Insurance Coverage Archives - The Thompson Law Firm https://thethompsonlawfirm.net/category/insurance-coverage/ Fort Myers Florida Trial Attorney Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:45:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Insurance Coverage Issues and Fighting Through Delay https://thethompsonlawfirm.net/coverage-issues-and-delay/ Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:42:40 +0000 https://thethompsonlawfirm.net/?p=23645 When insurance carriers and defense lawyers fight among themselves, the victims of negligence and defective products sometimes endure delays. The primary insurer for a Colorado climbing gear company said an excess insurer’s bid to get out of liability for a climber’s injuries should be heard in a Washington state malpractice suit, arguing in a motion […]

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The primary insurer for a Colorado climbing gear company said an excess insurer’s bid to get out of liability for a climber’s injuries should be heard in a Washington state malpractice suit, arguing in a motion that the policy dispute is “intertwined” with lawyer misconduct in the underlying product liability case.

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Here are links to just a few of the cases in which I fought through coverage issues to obtain full recoveries for my clients:

Owens v. Nationwide

Signorelli v. Fireman’s Fund

Bethany Morris

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]]> Pitards and Hoisting Come to Mind https://thethompsonlawfirm.net/pitards-and-hoisting-come-to-mind/ Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:55:33 +0000 https://thethompsonlawfirm.net/?p=23510 Insurance companies often use service deadlines to avoid responsibility when plaintiffs have trouble with service of process. I don’t remember seeing an insurance company’s lawyers have the same problem. An insurance company that wanted to avoid defending a company that inspected and certified an amusement park drop tower ride that fatally ejected a 14-year-old boy […]

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]]> Insurance companies often use service deadlines to avoid responsibility when plaintiffs have trouble with service of process. I don’t remember seeing an insurance company’s lawyers have the same problem.

An insurance company that wanted to avoid defending a company that inspected and certified an amusement park drop tower ride that fatally ejected a 14-year-old boy failed to prove that it had served the defendants with notice of its suit, putting an early end to its case, a Florida federal judge decided Tuesday.

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