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In Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Naze, No. 4D2024-0098 (Fla. 4th DCA June 4, 2025), the Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed a jury verdict in favor of the insured, holding that the trial court improperly...more
Join Goldberg Segalla partners Brady Yntema and Jeff Matty for an interactive webinar discussing critical issues facing insurers when presented with a time-limited, policy-limits demand to settle third-party liability claims...more
In Columbia Casualty Co. v. State Auto Mutual Insurance Co., the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded, under Ohio law, that a demand letter to a general liability insurance carrier’s insured containing allegations of bad...more
In El Dueno, LLC v. Mid-Century Insurance Company (2025 WL 1540329) (10th Cir. 2025)), the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgement on behalf of the insurer on the basis that the insurer did not act in bad...more
In Texas, bad faith claims arising under the Texas Insurance Code or the common law are routinely asserted by plaintiffs in first-party insurance disputes. While these causes of action are frequently pled, mere disagreement...more
In a recent COVID-19 Washington State insurance bad faith case, Tulalip Tribes of Washington v. Lexington Ins. Co., Division I of the Washington Court of Appeals affirmed Washington’s stance holding lost physical use of...more
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. An age-old adage that now provides critical guidance for insurers seeking to protect themselves in the face of bad faith failure to settle claims....more
In Jackson v. Spinnaker Insurance Company, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania considered a homeowners insurance coverage dispute, ultimately finding that questions of residency and...more
This alert begins our series discussing legal issues related to the Southern California wildfires. We will continue to provide updates as more information becomes available. Due to the high risk of wildfires in California,...more
An owner, general contractor (GC) and subcontractor (Sub) were sued by injured workers at a construction site, and they were defended by the Sub’s insurer, U.S. Specialty Insurance Company. U.S. Specialty tendered their...more
In Farage v. Associated Ins. Mgt. Corp., 2024 N.Y. Slip Op. 05875 (Nov. 26, 2024) (here), the New York Court of Appeals examined the enforceability of an insurance contract’s two-year suit limitation period. In a 4-3...more
In this episode of “Don’t Take No for An Answer,” Eric Jesse, partner in Lowenstein Sandler’s Insurance Recovery Group, is joined by Alexander B. Corson to discuss bad faith in insurance claims. Highlighting a recent example...more
In Alabama Municipal Insurance Corp. v. Munich Reinsurance America Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama addressed whether, under Alabama law, “reinsurance falls within the limited category of...more
Insurer bad faith may take many forms. While policyholders are sometimes familiar with the quintessential bad faith fact pattern – a liability insurer’s failure to settle within policy limits – the New York Appellate Division...more
There must be something in the water or the plaintiff’s bar just had a conference where the keynote speaker addressed strategies for putting pressure on insurers by issuing time-limited demands (“TLD”) because we have been...more
The start of 2024 marked the end of an insurance era in Oregon. On December 29, 2023—the last Friday before the new year—the Oregon Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in Moody v. Oregon Community Credit Union,...more
Ohio presents unique challenges to practitioners handling insurance claims in the state. Join Goldberg Segalla partners Michael A. Hamilton and Sean P. Hvisdas as they host a live, interactive webinar on some of the most...more
Lewicki v. Grange Ins. Co., 8th Dist. Cuyahoga No. 112705, 2023-Ohio-4544 - The Eighth District Court of Appeals dismissed this complaint that alleged negligence and bad faith against an insurer and an agent after a...more
Pennsylvania presents unique challenges to practitioners handling insurance claims in the state. Join Goldberg Segalla partners Michael A. Hamilton, Colleen E. Hayes and Sean P. Hvisdas as they host a live, interactive...more
This is the third in a series of four articles analyzing recent changes to Florida law governing bad-faith claims in insurance coverage litigation. The changes were made in Senate Bill 2A and House Bill 837, which became law...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, applying New York law, has held that neither of two claims against an insured construction company fell within the scope of coverage under the company’s claims-made...more
Recently, in Security National Ins. Co. v. Construction Associates of Spokane, No. 20-167 (E.D. Wash. Mar. 24, 2022), a Washington federal court concluded that an insurer breached its duty to defend a party as an additional...more
Applying Minnesota law, the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota has denied an insured’s motion to amend its coverage litigation complaint to add a claim for bad faith, holding that coverage under the...more
The Northern District of Illinois has held that claims brought under the Illinois False Claims Act (“IFCA”) are not uninsurable as a matter of Illinois law. The insured, a telecommunications company with $2 million in...more
On March 14, 2022, the Colorado Supreme Court held that a bad faith cause of action does not accrue against an insurance company’s adjuster employee. This important decision affirms that Colorado’s claims adjusters cannot be...more