Christina Phillips | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog | February 22, 2019 Just last week, the Iowa Court of Appeals in 33 Carpenters Construction, Inc. v. The Cincinnati Insurance Company,1 held that 33 Carpenters, a contractor who was the assignee of a hail and wind storm claim, acted as an unlicensed public adjuster. 33 Carpenters, a home-repair… Continue reading Contractor Acted as an Unlicensed Public Adjuster, Notwithstanding Assignment of Claim and Benefits
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Restoration Contractors Providing Great Quality Workmanship Are Policyholder Friends But Many Insurance Companies Refuse To Pay For Quality
Chip Merlin | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog | February 17, 2019 Contractors often tell me and other Merlin Law Group attorneys of the crazy excuses and refusals insurance adjusters give to avoid paying for required construction materials, processes, and practices which constitute quality workmanship. Cheap and non-quality construction is easy to do and often… Continue reading Restoration Contractors Providing Great Quality Workmanship Are Policyholder Friends But Many Insurance Companies Refuse To Pay For Quality
It’s a Brand-New Ballgame. . .In Texas When it Comes to Filing Suit Against Your Property Adjuster
Kay Morgan | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog | February 18, 2019 Texas Insurance Code Section 542A.006, effective December 1, 2017, allows insurers to accept liability for the acts of their adjusters either before suit is filed or after suit is filed. If the election of liability is made before suit is filed, the in-state defendant adjuster… Continue reading It’s a Brand-New Ballgame. . .In Texas When it Comes to Filing Suit Against Your Property Adjuster
Assignment of Benefits Contracts are the Hot Topic of Discussion and Legislation in Florida, North Dakota and Elsewhere
Chip Merlin | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog | February 11, 2019 Merlin Law Group knowledge manager Ruck DeMinico sent me recent North Dakota legislation pertaining to Assignment of Benefit contacts. This topic was also hotly debated two weeks ago at the Windstorm Insurance Conference in Orlando. Insurance restoration contractors, their lobbyists and attorneys are desperately trying to prevent any… Continue reading Assignment of Benefits Contracts are the Hot Topic of Discussion and Legislation in Florida, North Dakota and Elsewhere
Certified Question Asks Washington Supreme Court Whether Insurer is Bound by Contradictory Certificate of Insurance
Tred R. Eyerly | Insurance Law Hawaii | December 17, 2018 The Ninth Circuit certified a question to the Washington Supreme Court as follows: Under Washington law, is an insurer bound by representations made by its authorized agent in a certificate of insurance with respect to a party’s status as an additional insured under a… Continue reading Certified Question Asks Washington Supreme Court Whether Insurer is Bound by Contradictory Certificate of Insurance