Latest Posts › Insurance Litigation

Share:

District of Rhode Island Applies Follows Eighth Circuit Rationale as Law of the Case to Allow Claim for Insurance Bad Faith to...

Columbia Casualty Company v. Ironshore Specialty Insurance Company, No. 15-197, 2019 WL 2176306 (D.R.I. May 20, 2019) - In a dispute between two insurers arising from the once-largest medical malpractice award in Rhode...more

Not in Time: Complaint Remanded Where Insurer "Should Have Known" That the Amount in Controversy Exceeded the Jurisdictional...

After their living room ceiling collapsed, Heather and David Hutchinson submitted a claim for approximately $25,000 in damages to State Farm Fire & Casualty Company under their homeowners' policy. State Farm denied the claim...more

Insurer's Failure to Conduct a "Proper Forensic Investigation" Before Denying Coverage for Destroyed Poultry House Not Bad Faith

After heavy snow destroyed a Slaubaugh Farm poultry house in Delaware, the farm called on its insurer to cover its loss. After its claim was denied, the farm sued the insurer, alleging bad faith denial of coverage under...more

Judge in Western District of Pennsylvania Agrees that Insured’s Material Misrepresentations Warrant Dismissal of his Bad Faith...

American Nat'l Prop. & Cas. Co. v. Felix, No. 3:16-CV-147, 2018 WL 1747697 (W.D. Pa. Apr. 11, 2018) - When a fire destroyed defendant Daniel Felix’s home, he sought coverage under his American National homeowner’s...more

In Alabama, An Insurer’s Refusal To Honor $220,000 Scriveners Error Does Not Amount To Bad Faith

In anticipation of his mother’s death, a son called Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife) to request a copy of his mother’s life insurance policy, which he knew existed, but had never seen. A MetLife representative...more

Evidence of an Insurer’s Post-filing-of-litigation Conduct is Admissible in Iowa and Can Be Probative of Bad Faith

After a 2011 tornado damaged two buildings on its premises in Iowa, B&F Jacobson Lumber & Hardware, L.L.P. (“B&F”) submitted a property damage claim to its insurer, Acuity, A Mutual Insurance Company (“Acuity”). In response...more

6 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide