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A federal district court in Florida has affirmed that Florida law does not recognize common-law first-party bad faith claims against insurance companies.
A South Carolina jury's award of underinsured motorist benefits to a woman who alleged she was injured in an auto accident was completely offset by the amount she previously had received from the other driver's insurance carrier.
A federal district court in Pennsylvania has ruled that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's January 23, 2019 holding in Gallagher v. GEICO Indemnity Co. applied retroactively.
The Supreme Court of Oregon has ruled that the definition of “worker” in the state's workers' compensation law does not encompass a claimant injured during a pre-employment driving test.
The Supreme Court of Connecticut has issued a decision on the applicability of the continuing course of conduct tolling doctrine to a relationship between an insurance company and its independent claims adjuster.
The Supreme Court of South Dakota has ruled that an insurer did not have to defend claims against its insured arising after he sold a portion of his farm property to a purchaser that constructed a hog confinement facility there.
The Supreme Court of South Dakota has ruled that an underinsured motorists endorsement to an automobile insurance policy was ambiguous and did not preclude…
A federal district court in Georgia has ruled that a son who shot his mother to death was not entitled to any of the proceeds from her insurance policy.
The Second Circuit has ruled that a songwriter who composed the song “Vogue” with Madonna did not have to indemnify the music publisher for attorneys' fees it incurred in successfully defending a copyright infringement suit over the song.
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