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In Universal Prop & Cas. Ins. Co. v. West Naze, No. 4D2024-0098 (Fla. 4th DCA Jun. 4, 2025), the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal reaffirmed that an insured cannot introduce evidence of claim handling in a breach of...more
In El Dueno, LLC v. Mid-Century Insurance Company (2025 WL 1540329) (10th Cir. 2025)), the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgement on behalf of the insurer on the basis that the insurer did not act in bad...more
A pending case in Texas illustrates why COVID-19 business interruption claims need to be decided by juries in light of case-specific facts, not by judges using a one-size-fits-all approach. Originally published in Law360 -...more
In Gharibian et al., v. Wawanesa General Insurance Company, the California Second District Court of Appeal found that, under California law, the insureds failed to prove smoke, soot, ash and fire debris on covered property...more
Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company v. Medero, Fla. 3d DCA, No. 3D24-0338, February 19, 2025 - The Third District Court of Appeal reversed and remanded the initial fee award entered by the trial court: $150 per...more
In Michael Mitchell v. USAA General Indemnity Company, No. 09-23-00042-CV, 2025 WL 635235 (Tex. App.—Beaumont Feb. 27, 2025, no pet.), the appellate court affirmed dismissal of all Plaintiff’s claims with prejudice, finding...more
Coming on the heels of what are projected to be the costliest wildfires in California history, a new decision from the California Second District Court of Appeals could make it more difficult to obtain insurance coverage for...more
We kick off the year with a quartet of state supreme court decisions and an intermediate appellate court ruling that has insurers breathing a harmonious sigh of relief. Policyholders and insurers often disagree over what the...more
Ending a putative class action, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit examined policy language and two statutes to hold that an insurer does not owe sales tax on top of an actual cash value payment. The...more
Here is what we cover in this issue of The Title Reporter: A Legal Update for the Title Insurance Industry •An appellate court in New York has ruled that an exclusion in a title insurance policy precluded coverage of a...more
You’ll find some notable decisions in our May Insurance Update. Appeals over pandemic-related business interruption losses have made their way up to state high courts. And so far, these courts have continued the trend...more
Cases in our April Insurance Update address several questions: •Are costs incurred to comply with a subpoena covered? •What must an insured show to rebut the presumption of prejudice in a late notice situation? •What...more
In our March Insurance Update, we discuss four state supreme court cases and four cybercrime cases. The state high courts address: •From whose perspective should a consent-to-settle provision be judged? •What standard...more