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Navigating the Legal Process After a Car Accident in Florida: Your Rights and Options

Being in a car accident can be a traumatic experience, particularly if there are serious personal injuries and/or significant damage to your car. Understanding the legal process in Florida is imperative to knowing your rights...more

Saul Ewing LLP

The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - April 2024

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This month’s Friday Five covers the treatment of job-related stress in assessing an attorney’s disability, the requirements surrounding the qualifications of a medical professional to review a claimant’s medical records in...more

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The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - March 2024

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This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to an alleged conflict of interest leading to discovery, two courts’ opposite treatments of subjective pain complaints, a decision that claims of fraud and misrepresentation were...more

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Eleventh Circuit: Disagreement Over Valuation Is Not Per Se Bad Faith

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A little more than one year after Progressive scored a bad faith win in Eres v. Progressive American Ins. Co., 998 F.3d 1273 (11th Cir. 2021), Progressive came away with another victory in Deary v. Progressive American Ins....more

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Case Study: "Red Flags” in a Soft-Tissue MVA Claim

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The nurse reviewer in the following case study observed a pair of patterns in the medical records for a Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA) that helped to serve as mitigate points in favor for the insurance adjuster. This article...more

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THE ABC’S OF THE S.I.U.: What Providers Need To Know

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Medical record requests by payors are commonplace for health care providers. Typically, these requests are received by a front desk employee who responds to the inquiry in short order. Yet, not all requests should be treated...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Massachusetts PATCH Act, Requires Additional Protection for Certain Confidential Health Care Information

Earlier this year, Governor Charlie Baker signed into law an Act to Protect Access to Confidential Healthcare (the PATCH Act), which prevents information regarding “sensitive health care services” from being shared with...more

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North Carolina Cases Involving Traumatic Brain Injuries

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A traumatic brain injury ("TBI") results from a specific traumatic event causing some type of damage to the brain. Such trauma could be the head being struck by an object or being jolted by a collision, or even having an...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2018 #3

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As of February 15, 2018, banks, insurance companies, and other financial services institutions and licensees regulated by the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) are required to file their first certification of...more

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NY DFS Issues Circular Letter Addressing Life Insurance Unfair Claims Settlement Practices During the Contestability Period

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On January 26 – in its first-issued circular letter of the year – the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) reminded life insurers doing business in the state that they can only contest claims following the death of...more

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Eleventh Circuit Clarifies “Permanency” Requirement under Florida Bad Faith Statute

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In Cadle v. GEICO Ins. Co., Case No. 15-11283 (11th Cir. Sept. 30, 2016), the Eleventh Circuit held that GEICO had not acted in bad faith when it failed to settle a claim after the insured did not provide any evidence of...more

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP

Eleventh Circuit Affirms Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict in UIM Bad Faith Case

On Friday, September 30, 2016, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed a renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law that had been granted by the Middle District Court of Florida in a uninsured/underinsured motorist...more

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Insurance Company Must Defend Against Data Breach Class Action, 4th Cir. Says

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On Monday, the Fourth Circuit held that Travelers must defend Portal Healthcare in a class action claim arising out of an alleged medical records data breach. The class action, filed in New York state court in April...more

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Purchasing Cyber Insurance? Important Considerations from the Recent Nossaman/ UCI Cyber Symposium

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On October 12, 2015, Nossaman and UC Irvine hosted a Cyber Symposium at the City Club in Los Angeles. The event included four panels of Nossaman lawyers, UCI professors, and private professionals who are experts in the areas...more

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Ninth Circuit Upholds Rescission of Life Insurance Policy and Rejects Novel Theories

This week the Ninth Circuit affirmed a grant of summary judgment in favor of USAA Life Insurance Company, holding that the insurer was entitled to rescind the policy under California law when it discovered that its insured...more

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