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Friday, December 2, 2016 |
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Industry news, expert analysis, and daily updates on the most significant insurance coverage legal developments—from the insurance and legal experts of The National Underwriter Company.
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Automobile Insurance
Montana Supreme Court Reverses $1.46 Million Bad Faith Judgment Against Insurer
The Montana Supreme Court has reversed a $1.46 million bad faith judgment against an automobile insurance company, ruling that it had a reasonable basis to condition its payment of policy limits on resolution of medical payment liens. Read More
Automobile Insurance
Also Not a Car: A Scissor Lift. And, Also No Coverage.
Just a day after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed that an insurance policy excluded a box truck from the definition of “auto,” precluding coverage, a federal district court in Missouri has reached the same result with respect to a different item. Read More
Workers Compensation
Workers’ Comp Insurer May Not Assert Malpractice Action Against Injured Worker’s Law Firm, Appeals Court Rules
An appellate court in Massachusetts, affirming a trial court’s decision, has ruled that a workers’ compensation insurance company could not proceed with a malpractice action against the law firm retained by the injured worker. Read More
Exclusions
Exclusion Barred Coverage for Contaminated Beef, Nebraska Federal Court Decides
A federal district court in Nebraska has ruled that the presence of Escherichia coli in beef products rendered the food unfit for consumption and, therefore, met the ordinary, unambiguous definition of “contamination” for purposes of an insurance policy’s contamination exclusion. Read More |
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In the States
Washington Dentist Ordered to Stop Selling Dental Insurance Plans
The Washington Insurance Department has ordered Dr. David Ford, a dentist in Renton, Washington, to stop selling what it characterized as an illegal dental insurance plan. Read More
In the States
California Insurance Department Orders State Farm to Reduce Homeowner and Rental Rates and Issue Refunds
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has ordered State Farm Insurance Company to reduce its dwelling insurance rates by an average of 7.0 percent. Read More |
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| Emergency Physicians Urge President-Elect Trump to Address Insurance Coverage Gaps Faced by Emergency Patients Read More |
Clueless About the C.L.U.E. Database, Survey Finds Read More |
U.S. Insurers May Benefit From Trump Deregulation, Fitch Says Read More |
PIA Calls for Repeal of Federal Insurance Office Read More |
More Than 20 Million Children in U.S. Lack Sufficient Access to Health Care, Report Says Read More |
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Victoria Prussen Spears, ESQ.
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Mitchell J. Auslander, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Carrie Cope, Cope Ehlers, P.C.
Anjali C. Das, Wilson Elser
John F. Finnegan, Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Michele L. Jacobson, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Timothy P. Law, Reed Smith LLP
Cort T. Malone, Anderson Kill, P.C. |
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Richard D. Milone, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Joseph P. Monteleone, Rivkin Radler LLP
Anne M. Murray, Rivkin Radler LLP
Jerold Oshinsky, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP
Seth B. Schafler, Proskauer Rose LLP
Thomas F. Segalla, Goldberg Segalla
David D. Thamann, The National Underwriter Company |
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