Insurance agents and brokers must keep the records about their clients sacrosanct and not access this information for personal reasons. Without authority, one agency staff member did the opposite, and her employment was terminated.

A sweet young thing and her college beau thought they could outsmart their insurer on a fraudulent auto claim.

A staged insurance loss is a fictitious loss created for the sole purpose of defrauding an insurer. Wherever insurance exists in the world there is insurance fraud.

Failure to properly advise a plaintiff seeking punitive damages about the tax consequences of success can result in claims of legal malpractice.

Punitive damages come with unexpected tax consequences for plaintiffs.

Insurance agents owe a duty to obtain the insurance and the coverage limits the customer requests. But when someone is hurt by the insured's actions, can the injured person, who isn't a party to the contract between the insured and the carrier, sue the agent because there wasn't enough insurance...

Third party sues insurance agent in Ohio for negligent procurement, after the agent's policyholder causes an auto accident. What do the courts say?

Most people do not understand how hard it is to set fire to a house that destroys the entire dwelling and its contents. Most residences simply do not have sufficient combustibles in the right place to allow for a sustained fire. Many homes, especially the more modern ones, have fail-safe...