Arson Investigations and the Pursuit of Bad Faith Claims April 4, 2025 By Melissa A. Segel Arson is a criminal act, but since the advent of insurance, arson has been used to “extort money from insurance...
What Chief Claims Officers Can Do About a Growing Trend of Alleged Bad Faith Claims March 26, 2025 By Heather H. Wilson In the past few years, we’ve seen a significant rise in bad faith claims against insurers in the U.S. According...
Georgia’s Latest Effort on Plaintiff Demands Aims to Deter Bad-Faith Claims April 3, 2024 By William Rabb Georgia lawmakers have approved two bills that could have a significant impact on windstorm and bad-faith claim losses for property...
Fla. Tort Reform Bill Aims to Pick Up Where Lawmakers Left Off March 1, 2023 By William Rabb Outside of insurance attorneys, plaintiffs’ lawyers and some doctors, few people in Florida may be familiar with what are known...
Viewpoint: Ariz. Ruling Sets Standard for Aiding and Abetting Bad Faith Claims September 30, 2022 By Patrick Gorman The Arizona Court of Appeals recently analyzed a question that often plagues the removal of an insurance bad faith case...
Worker Who Blames Carrier for Suicide Attempt Can’t Sue in Tort February 6, 2020 By Jim Sams An injured worker may not pursue a tort claim against a workers’ compensation carrier that he accuses of negligence by...
Washington Court Rules on Discoverability of Insurer’s Claim File by Third Parties February 21, 2018 By Steven Plitt In 2013 the Washington Supreme Court found that an insurance company’s claim file was presumptively not privileged in disputes between...
Tips on Handling the Latest Bad Faith Trends April 20, 2017 By Denise Johnson Institutional attack, reptile theory and rules of the road are three recent bad faith trends, according to Douglas Wood, partner...
Going on the Offensive in Defending Bad Faith Claims December 21, 2015 By David J. Oberly, Esquire, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin Effectively Limiting and Eliminating Bad Faith Claims by Leveraging Offensive, Aggressive Written Discovery Insurance bad faith claims are one of...
Florida High Court: Citizens Property Insurance Immune From First Party Bad Faith Claims December 8, 2015 By Steven Plitt In Citizen’s Property Ins. Corp. v. Perdido Sun Condominium Ass’n, Inc., 164 So.3d 663 (Fla. 2015), the Florida Supreme Court...