Bad-faith litigation between an insurer and its insured often sparks privilege disputes, typically over disclosure of the insurer’s claims file. Now a less-litigated insurer–insured privilege dispute has reached the Florida District Court of Appeals: whether an insurer’s affirmative defense—that the insured was unwilling to settle the underlying claim—waives the insured’s

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Todd Presnell is a trial lawyer licensed in Georgia and Tennessee who represents major corporations, small businesses, governmental entities, tax-exempt organizations, and individuals in litigation matters. His experience includes product liability cases in the automotive, equipment-manufacturing, food-product, and manufactured housing industries; employment-discrimination cases…

Todd Presnell is a trial lawyer licensed in Georgia and Tennessee who represents major corporations, small businesses, governmental entities, tax-exempt organizations, and individuals in litigation matters. His experience includes product liability cases in the automotive, equipment-manufacturing, food-product, and manufactured housing industries; employment-discrimination cases for small, privately held companies and multinational corporations; disputes over non-compete and non-solicitation agreements; litigation over trade-secrets violations, contract and other disputes involving healthcare companies; fiduciary-duty disputes involving corporate directors and officers; trust-related litigation; and business tort claims