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The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has updated its Hurricane Michael claims figures and it now estimates that total insured losses top $6.654 billion.
The Tenth Circuit has affirmed a decision by a district court in Oklahoma that the insured under a commercial general liability insurance policy was covered for claims asserted against his courier service but not his security business.
A federal district court in Pennsylvania has ruled that a waiver signed by an insured did not waive the right to aggregate or “stack” the limits of coverage for underinsured benefits between two separate policies of insurance.
The Eleventh Circuit has ruled that the prior knowledge exclusion in an errors and omissions liability insurance policy precluded coverage of a lawsuit where the insured knew that a negligent misrepresentation claim “might likely be made” against it.
A former insurance agent has been sentenced to 101 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $20,056,054.67 in restitution for his role in defrauding two finance companies.
A federal district court in Florida has ruled that it was improper for an insured's expert witness to condition his appearance for a deposition on advance payment of his fees by the insurer.
A California appellate court has ruled that a homeowners' insurance policy did not cover a lawsuit alleging that the insured shot the owner of a jewelry mart multiple times during an attempted armed robbery.
The Tenth Circuit has ruled that an insurer had no duty to defend its insured in a lawsuit stemming from a first-degree murder even where the insured was sued for negligence or recklessness rather than for an intentional tort.
A federal district court in Florida has ruled that the earth movement exclusion in an insurance policy excluded coverage for structural damage to a home that allegedly came about after 4,000 gallons of water leaked from a water heater.
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