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In a significant decision issued on June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court of Texas reversed a jury verdict awarding over $89 million in damages in favor of the plaintiffs in Werner Enterprises, Inc. v. Blake, holding that the...more
Jameel, etc. v. Dember, et al., No. A-1225-23 (April 28, 2025) - A wrongful death and survivorship action arising from a fatal accident in a hospital employee parking lot was dismissed after the New Jersey Appellate Division...more
On May 9, 2025, the Supreme Court of Texas reversed an appellate court’s decision in Pohl v. Cheatham. The case involves two Texas-based attorneys, Michael Pohl and Robert Ammons, who solicited out-of-state clients with...more
Berkoski v. Honda Motor Company, Ltd., 328 A.3d 986 (N. J. Super., App. Div. 2025) - This product liability action centered on a fatal auto accident; a head-on collision that the plaintiff claimed could have been prevented if...more
The Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal recently issued a significant decision in Wolf v. Williams, clarifying that a critical aspect of Florida’s momentous tort reform effort, Section 768.0427, is not retroactive. This...more
In Wolf v. Riverport Insurance Co., the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s holding, under Illinois law, that an underinsured motorist insurer did not breach its insurance contract, and no implied...more
Key Points: In Mickler v. Triplett, 397 So.3d 188 (Fla. 5th DCA Nov. 15, 2024), the Court of Appeal thwarted a new strategy from the plaintiffs’ bar to remove the causation question from the hands of the jury....more
A California Court of Appeals decision brought one auto policyholder decidedly down from “cloud nine” in Murphy v. AAA Auto Insurance of Southern California, which found no coverage over a cannabis delivery service employee’s...more
Darryl Vachon v. The Travelers Home & Marine Ins. Co., Fla. 2d DCA, No. 2D2023-2674, February 14, 2025 - The insured was injured in 2011 when he was rear-ended by a driver who had a $10,000.00 insurance policy. The insurance...more
In Audish v. Macias (2024) 102 Cal.App.5th 740, the California Court of Appeal decided a key issue concerning the admissibility of a plaintiff’s future Medicare eligibility in calculating damages for future medical expense...more
With an increasing trend of nuclear excess verdicts around the country against individuals unable to pay millions of dollars, third-party bad faith lawsuits are on the rise. Frequently, attorneys will represent a plaintiff in...more
GEICO General Insurance Company v. Tsao, Fla. 5th DCA, No. 5D2023-0645, December 6, 2024 - The Fifth District Court of Appeal reversed a jury trial verdict in favor of the plaintiffs/insureds in an underinsured motorist case...more
The Louisiana Supreme Court sent a concerning message to tort reform supporters when it surprisingly reversed its own earlier decision, which lowered an almost $19-million judgment awarded to a commercial truck driver...more
Deliz v. Julia Rose Transport, --- N.Y.S.3d --- (N.Y. App. Div. 2d Dept. 2024) - In Deliz, the plaintiff presented an expert witness to testify that the most likely cause of the motor vehicle accident was that the defendant...more
On June 5, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued an unpublished opinion that provides a blueprint to insurance companies for handling bad faith claims. The Fourth Circuit held in Sellman v....more
In Johnson v. Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, a limousine ride to the airport turned catastrophic when an unlicensed, speeding driver named Aaron Nash (“Nash”) missed a lane shift through a construction zone and...more
A recent opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit illustrates the importance of carefully scrutinizing classwide liability theories, even where district courts have flexibility assessing classwide...more
On April 7, 2023, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in Porter v. Martinez, which addresses California’s law that prohibits honking a car horn except to warn of a safety hazard. Here, Susan Porter drove...more
On June 1, 2021, theEleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a summary judgment granted in favor of an insurer in a third party bad faith claim. The case, Eres v. Progressive American Insurance Company, Case No. 20-11006,...more
Brett McIsaac v. Foremost Insurance Company Grand Rapids, Michigan, A160389 (Sonoma County Super. Ct. No. SCV-265433) (Filed 4/30/21; certified for publication 5/19/21) - McIsaac had an auto insurance policy with Foremost...more
The Court of Appeals of Indiana recently ruled that, in Indiana, Form MCS-90 endorsements on insurance policies apply to purely intrastate trips, including when the vehicle is on the way to pick up cargo but has not yet done...more
In Florida, an insurer is required to work diligently on the insured’s behalf to avoid an excess judgment, with the “same haste and precision as if it were in the insured’s shoes”. Harvey v. GEICO General Insurance Company,...more
Back in the day, additional insureds were oftentimes afforded coverage for liability “arising out of” the named insured’s work for the additional insured. When confronted with such language, courts often concluded that it...more
On November 19, 2020, a three-judge Colorado Court of Appeals, Division I panel, unanimously affirmed a $3.6 million interest award on top of a $2.9 million verdict against Ford Motor Co. in a case involving an allegedly...more
SUM Endorsement In Commercial Automobile Policy Issued To LLC Deemed To Cover Its Sole Member As “Insured” Alan Tekel was struck by a vehicle. After Tekel settled with the driver of the vehicle for the full limit of the...more