As the Eastern District of New York faces a glut of nearly 900 Hurricane Sandy-related insurance claim denials and alleged underpayments, liason counsel for the insurance defendants has submitted its part of a plan to help expedite the cases through the system.
The defense filed a list of legal issues it expects to encounter, such as the presumption that the insured know and consent to a policy’s contents, and that the insured has the burden of “establishing not only that a covered loss occurred, but also the value of that loss,” according to one liaison counsel, Jared Greisman of White Fleischner & Fino in Manhattan.
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