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GETTING PERSONAL: Insurance Agent Sued Personally In TCPA Class Action Against Senior Life Insurance Company

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Said it before. Will say it again– the rule of personal liability for TCPA violations undertaken for an employer is the most unfair in all of American jurisprudence. Take the case of Matthews v. Senior Life Insurance Co.,...more

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TCPA INSURANCE TO THE RESCUE?: Small Debt Collector Walks Away From Class Suit For Under Policy Limits

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TCPA insurance used to be very difficult to come by but slowly carriers are starting to write policies to protect companies from TCPA liability. Most of the policies are low limit high deductible affairs– $1MM is the max that...more

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Court Dismisses TCPA Case Due to Failure to Plausibly Allege That the Defendant Made the Calls at Issue

A recent decision out of the Eastern District of Virginia, Matthews v. Senior Life Ins. Co., provides a helpful reminder that TCPA complaints do not satisfy Rule 8’s pleading standard if they do not plausibly link the...more

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Illinois Federal Court Holds No Duty to Defend Lawsuit Alleging BIPA Violations

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The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, applying Illinois law, has held that an insurer had no duty to defend an insured against a lawsuit alleging violations of the Illinois Biometric...more

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Violation-of-Law Exclusion Defeats Duty to Defend BIPA Lawsuit

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The Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, applying Illinois law, has held that two general liability insurers do not owe a duty to defend an insured in a lawsuit alleging Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)...more

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Society Insurance Stuck Defending Insured In Biometric Privacy Class Action

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Notwithstanding the deluge of data breach and internet eavesdropping privacy cases, companies also continue to face an onslaught of biometric privacy actions under statutes like the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act...more

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The California Supreme Court (and Court of Appeal) - November 14-18, 2022

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The California Supreme Court issued the following decision last week: Yahoo, Inc. v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA, No. S253593. Yahoo!’s insurer, National Union, refused to indemnify Yahoo! in...more

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Is There a Limit to Insurer Unwillingness to Cover Claims for Unsolicited Marketing Communications? Two Decisions by the Seventh...

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Among the many unusual aspects of 2021 is that the same insurance company was before a federal appellate court on two separate but contemporaneous cases – one in which the insurer was asserting a lack of insurance coverage...more

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Is There a Limit to Insurer Unwillingness to Cover Claims for Unsolicited Marketing Communications? Two Decisions by the Seventh...

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Among the many unusual aspects of 2021 is that the same insurance company was before a federal appellate court on two separate but contemporaneous cases – one in which the insurer was asserting a lack of insurance coverage...more

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Massachusetts Court Holds Notice of TCPA Exclusions Sufficient to Avoid TCPA Violation

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On January 7, 2022, the Massachusetts Appeals Court issued a decision concerning whether two insurance companies provided sufficient and timely notice to its Insured regarding the exclusion of coverage for Telephone Consumer...more

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Class Action & MDL Roundup – Spring 2021

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Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! Our spring edition covers notable class actions from the first quarter of 2021. In this edition, the courts are beginning to split on COVID-19 cases, privacy litigants can’t...more

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Seventh Circuit Affirms "Information Laws" Exclusion Precludes Coverage for TCPA and Related Common Law Claims

The Seventh Circuit has affirmed a ruling by an Illinois federal district court, holding that an "Information Laws" exclusion bars coverage for an insured dental services company's TCPA claim. Mesa Laboratories, Inc. v....more

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Life Industry Class Action Trends in the First Half of 2020

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The first half of 2020 saw an uptick in the filing of class action lawsuits against life insurance companies. Life insurance companies have continued to be the target of putative class actions in California challenging...more

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Class Action Litigation In The Wake Of COVID-19

Class action claims have taken on a new twist in the wake of COVID-19. Already, the global pandemic has generated litigation across a broad swath of areas, including privacy, data security, and consumer, among others. To...more

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Class Action & MDL Roundup: Summer 2019

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Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! Our summer edition covers notable class actions from the second quarter of 2019. The Supreme Court granted cert on a pair of ERISA cases that revived one ruling thought...more

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Invasion of Privacy Exclusion in a Claims-Made Policy and Looking Ahead to Data Privacy Litigation

This week in Horn v. Liberty Insurance Underwriters, Inc., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 90194 (S.D. Fla. May 30, 2019), the Florida district court held that an invasion of privacy exclusion under a claims-made policy prohibited...more

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Eleventh Circuit Holds TCPA Lawsuit Did Not Fall Within Coverage for “Accidents” Under Insurance Policy

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The Eleventh Circuit recently held that sending a fax in violation of the TCPA is not considered an “accident” in determining whether coverage existed for TCPA claims under a commercial general liability insurance policy. ...more

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Financial Services & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending March 22, 2019

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Financial Services Update - FDCPA / definition of "debt collector": law firm carrying out a nonjudicial foreclosure action not a debt collector because the primary definition of a "debt collector" under sec. 1692a does not...more

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Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending February 22, 2019

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Real Property Update - Foreclosure / Paragraph 22: bank failed to introduce sufficient evidence to prove default letter was sent to borrower pursuant to paragraph 22 of the mortgage where bank's witness never testified that...more

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Ninth Circuit Asks the California Supreme Court to Interpret the Scope of Personal Injury Coverage

On January 15, 2019, the Ninth Circuit certified the following question to the California Supreme Court: Does a commercial liability policy that covers “personal injury,” defined as “injury… arising out of… [o]ral or...more

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Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending February 8, 2019

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Real Property Update - Homestead: injunction for municipal violations, which prevented a spouse from returning to the property, did not destroy or "abandon" homestead protections (preventing one spouse from selling the...more

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Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending January 25, 2019

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Real Property Update - Trespass / Temporary Injunction: temporary injunction order premised upon a physical trespass onto property, which did not specify actions that constitute trespass, did not enjoin use of airspace over...more

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9th Circuit Seeks Guidance from California High Court on the Duty to Defend in TCPA Cases

Does the coverage in commercial general liability (CGL) policies for violations of the right to privacy extend to unwanted intrusions, or is it limited to the disclosure of personal information to a third party? On a recent...more

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TCPA Class Action Update – January 2019

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The Carrier with Better Record-Keeping Practices Than the Insured Wins a Significant TCPA Insurance Coverage Dispute - Last week, the Eighth Circuit held that an insurance company was entitled to the presumption that its...more

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Eighth Circuit Holds Deposition Testimony Shows Adequate Notice Given for TCPA Exclusion

Yesterday January 3, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that an insurer had provided adequate notice of the Distribution of Material exclusion in a renewal policy to make the exclusion enforceable in...more

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