AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 4: What to Do When Insurance Companies Deny Behavioral Health Claims
Best Practices for Negotiating Manuscript Exclusions
Coverage Issues Arising Out of Assault and Battery Claims
Long-Term Effects of Russia/Ukraine on Insurance
Mediating Complex Insurance Coverage Disputes Series Part 3 – Breaking the Log Jam
Cyberside Chats: There is a war in Europe. What does that mean for your cyber insurance policy?
Mediating Complex Insurance Coverage Disputes Series Part 2 – What Goes on in Mediation?
Mediating Complex Insurance Coverage Disputes Series Part 1 – Preparing For The Mediation
Out With a Bang: Current State of Play on Coverage for COVID-Related Losses
Settling a Claim: Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable
NGE OnDemand: The Importance of Timely Reporting Occurrences, Claims and Suits to Insurers with Paul Walker-Bright
Lowenstein’s New Insurance Recovery Podcast Series, “Don’t Take No for an Answer”
Ledgers and Law: Roadblocks Facing the Cannabis Industry
Subro Sense - The ABC's of RCV and ACV
WEBINAR: COVID-19 Insurance Coverage Class Actions
What to Do When Your Insurance Carrier Says No: How to Protect Yourself from Coverage Denials
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 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
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
In a timely reaffirmation of the Fifth Circuit’s 2007 ruling in Leonard v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co., a Louisiana federal court recently upheld the application of an insurance policy’s Anti-Concurrent Causation Clause (“ACC”)...more
The Court of Appeals of Georgia recently held that an insurer’s reliance on the report of an independent consultant creates a presumption that it did not act in bad faith in denying coverage. In Montgomery v. Travelers Home...more
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that, under Iowa law, an insurer is not liable for breach of contract or bad faith if its coverage decision was objectively reasonable at the time it was made. In Hallmark...more
Illinois does not recognize bad faith as an independent tort. In the first-party context, bad faith is a purely statutory construct which hinges upon whether an insurer’s conduct was “vexatious and unreasonable.”...more
In first-party breach of insurance contract actions, the parties oftentimes dispute whether the policyholder may seek damages that are not explicitly provided for in the policy, with the policyholder arguing such indirect...more
On January 21, 2021, the Supreme Court of Florida issued an important decision in Citizens Property Insurance Corp. v. Manor House, LLC, et. al., SC19-1394 (Fla. 2021), disallowing an insured to recover extra-contractual,...more
A federal district court has ruled that a third-party administrator’s professional liability policy does not afford coverage for a claim against the TPA arising from an excess judgment against the TPA’s...more
In a case in which Wiley represented the insurer, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, applying New York law, has held that three prior knowledge exclusions barred coverage under an...more
Last week, in Conte’s Pasta Co. v. Republic Franklin Insurance Co., a New Jersey federal court ruled that Republic Franklin Insurance Co. was obligated to indemnify Conte’s Pasta for the costs incurred defending against a...more
A federal district court in North Dakota recently granted an insurer’s motion to dismiss in Campbell Property Management LLC v. Lloyd’s Syndicate 3624, finding that both prongs of a “commingling exclusion” to coverage...more