In recent days, we have been watching a disaster play out in Texas. A blast of arctic air that plunged south caused natural gas and oil pipelines to freeze, interrupting the supply of fuel to power plants, and ultimately causing a massive blackout across the state.
The mother of an 11-year-old boy who died after they lost electricity and heat in their Texas mobile home during last week’s freeze has filed a $100 million lawsuit against two power companies for gross negligence.
The judge presiding over the Boys Scout of America bankruptcy is weighing a request by insurance companies for permission to serve document requests on 1,400 people who have filed sexual abuse claims and to question scores of them under oath in an effort to determine whether there is widespread fraud in the claims process.
Can the COVID-19 virus cause ‘direct physical loss’ to an insured business thus triggering coverage under a commercial business interruption policy of insurance?
A Minnesota federal judge sided with an insurer in a dispute with Target Corp related to settlements over its 2013 data breach, finding the retail company didn’t meet the burden for showing coverage under its insurance policies.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2) requires retained expert witnesses to provide an expert report which gives ‘a complete statement of all opinions the witness will express and the basis and reasons for them.’
A South Florida restaurant has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a federal district court’s ruling that the restaurant is not entitled to coverage under an ‘all risk’ commercial property insurance policy for lost income and extra expenses resulting from nearby road construction.
A Manitoba court decision ordering the province’s public auto insurer to pay a bad faith award of $350,000 serves as a cautionary tale to the industry that bad faith awards for mishandling a claim can be made even after a settlement is reached, according to legal experts from Clark Wilson LLP.
Live Nation is suing its insurance company for refusing to cover hundreds of millions in losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In a new lawsuit filed in California federal court on Jan. 29, Live Nation claims that Factory Mutual is refusing to honor the premium policy it sold the promoter despite language that communicable diseases like COVID-19 were covered.
As claims professionals, we start the dispute-resolution process by adjusting losses. We consider the insurance policy contract as well as state and federal laws when making decisions on what is owed and all factors that influence settlement. The claims process can end by settlement in negotiations, ADR, or trial.
The owner of a Chicago hotel has filed a lawsuit against Zurich American Insurance Company, accusing the insurer of wrongful and bad faith denial of insurance coverage.
Online cannabis advertising platform Weedmaps and a Southern California vape shop have been targeted with a wrongful death lawsuit in civil court by a mother who claims both are to blame in the shooting death of her son.
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ordered several insurance companies to pay the amount owed to a public transportation agency related to trains damaged during Hurricane Sandy in 2012.<br /><br />The insurers are on the hook for about $300 million in payments, to cover for the remaining amount owed to the train operator.<br /><br />NJ Transit, the operator of the trains, had parked 343 locomotives and rail cars from its Meadowlands Maintenance Complex in Kearny prior to Sandy hitting the region. During a previous court proceeding, the agency had argued that the facility had not flooded in the past, hence it left the trains there.
