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Mastering the Blue Ridge Settlement Reservation of Rights, Part 2

A valid Blue Ridge reservation of rights requires more than the initial reservation of rights that warns the insureds that a later settlement payment may become subject to a reimbursement claim. In addition to that initial reservation of rights letter, …

Mastering the Blue Ridge Settlement Reservation of Rights, Part 1

For decades, California insurers have been told they have a duty to accept reasonable settlement demands within their policy’s limits. As the California Supreme Court emphasized in Johansen v. Cal. State Auto. Assn. Inter-Ins. Bureau, 15 Cal.3d 9, 16 (1975), …