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Shoulder Injuries Caused by Car Accidents

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Car accidents often cause shoulder injuries. These injuries may affect your ability to work, care for yourself, or move without pain. You may struggle with basic tasks or lose access to activities you once enjoyed. Certain...more

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Proper Collection, Handling, Storage & Disposal of Physical Evidence (Second Edition)

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Regardless of the specific cause of property damage—whether it be vehicle impact, structural collapse, construction defects, equipment failures, fire or explosion, hail, lightning, storms, animal activity, or water...more

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Insurance Insights for the Cold, Dark Winter Nights

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Welcome to the latest issue of Insurance Insights, a gathering of notable legal developments and trends relevant to the insurance industry. In this issue, fires alter the landscape of California insurance, an expert’s...more

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Federal District Court Holds Engineer Is Qualified Enough, and His Methods Are Reliable Enough, to Testify to Date Wind and Hail...

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In Wings Platinum, LLC v. Westchester Surplus Lines Ins. Co., No. 3:23-CV-2145-D, 2025 WL 391388 (N.D. Tex. Feb. 4, 2025), a federal district court recently held that an engineer with one year and one month of experience...more

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Why Your Car Accident Settlement Could Be Delayed

Car accidents are a distressing experience, one that you typically want to put behind you as soon as possible. Trying to settle your claim quickly to cover medical bills, vehicle repairs, and other expenses often feels...more

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Cannabis Coverage Alert: Oregon Court Distills the Science of Cannabis to Find Insurance for a CBD Claim

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Although the 2018 Farm Bill carved out hemp from the federal Controlled Substances Act, few court rulings have addressed the legal distinction between federally-legal hemp and federally-illegal cannabis. A new opinion from...more

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Eleventh Circuit Finds No “Direct Physical Loss” to Dust-Covered Restaurant that Merely Required Cleaning

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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, so does the deluge of litigation stemming from property insurers’ denials of COVID-19 business interruption claims. Much of the debate between carriers and policyholders concerns whether...more

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Georgia Court of Appeals Holds Lay Witness Can Provide Opinion Testimony on the Value of a Property If the Witness Had an...

In Woodrum v. Ga. Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co., 815 S.E.2d 650 (Ga. Ct. App. 2018), the Court of Appeals of Georgia considered whether the lower court properly disqualified a contractor as an expert witness and excluded the...more

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An Expert Is Only As Good As His Actual Experience

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Experts are often used to address issues of causation and scope of damages in insurance coverage matters. It is well established, however, that an expert must be qualified through specific training or actual experience. ...more

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Arizona District Court Rejects Discovery of Medical Expert's Previous Reports in Bad Faith Case

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The Holding - In Cheatwood v. Christian Brothers Services, 2018 WL 287389 (D. Ariz. Jan. 4, 2018) (Unpublished) (Order), a bad faith case arising from a health benefits claim, the Arizona District Court quashed portions of...more

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