Florida is a testing ground for creative lawyering designed to set up insurance companies on failure to settle claims. However, in Welford v. Liberty Ins. Corp., 2016 WL 3360431 (N.D. Fla., 6/2/16), at least one Federal District Court refused to countenance yet...
Month: November 2016
In A Self-Evident Decision, The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Recently Held That An Insurance Company’s Failure To Re-Evaluate A Case Value After The Trial Court Eliminated A Key Affirmative Defense Justified A Bad Faith Failure To Settle Verdict
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in Bamford, Inc. v. Regent Ins. Co., 822 F.3d 403 (8th Cir. 2016), held that the District Court had properly denied an insurance company's post-verdict motions challenging the jury's verdict in a bad faith failure to settle case and...
Montana Courts Finds That Falling Boulders Constitute “Earth Movement” For Purposes Of Policy’s “Earth Movement” Exclusion
The Montana Supreme Court in Parker v. Safeco Ins. Co. of America, 384 Mont. 125, 2016 MT 173, 376 P.3d 114 (2016), held that an earth movement exclusion was not limited solely to damages caused by soil movement. The Court found that earth movement included damage...
Is Advertising Injury In The Bag? United States Second Circuit Court Of Appeals Finds That The Sale Of Counterfeit Branded Goods Was Not Covered As Advertising Injury
In United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Fendi Adele S.R.I., 823 F.3d 146 (2nd Cir. 2016), the United States Court of Appeals held in favor of USF&G finding that USF&G's policy did not provide coverage for the legal liability of its insured for selling...