Disputation on the power and efficacy of claims

Collaborating with adjusters to improve results and the practice

Miles B. Cooper

From Issue: 2025 January

Be an insurance Myth Buster!

Three myths – or soon to be myths – of insurance law in California

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2017 September

Appellate Reports

Barickman v. Mercury Cas. Co. — Court rejects the insurer’s argument that it acted in good faith as a matter of law by making an early tender of policy limits

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2016 October

Appellate Reports

Two rulings on insurance bad faith and the genuine-dispute doctrine

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2020 August

Buying immunity

The lid is off the policy! Can insurers immunize themselves from their bad-faith failure to settle by buying the bad-faith claim from their own policyholder?

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2019 September

Bad faith: Revisiting an insurer’s affirmative duty to settle

Absent a settlement demand, insurers have no duty to present a settlement offer where a verdict is likely to exceed the policy limit

Charles Miller

From Issue: 2016 September

Appellate Reports

Two rulings on insurance bad faith and the genuine dispute doctrine; also collateral estoppel in employment class actions

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2020 July

Appellate Reports

Bad-faith failure to settle examined based on contract law principle; also, COVID business interruption coverage

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2022 January