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Join the industry’s top litigators and leading plan counsel at ACI’s 16th Annual Advanced Forum on Managed Care Disputes and Litigation, for two days of discussions designed to address emerging areas of concern for MCOs in...more
Car accidents are an unfortunate reality on the roads of Tallahassee, Florida. With thousands of vehicles traversing the city daily, collisions are bound to occur. Determining fault and liability in these incidents is often a...more
It’s apt to name a blog post after one of history’s great action movies when the case involves a “conceptual artillery duel” that “ends in a draw,” and that is exactly how U.S. District Judge Gerald Austin McHugh Jr. of the...more
In Meyer v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado entered summary judgment for an insurer after video evidence showed that the insured was not entitled to the benefits...more
Jason Brand made a claim for disability benefits under his disability policy with Principal Life Insurance Company on the basis that he was totally disabled by extreme anxiety that began in July 2014 after a warrant was...more
The North Carolina Department of Insurance recently announced that a new investigative unit formed as part of the Cooperative Disability Investigations (CDI) Program will be located in Raleigh, North Carolina, with the goal...more
In its recent decision, People ex rel. Ellinger v. Magill, et al., —Cal.Rptr.3d—, No. E076378, 2022 WL 1077988 (Cal. Ct. App., Mar. 18, 2022), the California Court of Appeal refused to extend liability under California’s...more
A District Court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently held that an insured’s submission of invoices altered to inflate replacement costs for water-damaged inventory constituted material misrepresentations. ...more
When an owner seeks the appraisal of a property insurance claim, insurers commonly object by demanding that the trial court must first rule on defenses to coverage before allowing appraisal panel to value the total claim...more
Recent decisions provide worthwhile guidance for insurers handling slayer claims. According to traditional inheritance law, a “slayer” is one who intentionally kills, or conspires to kill, feloniously or unjustifiably,...more
The Hartford affiliate Sentinel Insurance Company continued its successful campaign to limit dubious claims by securing another favorable decision – this time in California in the rapidly developing area of financial elder...more
Assignment of Benefit Scams - According to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, about $80 billion is stolen every year by unscrupulous companies supposedly acting in the best interests of U.S consumers during critical...more
While issues of fact can preclude summary judgment in some cases involving failure to cooperate and misrepresentation, a New York federal court recently granted summary judgment to an insurer in this context. ...more
Florida has been plagued with insurance fraud for decades. All insurance coverages are susceptible to fraud, but scams are especially prevalent in the context of automobile accidents. Staged crashes, patient brokering,...more