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Goldberg Segalla

[Webinar] Time-Limited, Policy Limits Demand: Critical Issues Facing Insurers When Settling Third-Party Liability Claims - July...

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Join Goldberg Segalla partners Brady Yntema and Jeff Matty for an interactive webinar discussing critical issues facing insurers when presented with a time-limited, policy-limits demand to settle third-party liability claims...more

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Eleventh Circuit expands Florida’s Powell Doctrine

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The Eleventh Circuit’s decision in Kinsale Insurance Company v. Pride of St. Lucie Lodge 1189, Inc., -- F.4th ----, 2025 WL 1142094 (11th Cir. Apr. 18, 2025), has significant implications for the good faith standard...more

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

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[Webinar] How to Handle Multiple Claimants and Insureds with Insufficient Policy Limits - July 31st, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

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Questions arise when an insurer is faced with multiple claimants and insufficient policy limits to settle all claims. Join partners Colleen E. Hayes and Thomas M. Wester for a discussion of the approaches various...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Ninth Circuit Confirms that the Two-Year Statute of Limitations in a Bad Faith UM/UIM Claim Begins when the Insured Should Have...

In an issue of first impression, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment for Allstate and held that the two-year statute of limitations for bad faith claims arising out of an uninsured/underinsured...more

Rumberger | Kirk

Eleventh Circuit: Disagreement Over Valuation Is Not Per Se Bad Faith

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A little more than one year after Progressive scored a bad faith win in Eres v. Progressive American Ins. Co., 998 F.3d 1273 (11th Cir. 2021), Progressive came away with another victory in Deary v. Progressive American Ins....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

Wiley Rein LLP

No Coverage for TPA in Claim Arising from Extracontractual Exposure to Insurer

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A federal district court has ruled that a third-party administrator’s professional liability policy does not afford coverage for a claim against the TPA arising from an excess judgment against the TPA’s...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

“That Settles It”: The Georgia Supreme Court Provides Clarity Regarding an Insurer’s Duty to Settle

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NEW GUIDANCE FROM THE GEORGIA SUPREME COURT RE: AN INSURER’S DUTY TO SETTLE - The issue of whether an insurer has fulfilled its duty to settle in good faith was recently litigated in Georgia. Under Georgia law “[a]n...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Insurers Beware: One Insurer’s Settlement Can Support a Bad Faith Failure-to-Settle Claim Against a Nonsettling Insurer

An insurer defending a claim against an insured that could exceed policy limits has a good faith obligation to settle the claim if possible. Failure to do so puts a nonsettling insurer at grave risk. An Eleventh Circuit...more

Pillsbury - Policyholder Pulse blog

Evolving Bad Faith Law: Pro-Policyholder Decision out of Minnesota

Since 2008, Minnesota has had a bad-faith statute that penalizes an insurance company for its unreasonable denial of a first-party insurance claim. But it was only earlier this month that a Minnesota appellate court...more

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Nevada Supreme Court Holds That Insurer’s Liability For Breach Of The Duty to Defend Is Not Capped At Policy Limits

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In Century Surety Company v. Dana Andrew (Dec. 13, 2018), the Nevada Supreme Court issued an opinion regarding whether, under Nevada law, the liability of an insurer that has breached its duty to defend, but not acted in bad...more

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP

Alabama and Mississippi Insurance Law Questions Following Hurricane Nate

Hurricane Nate made landfall on the Mississippi Gulf Coast near the city of Biloxi on Sunday, October 8, 2017, as a Category 1 Hurricane. The eastern quadrant of the storm’s center also passed over significant portions of...more

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