January 6, 2023
After a job-site injury left independent contractor Ernest Guthrie paralyzed below the waist, two insurers for the contractor that hired him agreed to pay the full policy limits — $1 million each — only one month after receiving a payment …
August 22, 2022
Lloyd’s of London underwriters must pay more than $3 million in pre-judgment interest in addition to the $10 million the syndicate has already paid in damages for the wrongful acts of the former directors of a bank that was declared …
June 29, 2022
A Florida accident victim gets a second chance to compel an auto insurer to pay a $12.7 million judgment as a consequence of failing to respond to a $10,000 settlement offer, under a decision Tuesday by a federal appellate court. …
May 17, 2022
A federal appellate court threw out a Florida jury verdict that would have required a Liberty Mutual unit to pay $1.6 million in damages for failing to defend an independent insurance agency against a lawsuit that accused it of failing …
December 16, 2021
Darryl A. Vachon did not accuse Travelers of bad faith in handling his $25,000 uninsured motorist claim until after a jury found he had incurred $1,022,780 in damages. Because he didn’t, the insurer must now defend itself against a million-dollar …
September 8, 2021
National Trust Insurance Co. contends that a pollution exclusion in a policy it sold to an Alabama furnace-repair company excludes coverage for a wrongful death claim caused by carbon monoxide poisoning. The Indiana-domiciled carrier won’t be able to test that …
September 2, 2021
Another federal appellate court has ruled against a policyholder who sought coverage for business interruption losses caused by coronavirus restrictions, siding with the vast majority of federal judges in ruling that SARS-CoV-2 does not cause a direct physical loss or …
June 22, 2021
A woman pursuing a disability discrimination claim may depose senior executives at the insurance company that fired her, a federal appellate court ruled Monday, overturning a decision by federal judge in Alabama. Montgomery attorney Julian McPhillips said the 11th Circuit …
November 20, 2020
Insurers handling claims in Florida often feel like they are fighting an uphill battle to avoid bad faith lawsuits arising from the alleged failure of an insurer to act in good faith when settling a liability claim against the insured. …
September 29, 2020
More than eight years after Bonnie Winslett tore up and threw away a summons that notified her she was being sued, the Georgia Supreme Court is being asked to resolve questions of law that will determine whether GEICO Indemnity Co. …