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Governmental Immunity and Your Subrogation Claim in Texas: Navigating the Texas Tort Claim Act

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Property insurers are often frustrated when damage occurs due to the actions of others, especially when a governmental agency is at fault. In the Lone Star State, the Texas Tort Claim Act (TTCA) establishes that these...more

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North Carolina Court of Appeals Takes Insurer to Task For Sloppy Drafting

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Last month, the North Carolina Court of Appeals released its decision in Meinck v. City of Gastonia, — S.E.2d —, 2019 WL 114054 (N.C. Ct. App. Jan. 2, 2019), holding a policy exclusion to be ambiguous because of poor drafting...more

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COA Penalizes Insurer for Poor Writing in Policy Exclusion

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Bad grammar can lead to an adverse coverage decision – that’s the lesson one insurer (and its insured) learned the hard way when the NC Court of Appeals held that an incomplete sentence and improper grammar in an insurance...more

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Florida Supreme Court Holds Insurer Immune from Bad Faith Claims

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On May 14, 2015, the Florida Supreme Court held that a government-created insurance company, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, was immune from statutory first-party bad faith claims. The Florida Legislature created...more

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