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Monday, May 22, 2017 |
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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
Florida Attorney "Uniquely Qualified" as Expert Witness in Insurance Bad Faith Case, Federal Court Says
A federal district court in Florida has rejected challenges to three proposed expert witnesses in an insurance bad faith case, stating that one— an attorney—was "uniquely qualified." Read More
Developments
What's Happening with: Settle and Sue
A number of courts across the country recently have issued decisions in cases involving an insured's settlement with an allegedly injured party, an insurer's offer of settlement, or its failure to make an offer, and resulting coverage litigation. Here are some of the articles about those decisions published in the Case Law Developments column of FC&S Legal. Read More
Professional Liability Insurance
N.J. Lawyer Fails in Bid to Require Insurer to Retroactively Provide Malpractice Coverage
An appellate court in New Jersey, affirming a trial court's decision, has ruled that a lawyer could not compel an insurance company to retroactively provide professional liability coverage to him. Read More
Fire Insurance
Policy Capped Insured's Recovery Where He Did Not Rebuild Fire-Damaged Home, Indiana Appeals Court Rules
An appellate court in Indiana has ruled that an insured could recover only the policy limit, and not a payment of up to 125 percent of the policy limit, for his fire-damaged home where he had not rebuilt his home as required by the policy to be entitled to the additional payment. Read More |
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Insurance Fraud
50 State Attorneys General Request Congressional Action on Health Care Fraud Recoveries
The attorneys general from all 50 states have written to Congress asking it to fix a "quirk in federal law" that, they said, prevented states from receiving equitable shares of health care fraud recoveries. Read More
Health Insurance
U.S. Intervenes in Second "Whistleblower" Suit Alleging UnitedHealth Mischarged Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Programs
For the second time in two weeks, the United States has filed a complaint against UnitedHealth Group Inc. alleging that the company knowingly obtained inflated risk adjustment payments based on untruthful and inaccurate information about the health status of beneficiaries enrolled in UnitedHealth's Medicare Advantage Plans throughout the United States. Read More |
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| Rivkin Radler Acquires Iseman, Cunningham, Riester and Hyde Read More |
New Accounting Standard Will Significantly Impact Insurance Industry, ACCA Says Read More |
Lieutenant General Stanley E. Clarke III Appointed Chairman of Armed Forces Insurance Read More |
FC&S Legal Publishes "An Insider's Look at Auto Liability Arbitration" Read More |
A Motorcycle Is Stolen Somewhere in the U.S. Every 11 Minutes Read More |
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Victoria Prussen Spears, ESQ.
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| FC&S Legal Editorial Advisory Board |
Mitchell J. Auslander, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
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
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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