Paul P. Bolus

Paul Bolus has been representing insurance company clients for more than 29 years, litigating and managing over 200 cases in federal and state venues across the country. Paul has taken on multimillion-dollar cases, including class action lawsuits, regularly representing insurance companies in litigation dealing with health and life issues in just about every context, including major medical, specified disease, cancer, heart, stroke, disability, life insurance, long-term care insurance, securities, annuities, STOLI, department of insurance complaints and litigation, unfair consumer trade practices, deceptive trade practices and agent accounting litigation.

Firm/Organization: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

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Can There Be Implicit Waiver of Attorney-Client Privilege in Insurance Bad Faith Actions? South Carolina Supreme Court Answers That Question

By Paul P. Bolus & Laney Gifford

July 17, 2019

In June, the South Carolina Supreme Court addressed waiver of the attorney-client privilege in bad faith refusal to provide coverage cases and found that, under South Carolina law, an insurer that asserts its subjective understanding of the law, as informed by counsel, as a defense to a bad faith claim may implicitly waive the privilege with respect to those attorney-client communications. In In re Mt. Hawley Insurance Company, the insured sued its excess commercial…

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South Carolina Supreme Court Says “No” to Binding Non-Signatories to Arbitration Clause

By Paul P. Bolus & Laney Gifford

May 9, 2019

The Supreme Court of South Carolina recently determined that non-signatory insureds could not be compelled to arbitrate their claims under an arbitration clause in an agency agreement where the insureds did not obtain a direct benefit from that agreement. In Wilson v. Willis, the court considered 14 lawsuits that had been filed against an agent, the insurance broker who hired her, their insurance agency (Southern Risk Insurance), and six insurers for which their office…

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Alabama’s Act Aimed at Prohibiting Financial Abuse of Elders – Should It Be Expanded to Cover Insurers and Insurance Agents?

By Paul P. Bolus & Darrell C. Tucker II

September 5, 2018

Alabama’s Elder Abuse Act attempts to protect financial abuse of elders. But by not including insurance companies and insurance agents, does the Act go far enough? Following up on the blog post from late June concerning the intersection of elder abuse laws and long-term care litigation, this post concerns an Alabama statute aiming to prevent financial abuse of elders in the financial advisory context: “Protection of Vulnerable Adults from Financial Exploitation Act,” Ala. Code § 8-7-170,…

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Long-Term Care and Elder Abuse: Do They Intersect?

By Paul P. Bolus, Ann Phelps Hill & Darrell C. Tucker II

June 25, 2018

In at least one state, California, the answer to the question of “Do issues related to long-term care and elder abuse intersect?” is yes. The California Welfare and Institutions Code defines “financial abuse” of an elder adult to include an “entity” depriving an elder adult “of any property, including by means of an agreement, donative transfer, or testamentary bequest, regardless of whether the property is held directly or by a representative of an elder or dependent…

Paul P. Bolus

Can There Be Implicit Waiver of Attorney-Client Privilege in Insurance Bad Faith Actions? South Carolina Supreme Court Answers That Question

South Carolina Supreme Court Says “No” to Binding Non-Signatories to Arbitration Clause

Alabama’s Act Aimed at Prohibiting Financial Abuse of Elders – Should It Be Expanded to Cover Insurers and Insurance Agents?

Long-Term Care and Elder Abuse: Do They Intersect?

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