Texas, like many states, purports to employ a complaint allegation or “eight corners” rule. Under this “rule,” a duty to...
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This is the tale of what the Court of Appeals of Maryland—the state’s highest court—called a modified insurance “Ponzi scheme.”...
For a generation, or so, courts around the country have thought that contract law was insufficient to regulate the claims...
Insurance intermediaries, whether they are brokers or agents, have fiduciary duties. Often these duties run to policyholders or prospective policyholders....
Insurance agents are in a tough spot. They compete for business against nearly everybody: each other, banks, financial analysts, annuity...
On March 29, 2001, the Supreme Court of Texas decided a consolidated case of enormous importance to insurance intermediaries. In...
In 1989 the Legislature jettisoned the generations-old Texas hybrid system and substituted a new workers’ comp system. In the mid-19th...
Insurance covers accidents. In the legal world, we call these “fortuities”, but it all boils down to accidental happenings. First-party...
The Western world is haunted by the specter of the German government killing millions upon millions of Jews (and others)...
In specifying, arranging for and renewing insurance policies, it is customary in the industry for agents to use a kind...