There’s nothing that kicks off a summer holiday weekend like a good blockbuster battle and that’s what the courtroom showdown between the Walt Disney Company and Fireman’s Fund Insurance has all the potential to be.
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that, under Georgia law, an appraisal process tolled a commercial property policy’s two-year contractual suit limitation period even for non-covered claims.
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is considering dropping its previously agreed $650 million settlement with its insurer Hartford Financial Services Group, as sex-abuse victims oppose the agreement.
Leonard Riskin is a renowned law professor and ADR scholar who taught at the University of Missouri during the ‘90s. During this time, Professor Riskin set out to observe mediations and write about the work of people who call themselves ‘mediators.’
Kobe Bryant’s widow has agreed to settle a lawsuit against the pilot and owners of the helicopter that crashed last year, killing the NBA star, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others.
Adjusting and litigating claims has evolved for the digital age. As companies make the shift from paper files to the digital landscape, they are creating more information than they may think.
Inspecting the accident scene early and downloading black box data are among the tactics insurance lawyers use to defend ride share tort claims, lawyers suggested to A.M. Best Company Inc.
A home under renovation doesn’t mean it is ‘under construction,’ Ontario’s Appeal Court has ruled, rejecting an insurer’s interpretation of its home insurance policy exclusion.
A New Hampshire state court ruled largely in favor of a hotel chain Tuesday in a COVID-19 business interruption coverage lawsuit filed against a group of insurers.
The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey is considering a local rule requiring discoverability of third-party litigation funding (TPLF) agreements—but allows the plaintiff to self-describe the agreements.
An attorney’s mistake as to whether a client needed to answer counterclaims filed against it isn’t ‘excusable neglect’ justifying a late filing, the Fifth Circuit ruled Monday in a win for an insurance adjuster in a commissions dispute with his former company.
The Florida Supreme Court has given the proverbial ‘green light’ for insurance companies to sue attorneys for negligent representation of an insured. Historically, to bring an action against an attorney for legal malpractice in Florida, the party making the claim was generally required to allege and prove either a formal attorney-client relationship or privity of contract.
As Eileen Garczynski sees it, her firm’s recent survey of lawyers’ professional liability claims is definitely a good news/bad news type of situation – although that ‘good news’ part might change in the near future.
The Iowa Supreme Court recently reversed the appellate court’s denial of an insurer’s motion for a directed verdict, finding that United Fire did not breach the insurance policy and did not commit bad faith during a property appraisal.
