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Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Hurricane Damage Other Than Wind and Water?
When one thinks of hurricane related property damage, the most obvious cause of damage seems to be wind and water. A recent appellate decision from Louisiana dealt with a different…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Insurance Rates Go Higher With No Hurricanes?
By Chip Merlin
Amazing as it seems, one insurer plans to increase rates, even though we have gone years without a hurricane. As reported by Colodny, Fass, Talenfeld, Karlinsky & Abate, First Home Insurance requested a 39.3%…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Tension in the Tropics: Property Insurance Trepidation in Florida
By Chip Merlin
On Tuesday, Lewis Collins, of Butler Pappas, and I gave a speech titled, TENSION IN THE TROPICS: PROPERTY INSURANCE TREPIDATION IN FLORIDA, at the Annual Convention of the International Association…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Ordinance or Law–An Additional Coverage Available Under Many Florida Residential Policies
By Shaun Marker
Many residential insurance policies in Florida have additional coverage for “Ordinance or Law” or code upgrade coverage. I wanted to write about this additional coverage in the context of the…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Hurricane Watching on the Internet
By Chip Merlin
Guessing where a hurricane is heading is not an exact science. Those predictions are much better today than in the past due to better hurricane modeling. Via television, everybody can…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Texas Windstorm Insurer Settles 2,400 Hurricane Ike Slab Claims
By Chip Merlin
The Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula slab cases are settling. There was an agreement between the Texas attorneys that nothing would come out in the press until the clients signed…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Potential for serious weather heading into the gulf next week
Could anything be worse than the BP offshore drilling debacle that's turned into the worst natural disaster in U.S. history and will undoubtedly affect the economies of the gulf states…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Policyholders Do Not Always Win or Settle for Big Bucks
By Chip Merlin
The oil spill attorneys advertising for a mass of clients and recent advertisements in Texas regarding Hurricane Ike claims, seem to indicate that all my colleagues always win, and win big.…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
TWIA Texas Slab Depositions Get Started Today
By Chip Merlin
Today’s deposition of Professor William Spelman starts a series of depositions in the Texas slab cases involving TWIA. Several weeks ago, policyholder attorneys, including myself, met in Galveston to organize a…
Insurance Law Hawaii
Trial Court Errors By Ordering Appraisal Before Coverage Established
After the insureds' home was damaged by Hurricane Wilma, they filed a claim for reimbursement. Sunshine paid the claim and closed the file. See Sunshine State Ins. Co. v.…