In Allstate New Jersey Insurance Co. v. Lajara, New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled that an insured-defendant, subject to private claims for compensatory and punitive damages…
Month: July 2015
In Beyer v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Company, a Pennsylvania federal court was called upon to apply New Jersey law to a first party…
In Morris v. American National Insurance Group, the District Court adopted the Report and Recommendation of the Magistrate Judge, finding that the insurer did not…
In Board of Trustees, Roofers Union Local 30 v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company the court reiterated, with thorough citation of authority, that Pennsylvania’s insurance bad…
In Babcock & Wilcox Co. v. American Nuclear Insurers, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court had to determine under what circumstances an insured being defended under a reservation…
In Westport Insurance Corporation v. Mylonas, the insurer brought a declaratory judgment action its insured, and an underlying plaintiff with a judgment against the insured,…
In Mitra v. Principal Ins. Co., the insured sought to amend his complaint against his disability insurer, to add a claim for breach of the…
In Beachfront North Condominium Association v. Lexington Insurance Company, the New Jersey federal court granted the insurer’s motion to sever the breach of contract and…
In Mountainside Holdings, LLC v. American Dynasty Surplus Lines Ins. Co., the defendant insurers were excess directors and officers liability insurance carriers at the tertiary…
In Charbonneau v. Chartis Property Casualty Company, the court dismissed an assignee’s claims for breach of implied duty of good faith and fair dealing because…