Flood Basics still causing pain for some
Nonprofit Basics: Insurance Coverage for the New Nonprofit
The Calm Before the Storm: Planning for Catastrophic Weather Events
Hinshaw Insurance Law TV: Recent Changes in Florida Property Insurance Law and How They Will Affect First Party Insurance
The Calm Before and After the Storm: How to Maximize Insurance Recovery for Catastrophic Weather Events
NGE On Demand: Insurance and Indemnity Issues for Family Offices with Angela Elbert
Filing Insurance Claims After the Texas Winter Storm
Navigating the New Normal: Risk Management and Legal Considerations for Real Estate Companies
Subro Sense - The ABC's of RCV and ACV
WEBINAR: COVID-19 Insurance Coverage Class Actions
What is an Appraisal?
K&L Gates Triage: Emergency Preparedness and Response in Long Term Care - Part II
When wildfires, floods or other disasters strike, multiple policyholders can be affected in similar ways. But historically, each policyholder would take on their insurance company alone—a tough task, especially for individual...more
On April 18, 2025, law firms representing California homeowners filed a pair of lawsuits accusing dozens of insurance companies of conspiring to deny property insurance to homeowners in fire-prone areas of California,...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
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Insurance Insights, a gathering of notable legal developments and trends relevant to the insurance industry. In this issue, the California Supreme Court covers COVID-19 claims, Georgia...more
This presentation will offer insight and strategies against emerging insurance class action claims in California involving a variety of topics, including total loss auto claims, wildfire smoke and Covid-19 claims, and...more
This robust report summarizes two quarters of activity in property and casualty claims class actions. Much has occurred in class actions asserting traditional theories, like labor depreciation and total loss claims, but also...more
This year began like the last one ended, with lots of activity. Total loss class actions kept going around the country, and labor depreciation class actions experienced ups and downs, depending on one’s viewpoint. New class...more
On April 27, 2020, five Missouri retailers filed a putative class action suit against their insurance provider, The Cincinnati Insurance Company, for breach of contract relating to the insurer’s denial of coverage under the...more
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have significant economic consequences in the US, a key issue for insurers and businesses throughout the country will be whether all or a portion of losses may be covered by insurance....more
This week the Eighth Circuit issued its long-awaited decision in a class action against State Farm involving the “labor depreciation” issue that I have covered extensively on this blog. State Farm prevailed on both the merits...more
Texas homeowners Joe and Stacci Key sued their roofer, Lon Smith Roofing Contractors (“LSRC”), alleging LSRC violated the Texas Insurance Code by acting as an unlicensed public insurance adjustor. The trial court granted...more
An emerging issue in class action litigation against the insurance industry involves an attempt by plaintiffs’ attorneys to argue that insurers should not be permitted to apply any deductible to payments made on an actual...more
There have been two recent federal district court decisions in the widespread class action litigation involving the application of depreciation to the labor cost component of replacement cost value on property insurance...more
I’ve regularly followed on my blog key developments in the numerous class actions against the insurance industry involving the application of depreciation to the labor cost component of estimated replacement cost value in...more
I have had a busy summer and am overdue in updating readers on recent decisions in class actions against insurers involving the “labor depreciation” issue. The issue involves whether, when insurers estimate the “actual cash...more
IN THE SPOTLIGHT - - SEC Sanctions Unregistered EB-5 Investments Broker SECURITIES - - FINRA to Assess Member Firms’ Culture - SEC Seeks Fund Responses to Distribution-In-Guise Guidance ...more
One of the issues I’ve been covering on this blog is a series of putative class actions in Georgia arising out of a Georgia Supreme Court decision in 2012, which held that diminution in value of real property is potentially...more
Insurance contracts are subject to numerous statutes and regulations specifying whether and how certain facts must be disclosed, certain coverages must be offered and certain coverage options must be accepted or declined. ...more