This case involves first party property damage claims under a homeowners policy, arising from water damage after a hurricane. Ultimately, the insurer did not dispute…
Category: PA – Experts
This is a delay in payment bad faith case, based on fire damage to a home. There is no dispute case coverage was due, and…
EXPERT CANNOT TESTIFY ON ULTIMATE LEGAL ISSUES OF REASONABLENESS OR BAD FAITH (Philadelphia Federal)
This COVID-19 coverage case, involving an All-Risk business policy, had been allowed to proceed under a reasonable expectations theory. The insured obtained an expert report…
“All too often, we tend to demonize someone who sees things in a different light. But a disagreement can be honest. Two different people can…
The claim involves property losses to a hydroponic organic farming operation, where the event causing the loss was in dispute. Both parties engaged experts to…
Applying Daubert, Eastern District Judge John Gallagher permitted the plaintiff’s bad faith expert to testify in this bad faith case. Qualifications First, the court found…
This case involved a dispute over whether the insurer acted in bad faith by paying for a damaged car’s value, instead of paying to repair…
The case involved a skylight atrium collapse in an apartment building. The policy at issue provided coverage for collapse, but only within certain exceptions. The…
The insurer denied long term disability benefits to an insured with multiple sclerosis. She sued for breach of contract and bad faith, and the insurer…
On July 19th, Judge Stickman held in Stegena v. Nationwide, that simply pleading the insured’s injuries are worth significantly more than the carrier’s valuation of…