Recently the Kansas Supreme Court held that the insurance company's untimely reservation of rights letter estopped the insurer from denying coverage. In Becker v. The Bar Plan Mutual Insurance Co., 419 P.3d 212 (Kan. 2018), the trial court ruled that the insurance...
Month: April 2019
Timing Is Everything When It Comes To Malicious Prosecution Coverage
The Illinois Supreme Court in First Mercury Ins. Co. v. Ciolino, 107 N.E.3d 240, appeal denied, 108 N.E.3d 840 (Ill. 2018), considered when a malicious prosecution claim became an "offense" for purposes of insurance coverage and whether the claim fell within the...
Choose Your Own Poison
The Washington Court of Appeals recently adopted a choose your own poison approach to cases where an insurer exhausts its policy limits in settlement of one claim while other related claims remain unresolved. In Singh v. Zurich American Ins. Co., 428 P.3d 1237 (Wash....