Lawsuit Against Law Firm Exposes Fee Sharing Agreement for Storm Claims Insurance defense attorneys say a pair of lawsuits filed by a law firm and a claims consulting business against a... Read More
Texas / South Central News Special Trustee Appointed to Assist Clients of Disgraced Law Firm The Louisiana Supreme Court appointed an attorney to take control of the “multitude of hurricane and storm-related” lawsuits filed in... Read More
LexisNexis: Auto Claim Severity Up 35% over Pre-Pandemic Rates Claim severity for both bodily injury and property damage increased by 35% since 2019, while collision claim severity has jumped... Read More
4th Circuit Finds Nothing Ambiguous About Bump-Up Exclusion Whether you call it an acquisition or a merger, the fact that Willis Group Holdings ended up controlling Towers Watson... Read More
Southeast News Fla. Appellant Claims ‘No-Work’ Light Duty is an Ex-Mod Ruse Most people will be familiar with the posters at workplaces noting the number of days since a lost-time work injury.... Read More
Southeast News Ala. Ct. Affirms Order to Return Injured Worker’s Psyche Records Malik Woodard asked his doctor not to look at records of the treatment he received from a psychologist while recovering... Read More
D&O Insurer Must Pay for Settlement in Drugmaker’s Kickback Case Federal Insurance Co. must pay the $10 million policy limit in a directors and officers policy issued to Astellas Pharma,... Read More
East News N.J. Appeals Court Rules War Exclusion Doesn’t Apply to NotPetya Attack Insurers may not use a war exclusion to deny coverage to Merck & Co. for a 2017 cyberattack blamed on... Read More
WSJ: Hedge Funds Investing in COVID Business-Interruption Claims Multiple hedge funds are making long shot bets on COVID-19 business-interruption claims, despite a long string of losses in state... Read More
2nd Lawsuit Filed Against MMA by Former Business Partners A company that provided hurricane-damage estimates to embattled McClenny Moseley & Associates says in a lawsuit filed Thursday that the... Read More