An insurance company has agreed to pay $20 million to settle a suit claiming it acted in bad faith when it refused to settle a claim within the policy limit.
The guard is about to change Cozen O’Connor, a 546-lawyer Philadelphia-based law firm known as an international insurance coverage powerhouse.The two name partners, although they have signed employment contracts to…
Attorney Richard Scruggs’ law firm has filed a federal racketeering suit against State Farm and two vendors claiming they conspired to cheat 21 policyholders out of nearly $4 million for…
State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. maintains high-profile trial lawyer Richard Scruggs violated ethics rules and should be removed from at least one case seeking coverage for homeowners’ Hurricane Katrina…
Trying to conceal an insurer’s agreement to provide coverage for the World Trade Center before the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is costing two law firms and a client insurance…
A federal judge in Alabama is asking the U.S. Justice Department to prosecute a high-profile trial lawyer for criminal contempt, contending that Richard Scruggs brazenly violated a court injunction by…
In an effort to settle a class-action lawsuit, Blue Cross of California has agreed it won’t cancel health coverage unless it can show deception by a policyholder.
A case pending before a California appeals court contends Blue Shield of California suddenly canceled coverage for a policyholder, resulting in delayed surgery and lasting injury.
A subsidiary of Allstate Corp. will be subpoenaed in an investigation into whether insurers improperly attributed Hurricane Katrina damages to floods rather than winds.
Allstate Insurance Co. says it is “shocked” by yesterday’s $2.8 million verdict on behalf of a Louisiana man whose home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Unum Group has reviewed fewer than 10 percent of eligible disability cases under legal settlements requiring the disability insurer to reopen 290,000 rejected claims, the Los…
