INSURANCE LEGAL NEWS

Insurance Coverage Blog Updated : Thu, 08 May 2008 00:54:20 -0800 California Court of Appeals: no guaranteed replacement cost means homeowner is solely responsible for adequate insurance California wildfires have provided some interesting battles between policyholders and insurers, chiefly over whether the insurer or the homeowner is responsible for the home being underinsured when it was destroyed. I wrote about a Bloomberg piece on that subject in this post last year.  The California Court of Appeals, Fourth District, recently decided a case, Everett v. State Farm, ... Author : DPR@dunn-carney.com (David Rossmiller) Publ.Date : Thu, 08 May 2008 00:54:20 -0800 New article on plain English requirements for insurance policies This is a relatively small article I wrote for the OADC magazine, the Oregon Association of Defense Counsel.  I'm not actually a member of that organization, but one of my partners is on the Board of Directors, so I like to help out when I can.  Some of the information was contained in the much larger anti-concurrent cause article I wrote for the recent New Appleman on Insurance: Critical Issues in Insurance Law, but this has more of a fo... Author : DPR@dunn-carney.com (David Rossmiller) Publ.Date : Tue, 06 May 2008 11:21:29 -0800 Trailer Lawyers demand sanctions for 'scurrilous' allegations relating to Rigsby Trailer Summit A good way to finish out the week -- once again it's Trailer Time, where we catch up on another episode of the Trailer Lawyer News, with that beloved and familiar cast of characters: the Rigsby Sisters, Dickie Scruggs, Trailer Todd, Trailer Tony, Trailer Chip and Trailer Mary, and of course, Snake Farm. Remember Hemingway's saying that courage is grace under pressure? Well, I'm not sure what he would call these Trailer Lawyer briefs that have been filed in the False Claims Act case, Ex rel. Rigsby<... Author : DPR@dunn-carney.com (David Rossmiller) Publ.Date : Fri, 02 May 2008 09:25:33 -0800