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Recovery of Allocated Loss Adjustment Expenses in Property Subrogation Cases

Subrogating For More Than Your Insured’s Property Damage Property insurers along all lines could simplify their business practices and lower their overhead considerably by simply paying any and all property damages, claims, expenses and consequential damages alleged to have been …

Tips on Investigating Subrogation Claims Involving Adjacent Property Owners

Subrogating claims caused by adjacent property owners can be tricky, according to Michael Wallace, a season property subrogation attorney with New Jersey-based Stutman Law and Mark Suchecki, a consulting engineer with Plick & Associates. Wallace and Suchecki recently presented on …

Slumlord Subrogation: Subrogating Landlord/Tenant Property Losses

In the 2003 Miramax comedy Duplex, Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore are Brooklyn landlords to a pesky, rent-controlled tenant named Mrs. Connelly, played by Eileen Essell. Efforts to get rid of Connelly fail and the tenant’s careless actions cause a …

Vandalism, Fire Losses and the Doctrine of ‘Inferred Intent’

Property subrogation professionals routinely see cases involving fires caused by uninsured minors playing in buildings. Subrogation is the business of recovering money, not punishing delinquent children. Often carriers won’t pursue subrogation cases against uninsured minors for fear of throwing good …