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In MONY Life Insurance Co. v. Perez, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals set aside a jury verdict in favor of MONY Life Insurance Co. on its unjust enrichment claim against policyholder Bernard Perez, holding that an...more
How does the life insurance claims process work? Industry surveys contend that life insurance claims are denied less than 5% of the time, while others more skeptical of the life insurance industry believe the denial rate is...more
In Potovsky v. Lincoln Benefit Life Co., the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of the insureds’ complaint for failure to sufficiently allege damages regarding the denial of a long-term care claim....more
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
In a landmark decision in 2023, the Oregon Supreme Court in Moody v. Oregon Community Credit Union, 371 Or. 772, 542 P.3d 24 (2023), reshaped the contours of bad-faith insurance litigation in Oregon. This ruling has since...more
Life insurers operating in California can breathe a little easier this morning. Since 2021, life insurers have been facing a wave of class action lawsuits and potentially crushing liability based on alleged violations of...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
Until recently, Oregon courts did not allow policyholders to bring claims against their insurers under Oregon’s Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Act and only allowed tort-based “bad faith” claims in narrow circumstances....more
Litigation arose over whether a suit for misrepresentation and breach of contract arising out of an easement triggered a Commercial General Liability (CGL) insurer's duty to defend. Internal confidential communications...more
The steel contractor named the general contractor an additional insured on its CGL policy. The steel contractor's welds were defective. The general contractor retrofitted the named insured's defective columns before they...more
Life Policy Lapse Shortly Before Insured’s Death - In Simon v. USAA Life Insurance Co. (Mar. 29, 2024), the insurer denied death benefits under a term life insurance policy, which had lapsed for nonpayment of premium two...more
The owners hired a general contractor (GC) insured by Amerisure to build a movie theatre, and the GC hired a masonry subcontractor (Sub) insured by Selective under a primary and umbrella policy...more
The Oregon Supreme Court has long held the legislature did not create a private right of action under the Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Act (ORS 746.230). Policyholders could bring a tort claim against their insurance...more
New York’s Highest Court Holds That Portion Of Premium Need Not Be Refunded For Death During Policy Period Of Universal Life Policy- The Joan C. Lupe Family Trust purchased a policy under which Lincoln Life and Annuity...more
Eastern District Finds That Insurer’s Delay In Disclaiming After Insured Gave Notice Of Occurrence Precluded Insurer’s Reliance Upon Exclusions Two employees of Extreme Residential Corp. were involved in a construction...more
Southern District Holds That Contractor’s Carrier Has Duty To Defend ConEd Even Though Contractor’s Work Ended Months Before The Accident-A pedestrian tripped and fell on a Bronx sidewalk, and she sued the owner of the...more
The phenomenon of void ab initio life insurance policies has “spawned a host of thorny questions regarding the appropriate remedial response to the identification of a policy as STOLI.” The Supreme Court of Delaware...more
In Cost of Insurance Litigation, Courts Continue to Disagree Over the Meaning of the Key Contractual Provision - If you see a movie that is “based on a true story,” how close to the story are you expecting the movie to be?...more
Con este primer número arranca una iniciativa de carácter divulgativo que nace con la vocación de recoger periódicamente reflexiones y análisis sobre temas de actualidad del sector asegurador. Frente a otras opciones...more
On November 16, 2021, the Supreme Court of Delaware issued an opinion in Lavastone Capital LLC v. Estate of Beverly E. Berland (“Berland”) answering three certified questions under Delaware law. All three questions...more
In recent months, circuit courts across the country have supported insurers’ discretion to deny long-term disability benefits (LTD) under ERISA. Since the beginning of the year, disability plan insurers have prevailed in the...more
On August 13, 2020, in the putative class action challenging AXA’s COI rate increase on Athena Universal Life II (“AUL II”) policies, Judge Jesse M. Furman of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New...more
The Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a summary judgment ruling in favor of Minnesota Life Insurance Co. on all claims stemming from its denial of an accelerated life insurance payment. ...more
A federal district court in Ohio recently attempted to shed some light on when internal communications between an ERISA plan administrator and its in-house counsel are discoverable and when they are protected by the...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