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Ariz. County to Receive Nearly $20K in Class-Action Settlement
Jul 21 2005 // Yuma County, Arizona, will receive nearly $20,000 as its share of an $850 million class-action settlement with MMC Inc., a global insurance brokerage firm that was at the heart of an insurance scandal last year. The Board...
Jury Awards $700M in Damages in Executive Life Suit
Jul 21 2005 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi issued the following statement today in regard to the jury’s award of $700 million in punitive damages against Artemis S.A. for its participation in a conspiracy to defraud the...
Texas Jury Finds Humana HMO Liable in Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Jul 21 2005 // A local jury in San Antonio, Texas, on July 1 awarded $7.4 million in actual damages in a wrongful death lawsuit against the health maintenance organization Humana Health Plan of Texas Inc., a physician, and his physicians...
No. Idaho Grass Growers Agree to Settle Field-Burning Lawsuit
Jul 18 2005 // Insurance companies for northern Idaho grass farmers have agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by area residents over pollution from growers’ annual field burning. The amount of the settlement hasn’t...
Case Law Watch
Jul 18 2005 // Wooddale Builders vs. Maryland Casualty Co. (Minnestoa Court of Appeals, May 3, 2005) —Ruling: Appropriate end date for time-on-the-risk allocation is date of remediation.House builder brought action against...
Silly Business Suits Back in Style
Jul 18 2005 // Saying complimentary things about trial attorneys is not exactly the surest way to win friends in the insurance industry. Yet even in the heated debate over tort reform, it should be acceptable to acknowledge when the...
CCC Settles Class Action Suit on Valuation of Total Loss Vehicles
Jul 15 2005 // Chicago-based claims software-maker CCC Information Services Inc. announced that it and 15 of its customers signed a settlement agreement with the plaintiffs in various class action suits pending in Madison County, Ill....
Wagenfeld Levine Names McCollough Litigation Head in Firm’s St. Louis Office
Jul 14 2005 // Wagenfeld Levine, a multi-state insurance defense practice, announced that attorney John S. McCollough has joined its St. Louis office as head of civil litigation and partner. A litigator with more than 18 years of...
Calif. Supreme Court Rejects Third Lawsuit Against Workers’ Comp Issues
Jul 14 2005 // Yesterday, the California Supreme Court denied the writ of mandate in a case filed by a group sponsored by the California Applicant Attorneys’ Association, the American Insurance Association reported today. The case...
N.Y. Sees Drop in Auto Insurance Fraud, Injury Suits
Jul 6 2005 // The number of suspected automobile insurance fraud cases dropped across New York last year by 17 percent, according to a new report. New York State Insurance Department officials said fraud cases, which for years have been...
Silly Business Suits Back in Style
Jul 4 2005 // Saying nice things about trial attorneys is not the surest way to win friends in the insurance industry. Yet even in the heated debate over tort reform, it should be acceptable to acknowledge when the other side might have...
Editor’s Note: Silly Business Suits Back in Style
Jul 4 2005 // Saying nice things about trial attorneys is not the surest way to win friends in the insurance industry. Yet even in the heated debate over tort reform, it should be acceptable to acknowledge when the other side might have...
Industry Fears ‘Serious Impact’ on Auto Market of N.J. Court Ruling
Jul 4 2005 // A New Jersey Supreme Court decision handed down last month that eliminates a “serious life impact” test under the auto insurance verbal threshold will dramatically increase automobile insurance losses and rates...
Justice Department and Actuaries’ Captive Settle Antitrust Suit
Jun 26 2005 // The U.S. Department of Justice has reached a settlement that will require captive insurer Professional Consultants Insurance Company Inc. and its actuarial consulting firm members to stop sharing certain information on the...
Florida AG Wins Lawsuit in Sale Involving Phony Insurance Bonds
Jun 22 2005 // Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist announced his office has won a lawsuit against a State of Washington-based company that sold fraudulent bonds purporting to eliminate the need for standard insurance coverage, a false...
Md. Lawsuit Charges Flood Insurance Conspiracy to Low-Ball Claims
Jun 20 2005 // More than 140 claimants are suing federal flood insurance officials and the program’s insurance industry partners claiming they conspired to low-ball their claims payments after their properties were hit by Tropical...
Appraisal is Often Best Remedy for Claim Disputes
Jun 20 2005 // As someone who makes his living by representing people who sue each other, it may sound odd for me to say, but it’s true-a lawsuit is not the answer to every dispute. A case in point is a typical dispute over the...
A New Day: Texas Asbestos Reform
Jun 20 2005 // The newspapers say that a new era in Texas asbestos and silica litigation began on May 19, 2005, when Gov. Rick Perry signed the comprehensive reform legislation, referred to as Senate Bill 15, already approved by the...
By Francis J. Huver
Jun 19 2005 // No more excuses: Making the case for EPLI Common misconceptions leave business owners, small and large, in the bare Employment practices liability insurance has been available on a stand-alone basis since the early 1980s....
Ill. AG Tracks Down ‘Storm Chaser’ Roofing Company
Jun 17 2005 // Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed suit against a Cook County roofing company that last year allegedly swept into neighborhoods damaged by recent storms and accepted nearly $49,000 in deposits and total...
