarm of national industry groups, the Colorado Supreme Court considered this week whether state law allows people to sue insurance claims adjusters personally for delaying or denying payments.
The sharing economy has grown exponentially in a short period of time. Ride-hailing platforms like Uber and Lyft, and car-sharing platforms like Turo, control a significant part of the sharing economy space.
Businesses that operate brick-and-mortar storefronts are likely well aware of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act and its prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability in places of public accommodation.
From whether COVID-19 is reimbursable to developments in medical marijuana’s compensability, it has been a busy year for workers’ comp decisions at both the state and federal level.
Justices on Massachusetts’ top court on Friday questioned why it should diverge from courts nationally that have found businesses are not entitled to insurance coverage for losses caused by COVID-19 as it heard an appeal by three restaurants.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans became the eighth federal appeals court Wednesday to rule that a policyholder was not entitled to COVID-19 business interruption coverage, in a lawsuit filed by two barbeque restaurants.
A major lawsuit in the collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium building that killed 98 people will go to trial in March 2023, a judge said Wednesday.
The NHL and 20 of its teams claimed to have lost over $1 billion over the COVID-19 pandemic, and they’re suing five of their insurance providers for reimbursement.
Social inflation remains a top challenge facing insurers in the realm of claims. Social inflation is, at its core, a shift in societal mentality; and is often driven by generational perceptions of fairness, including how jurors view litigants and their ability to absorb the attendant risk and cost of litigation.
A U.S. judge on Monday ordered mediation in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy, calling for the company, the Sackler family members that own it and nine states to determine whether they can reach a new opioid litigation settlement by Jan. 14.
Nearly 60 lawsuits against Society Insurance suffered a fatal blow this month when a federal appeals court tossed pandemic-related claims for business-income interruption benefits against four other insurance companies, Society’s lawyers at Crowell & Moring and Purcell & Wardrope said in a Monday-night filing in federal court in Chicago.
The owner of a bar in the popular ‘Barmuda Triangle’ on Hilton Head Island says he was forced to shut down because of lawsuits stemming from the devastating Hilton Head bridge crash that killed three people in May.
