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Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

Show Me the Money – Maximizing Monetary Recovery in the Wake of Insurance Fraud

WHAT’S THE POINT? Insurance fraud negatively impacts everyone. It drives up the costs of doing business,...

Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

What’s a Coverage Defense? The 11th Circuit Addresses Coverage Defenses under FL Claims Administration Statute

When coverage is at issue, the interplay between a policy’s language and an insurer’s duties...

Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

Four-Corners Rule Carries the Day on Hurricane Claim

“Reprinted with permission from the January 23, 2017 issue of Daily Busines Review.  ©2017  ALM Media...

Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

Florida 4th DCA Reiterates Insurer’s Negligence Not Enough to Sustain Bad Faith Claim

Directs Judgment to be Entered in Favor of Insurer In GEICO v. Harvey, (Fla. 4th...

Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

Supreme Court Of Florida Holds Lapse Of Two-Year Contestability Period Precludes Challenge To STOLI

Originally published in the DRI The Voice of the Defense Bar Life, Health and Disability...

Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

Florida’s Fourth DCA Upholds Sworn Proof of Loss Requirement

Insurance companies in Florida receive thousands of property damage claims each year. To expedite the...

Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

Homeowners Insurance Assignments of Benefits May Have Finally Met Their Match

Few issues have been so hotly disputed in recent years as the issue of what...

Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

Court Imposes Unlimited Exposure on PIP Insurer

In Spaid v. Integon Indemnity Corp., Case No. 1D13-2343 (Fla. 1st DCA June 18, 2014),...

Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

Florida Supreme Court Addresses Insured’s Breach of Cooperation and Imposes Burden on Insurer to Show It Was Prejudiced

 In State Farm Mutual Auto. Ins. Co. v. Curran, 2014 WL 1010658, decided March 13,...

Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

Court Holds That Change of Policyholder Requires New Offer of UM Coverage

In Chase v. Horace Mann Ins. Co., 2015 WL 686093 (Fla. February 19, 2015), the...