Mineral Wells insurance lawyers and all insurance lawyers who keep up with what is happening in bad faith litigation will find this article interesting. It is from the Claims Journal and is titled, Going on the Offensive in Defending Bad Faith Claims. I do not agree with this article but…
Grand Prairie insurance lawyers must know what it takes for an insurance company to be found liable for bad-faith. A 5th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion is educational in this respect. It is a 2014 opinion styled, Santacruz v. Allstate Texas Lloyd’s, Inc. The 5th Circuit reversed a summary judgment…
Insurance lawyers in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas who are honest and straight forward with their clients, will let them know up front that winning a case on allegations of “bad faith” are an up hill fight. The Texas Supreme Court and the various appellant courts look negatively on…
Insurance lawyers keeping up with insurance news will find a recent Texas Tribune article interesting. The title is, “Emails: Prosecutors Got Texas Mutual Great Publicity.” The article says that Travis County prosecutors say the money they get each year from a large insurance company to prosecute workers’ compensation fraud helps…
Kennedale insurance lawyers need to read this recent opinion from the United States District Court, Dallas Division. It is styled, Renee Davis and Reginald Davis v. State Farm Lloyds and Leah Suzanne McGee. This is a case that was filed in State Court against State Farm and the agent, McGee,…
Insurance attorneys need to know the law in Texas as it relates to the responsibility an insurance company owes to its insureds and liability coverage. The Insurance Journal published an article in July 2015, that discusses a Louisiana case but has applicability to Texas law. The Louisiana Supreme Court recently…
Grand Prairie insurance lawyers need to be aware of the opinions issued by the appeals courts dealing with bad faith issues. The Dallas Court of Appeals issued an opinion on June 30, 2015, that discusses bad faith in insurance cases. The style of the opinion is, Bruce E. Bernstien v…
Dallas insurance lawyers will all have tales of people who lost cases they might have otherwise won if only they had hired an experienced Insurance Law Attorney. This is illustrated in a Dallas Court of Appeals case styled, Marqueth Wilson v. Colonial County Mutual Insurance Company. Please understand that even…
Benbrook insurance lawyers need to know who can properly be a plaintiff in a lawsuit against an insurance company. In order to sue an insurance company, the plaintiff must have “standing.” A 1996, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion states that an intended beneficiary under a policy of insurance has…
Arlington insurance lawyers need to be able to answer the above question when someone comes into their office with a complaint. Simply put, standing means the legal right to be in court on a case. Texas Insurance Code, Section 541.151 grants a cause of action to a person who sustains…