The Rhode Island Supreme Court vacated and remanded a lower court's ruling, determining a property owner had properly demanded an appraisal within the time limit provided in his policy with Allstate.
An idiopathic injury occurs when either the cause of an accident is unknown or when it is due to a personal condition of the employee with no relationship to a workplace risk or hazard. For an injury to be compensable under O.C.G.A. § 34-9-1(4), it must "arise out of" and occur "in the course of" employment.
This case has brought a larger legal question in Massachusetts of whether an insurance company, and under what circumstances, has a right to recoup defense costs provided to an insured.
The causes behind the social inflation theory are numerous, but one of them is that attorney advertising affects the public in unexpected ways, according to some defense lawyers.
Former MLB pitcher Clay Buchholz's purchase of a rider to cover the all-risk policy's mold exclusion doesn't cover the infestation that destroyed his mansion.
The court will decide whether insurers should be allowed to forgo updating the statute of limitation for claims in their policies if that information is included in later endorsements.
The justices were guided by a 2020 decision related to an identical policy where the court found the term "physical abuse" as used in the exclusion was ambiguous.