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Cozen O'Connor

The Time Limited Demand and Duty to Settle: Common Themes and Advising Your Insurer Client How to Avoid Bad Faith

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There must be something in the water or the plaintiff’s bar just had a conference where the keynote speaker addressed strategies for putting pressure on insurers by issuing time-limited demands (“TLD”) because we have been...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

When You’re Close to Settlement but Your Insurer is Entrenched: How Policyholders Can Make it Over the Finish Line

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Today on “Don't Take No for an Answer,” hosts Lynda A, Bennett and Eric Jesse discuss what they see as an increase in insurers acting in bad faith trying to avoid their coverage obligations, with more roadblocks, more...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

More than Meets the Eye: Policy Exclusion May Not Apply When Initial Event is Covered Occurrence - Construction and Procurement...

In a 2017 opinion, Xia v. ProBuilders Specialty Insurance Company, the Washington State Supreme Court analyzed whether an insurer breached its duty of good faith and fair dealing in refusing to defend its contractor insured...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

The Ramifications of a Less-Than-Thorough Investigation

An insurance carrier has declined to defend a claim asserted against its insured, arguably without meeting its obligation to investigate the claim. For whatever reason — a change in personnel, loss of a file, or some other...more

Carlton Fields

Summary Judgment Win for Insurer in “Stable Value” Interest Rate Setting Case

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In July, MetLife obtained a win in the Northern District of Illinois when the court granted summary judgment in its favor on a claim that it had breached the duty of good faith and fair dealing in setting interest rates for a...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Eleventh Circuit Finds No Coverage for Contempt Proceedings under Lloyd's Professional Liability Insurance Policy

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In Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, P.A. v. Prosight-Syndicate 1110 at Lloyd’s, United States No. 15-12399, 2017 WL 586450 (11th Cir., February 14, 2017) the insured law firm sought to recover legal fees and costs incurred...more

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