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Coverage Dispute
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Zalma on Insurance
Pointing a Gun at a Person is not an Accident
By Barry Zalma
Occurrence Must be an Accident See the full video at https://rumble.com/v1pm7d4-occurrence-must-be-an-accident.html and at https://youtu.be/f9YnvjJKOU0 Beverly Weathersby appealed the trial court’s order awarding summary disposition under MCR 2.116(C)(10) to plaintiff, Meemic…
Zalma on Insurance
New York Court Slaps Insurers Who Subrogated Against Their Own Insureds
By Barry Zalma
Not Nice to Subrogate Against Your Own Insured See the full video at https://rumble.com/v1ktd3f-new-york-court-slaps-insurers-who-subrogated-against-their-own-insureds.html and at https://youtu.be/YEpi5Yi8GBY Zurich American Insurance Company (“Zurich American”) and American Zurich Insurance Company (“Zurich”) sued…
Zalma on Insurance
Federal Insurance Company Regrets Agreement to Pay Insured and Resolve Coverage Dispute Later
By Barry Zalma
Attempt to Avoid Reimbursement of Excess Insurer Fails See the full video at https://rumble.com/v1kazdh-federal-insurance-company-regrets-agreement-to-pay-insured-and-resolve-cove.html and at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63A3OgXTmnc No Good Deed Goes Unpunished In Western World Insurance Company v. Federal Insurance…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Pictures Explain Why There Is Coverage and State Farm Will Face Bad Faith at Trial
By Chip Merlin
Pictures can speak a thousand words. In a coverage decision finding for the policyholder, those photos may speak hundreds of thousands of dollars. The basic facts of the case were…
Southern California Appellate News
Gourmet appeals
Law360 has Blown Deadline Shouldn't Doom Virus Suit, Attys Tell 9th Circ. -- "Counsel for California eatery the French Laundry asked the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to reconsider the dismissal of its…
Zalma on Insurance
Who’s on First? Employer’s Insurer While Driving Home
By Barry Zalma
Trucker Driving to his Home Where Truck is Garaged is Still Working for Employer INSURERS SHOULD AVOID LITIGATING OVER WHO INSURES WHAT It should be axiomatic that insurers who both…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Insurers Cannot Escape Appraisal Arguing Factual Determinations of Damage Create Coverage Issues
By Chip Merlin
Merlin Law Group attorneys Chris Mammel and Tamara Chen-See won an appraisal case pending before the 10th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.1 The court ruled that the factual determination of…
Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog
Prison Break: Insurer Seeks to Escape Coverage for Suit Tied to “El Chapo”
By Lawrence J. Bracken II, S. Alice Weeks
In an appeal to the Ninth Circuit, a private equity firm has asked the court to reverse an order finding there was no coverage for a suit alleging it concealed…
Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog
Grammatical Imprecision Continues to Fuel Coverage Disputes
By Patrick M. McDermott, Casey L. Coffey
Even an insurance practitioner’s grandmother would agree that an omitted comma can have dire consequences: compare “Let’s eat grandma with “Let’s eat, grandma.” Yet, to the possible dismay of grammar…
Insurance Law Hawaii
Kona Coffee Distributor’s Coverage Case Transferred from Washington to Michigan
The insured's coverage suit seeking the defense and indemnity of the underlying action pursued by Kona coffee growers was transferred from the Western District of Washington to the…