Appeals, Workplace Injury, Insurance Industry

Georgia Court's Ruling on Rycroft Defense Signals Key Limitation for Employers

Goldberg Segalla on 3/11/2025

Unfortunately, not everything is always peachy in the Peach State. Historically, the Rycroft defense has allowed employers to deny workers’ compensation benefits when a worker makes false representations about their physical...more

Insurers Can Look To Extrinsic Evidence To Deny a Defense

White and Williams LLP on 8/15/2022

Last week, the New Jersey Supreme Court decided Norman International, Inc. v. Admiral Insurance Company, No. 086155 (N.J. Aug. 11, 2022). At issue was coverage for a work-site injury and the interpretation of a policy...more

Increasing Exposure for Insurers and Employers as Courts Strike Workers’ Comp Bar to BIPA Claims

White and Williams LLP on 10/5/2020

Litigation under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has expanded tenfold. Although the statute was enacted 12 years ago, litigation under its private cause of action has spiked in more recent years partly...more

Timing is Everything: Tenth Circuit Overturns Insurer’s Disability Decision as Arbitrary and Capricious

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 11/6/2017

Even when a claims administrator approves a claim for disability benefits, its job is not done. That principle was again demonstrated in the recent case Owings v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Co., No. 16-3128 (10th Cir....more

California Appellate Court Takes Equitable Subrogation to the Excess

Carlton Fields on 10/31/2016

In California, where a primary insurer is found to have unreasonably failed to settle within its policy limits, and a judgment is later entered against their insured in excess of those limits, the primary carrier can be...more

Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Carriers May Pursue Justice

Carlton Fields on 10/24/2016

Workers’ compensation statutes impose liability without fault on the employers of men and women who are injured on the job. They also permit employers to recoup the costs they incur from any third parties who actually caused...more

Bad Faith Sentinel - April 2015

Saul Ewing LLP on 4/28/2015

In This Issue: - En Banc Mississippi Court of Appeals Affirms Summary Judgment for Insurer, Adjuster and Employer on Bad Faith Claims Arising from Denial of Coverage and Benefits for Work-Related Injury -...more

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