This life insurance claim opinion is from the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, and is styled, Wharlest Jackson v. Farmers New World Life Insurance Company. Among other causes of action, Jackson has sued Farmers under an insurance policy for violations of the Texas Insurance Code. Farmers has filed a…
This life insurance claim opinion is from the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, and is styled, Wharlest Jackson v. Farmers New World Life Insurance Company. Among other causes of action, Jackson has sued Farmers under an insurance policy for violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA). Farmers…
Interpreting an insurance policy is sometimes difficult at best. Different people will read the same words in an insurance policy and believe the words say different things. What is important to an insurance lawyer is how the Courts read and interpret insurance policies. The Northern District of Texas, San Angelo…
Insurance Lawyers who who handle claims made through Renters Insurance policies should know there is a new kind of renters insurance coming into the marker. Traditional Renters Insurance covers break-ins, thefts, floods, and various other types of claims to the personal property of a renter. The new kind of renters…
For the past three months there has been a lot of information about Covid-19. What is not clear is how insurance policies, in particular, commercial insurance policies do or do not provide coverage for losses experienced because of Covid-19 or government reaction to Covid-19. How these cases and the resulting…
Insurance policies are contracts. A violation of an insurance policy is a usually going to be a breach of the contract. A lot of insurance law, simply put, is contract law. So what about the relationship of breach of contract to other theories of liability? The 1996, Texas Supreme Court…
As most insurance lawyers know by now, an insurance company can accept responsibility for the conduct of it’s adjusters when the claim is caused mother-nature and by doing so will defeat diversity jurisdiction and allow a lawsuit to be litigated in a Federal Court rather than a State Court. The…
Bad Faith Claims and proving them have their own set of rules. These rules were discussed in a 2020 opinion from the Eastern District of Texas, Beaumont Division. The opinion is styled, Mt. Javed Ventures, Ltd. v. Mt. Hawley Insurance Company. This is a summary judgment opinion. The legal history…
Here is a complicated case regarding policy cancellation. The case is from the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division, and is styled, Scottsdale Insurance Company v. All Citizens Transportation, LLC, et al v. Burns & Wilcox of Texas, Inc. et al. The procedural history is complicated and the opinion needs…
In the majority of cases it is best for a cases wherein an individual or small company litigates the case in State Court rather than Federal Court. As a result, knowing how to keep a case in Federal Court is important. Here is a 2020 opinion from the Eastern District…