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Akerman LLP

Abracadabra – How a Stalking Bill Magically Turned into Revisions to a Georgia Settlement Statute

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In Georgia’s recent Legislative Session, Senate Bill 83 started off addressing the eligibility for restraining orders related to stalking, but there must have been some magic pixie dust floating around the House Committee...more

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No Settlement Opportunity, No Problem

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The vast majority of extra-contractual/bad faith cases involve a carrier’s failure to secure a release of an insured by accepting a reasonable settlement opportunity within the policy limits. The absence of a reasonable...more

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Unique Supplemental Payments Provision Leads to Supplemental Payday

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Supplemental Payments provisions are present in almost every liability policy. These provisions generally detail the insurer’s responsibility for interest and costs awarded in suits that it has undertaken to defend....more

Miles Mediation & Arbitration

The Saddest Mediation: Mediating Wrongful Death Cases

Start with the obvious fundamental difference between a wrongful death mediation session and any other: the subject of the mediation itself is absent and will never return. That difference, in my experience, dictates a...more

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP

Good Faith: Plaintiffs’ Complaints About Release Held Invalid

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently addressed the issue of whether tendering a policy limits check on a liability policy with an overbroad release could constitute bad faith. In Pelaez v....more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

Lawyer's Reversal of Fortune: Don’t Violate Rules of Professional Conduct by Settling Over Your Client’s Objection

In Amjadi v. Brown (Nos. G059069, G059273 – 8.30.2021), the Fourth Appellate District Court of Appeal reversed a trial court judgment and subsequent order, holding, “an attorney may not settle a client’s case over the...more

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP

The Many Faces Of Multiple Liability Claims: Two Divergent Opinions From The Eleventh Circuit Court Of Appeal

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently released two opinions involving multiple liability claims against an insured with insufficient policy limits.  Both cases involved appeals from summary judgment orders in bad...more

Miles Mediation & Arbitration

10 Tips for Supporting—or Refuting—Medical Records during Mediation

When mediating personal injury cases, I often notice attorneys falling into the same traps time and again—especially when it comes to how they use medical records to support their cases or develop their defenses. To help you...more

Carlton Fields

When Evidentiary Error Matters: Eleventh Circuit Affirms Decision to Grant Retrial

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently closed the book on litigation in which GEICO had been involved since 2010, holding that the granting of a retrial—which resulted in a GEICO victory after an initial...more

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Drake, a redefining judgment on breach of mandate and contractual damages

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In a precedent setting judgment, the Supreme Court of Appeal in Drake Flemmer & Orsmond Inc & Another v Gajjar NO [2017] ZASCA 169 (1 December 2017) pronounced on the principles applicable in respect of assessment of...more

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