By Ronald L. Kammer | August 24, 2020
Litigation has already started and courts in Michigan, New York, Texas and Washington, D.C. have already ruled in favor of the insurance industry in four decisions. In stark contrast, only one Missouri court refused to dismiss a similar suit on procedural ground as opposed to the merits.
By Michael A. Mora | August 21, 2020
The defendants immediately accepted the proposal that was $90,000 less than the intended amount.
By Angela Morris | August 20, 2020
Texas lawyers who won a $9.4 million verdict for their client, an emergency room doctors' group, said that certain testimony and evidence in the trial swayed the jury to their side.
Daily Business Review | Commentary
By Andrea DeField, Rachel E. Hudgins and Latosha M. Ellis | June 30, 2020
Prior to the riots in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the costliest U.S. civil disorder occurred between April 29 and May 4, 1992, after police officers involved in the brutal beating of Rodney King were acquitted. The five days of rioting caused $775 million in insured losses.
By Angela Morris | June 23, 2020
A Houston law firm has joined a growing group of business owners who are suing their insurance companies for refusing COVID-19 business-loss claims.
Texas Lawyer | Analysis|Commentary|Expert Opinion
By Kevin McKie | May 20, 2020
There is relatively little information on the intersection of asbestos exposure and COVID-19 infection, despite the clear connection in risk factors.
By Angela Morris | May 18, 2020
In what may be a first across the United States since the coronavirus pandemic canceled jury trials, Texas judges on Monday invited a jury pool to a court proceeding over video teleconference. Monday's hearing in an insurance dispute was actually a "summary jury trial," which is an alternative dispute resolution process.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 23, 2020
Efforts to coordinate business-interruption lawsuits against insurance firms focus on 16 cases so far filed in federal courts against eight insurance firms, but Richard Golomb, of Golomb & Honik, predicts an "avalanche of cases."
By Dennis Windscheffel, Clayton Matheson and Erin Brewer | April 22, 2020
In light of these immediate and potentially extended challenges, businesses undoubtedly will—and should—ask themselves whether their commercial property insurance policies provide business interruption coverages for virus-related losses.
By Angela Morris | April 21, 2020
Although judges across the state have been using Zoom since late March for hearings in both criminal and civil cases, the use of the remote technology for a full-blown trial is new.
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