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TODAY'S TOP DEVELOPMENTS Thursday, January 2, 2014

 
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.

 CASE LAW

Trial Strategy
A Proof of Loss, and the Business Records Exception to the Hearsay Rule
The Rhode Island Supreme Court recently issued an interesting decision in a personal injury action involving the question of the admissibility of a proof of loss prepared after an automobile accident by an insured, who died before discovery and trial of the personal injury action. The decision by the Rhode Island Supreme Court offers important guidance on the business records exception to the hearsay rule when it involves insurance-related documents, and otherwise. Read More

Trial Strategy

Understanding the Direct Action Provision of Section 1332(c)(1) in Federal Lawsuits Against Insurers
To determine whether diversity of citizenship exists when a plaintiff sues an insurance company in federal court, one must consider the effect of 28 U.S.C. § 1332(c)(1), as a plaintiff learned in a recent case filed in the Eastern District of Michigan. Read More

Alternative Risk and Captives
Municipality's Post-Katrina Acts of Condemnation and Demolition Post-Katrina Were Not Multiple Occurrences, Circuit Court Holds
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, upholding a district court's decision, has ruled that a Louisiana government's multiple acts of condemning and demolishing structures within its jurisdiction after Hurricane Katrina amounted to a single occurrence or a series of related occurrences such that the government's insurance policies' $250,000 retained limit applied only once. Read More

Workers Compensation
Michigan Appeals Court Overrules 20 Year Old Decision and Concludes that Worker Who Did Not Meet All 3 Statutory Criteria Was an Employee
A Michigan appeals court has overruled a 1992 decision and has decided that all three of the statutory criteria in Section 161(1)(n) of the state's workers' compensation law had to be met before an individual worker could be "divested" of "employee" status. Read More

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 LEGISLATIVE/REGULATORY

Insurance Fraud

6 Charged with Filing More Than 1,000 False Windshield Repair Insurance Claims
Six individuals have been charged in California with filing more than 1,000 false insurance claims for windshield repair totaling nearly $100,000. Read More

Workers Compensation

California Business Owner to Serve 6 Years in Prison for Workers' Comp Premium Fraud and Is Ordered to Pay Millions in Restitution
Richard Lopez Escamilla Jr. has been sentenced by a California court to six years in prison for defrauding two insurance companies by underreporting employee payroll and unemployment insurance tax evasion. He also was ordered to pay restitution of nearly $4.2 million. Read More

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 INDUSTRY NEWS
Gerald B. Bushey Named President of Carolina Casualty Insurance Group Read More

Advantage Insurance Completes Recapitalization and Expands Board of Directors
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USA Risk Group Appoints Paul Macey President of Offshore Operations
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What's Wrong with Arbitration?
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More Than One Quarter of Americans Surveyed Would Consider Moving To Get Better Health Insurance
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60px_newMeyerowitz Steven A. Meyerowitz, ESQ.
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Carrie Cope, Schuyler, Roche & Crisham, 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
Donald S. Malecki, Malecki, Deimling, Nielander &
Associates, LLC
Cort T. Malone, Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C.
D. Milone, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Joseph P. Monteleone, Tressler LLP
Anne M. Murray, Rivkin Radler LLP
Jerold Oshinsky, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres &
Friedman LLP
Seth B. Schafler, Proskauer Rose LLP
David D. Thamann, The National Underwriter Company

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