Century 21 Sells $175 Million Covid Claim Insurers Won’t Pay December 2, 2020 By Jeremy Hill There’s an unusual asset up for grabs in Century 21 Stores’ going-out-of-business sale: a stake in its long-shot legal fight...
Insurers Win Most — But Not All — Covid Business-Loss Lawsuits November 30, 2020 By Jef Feeley and Katherine Chiglinsky In the multibillion-dollar fight over insurance coverage for pandemic-related business losses, a Florida gynecologist succeeded where more than a dozen...
Viewpoint: J.S. Held CEO Refutes ‘Claims Surrogate’ Label October 22, 2020 By Jonathon Held William F “Chip” Merlin is both a nationally known and a respected advocate for policyholders who raises timely issues in...
Viewpoint: Be Like Mike and Look to Fundamentals to Recover COVID-19 Losses May 29, 2020 By Greg Van Houten and Mike Scanlon Michael Jordan, the National Basketball Association icon, once said, “get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do...
3rd Circuit Revives Some of Manufacturer’s Claims Against Insurers September 17, 2019 By Jim Sams Sapa Extrusions purchased 28 insurance policies from eight carriers, but not one of them would reimburse the manufacturer for the...
Virginia High Court: Auto Maintenance Exclusion Means What it Said May 20, 2019 The Virginia Supreme Court ruled that an insurer doesn’t have to pay for injuries to a customer who was injured...
Federal Judge Says Wording in Acuity Policy is Ambiguous October 24, 2016 A recent ruling by an Illinois federal judge against Acuity Mutual Insurance Co., found that the use of the word...
What a Difference the Word ‘Accident’ Makes in Sexual Assault Coverage Cases May 8, 2015 By Richard B. Wolf, Esq. Disparate coverage results for sexual assault claims turned on a one word difference in “personal injury” policy definitions in Gonzalez...
Non-Covered Claims May Exhaust Primary Limits, Trigger Umbrella July 2, 2014 By Burke Coleman A recent ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals clarified that an umbrella policy may be triggered even when...