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How Much Time May an Insurer Take to Evaluate Its Defense Obligations?
Perhaps No Time if a Responsive Pleading Is Due By Robert A. Crook, Esq. As those working in the legal field know, the old adage that “timing is everything” has special importance when evaluating insurance claims made by first-party insureds. Of course, claims representatives and attorneys find themselves in a…
Don’t Lien On Me
Court of Appeal Delivers a Blow to Civil Defendants in Personal Injury Cases Where Plaintiff’s Medical Providers Sell Their Liens to Factoring Companies as a Discount The landmark case of Howell v. Hamilton Meats & Provisions, Inc. (2011) 52 Cal.4th 541, held, quite simply, that evidence of the amount billed…