Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Litigation in 2022: Best Practices for Resolving Insurance Disputes
The past months have seen a rise in new insurance coverage and bad faith filings. Notably, a significant number of claims filed at both federal and state courts were dismissed favoring insurers due to the lack of “direct physical loss or damage” to property. In the recent McNamara v. Government Employees Insurance decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed the Florida district court’s decision dismissing the bad faith claim. The Eleventh Circuit held that “consent judgment is the ‘functional equivalent of an excess judgment that permits the insured to proceed against the insurer for bad faith.”
As the latest court decisions continue to impact the regulatory landscape, it is critical for claim professionals to stay on top of the latest developments surrounding insurance laws. They must also be proactive in reassessing their policies to avoid bad faith claims and other legal pitfalls.
This course brings the audience to a road beyond the basics of preparing for and defending against bad faith litigation. In this engaging discussion, the speakers will also share fresh insights and strategies for the counsel to boost their chance of winning coverage and bad faith lawsuits.
Field of Study: Finance
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Managing Partner Rebar Kelly
Kimberly M. Parson, Esq. is the Managing Partner for the New Jersey office of Rebar Kelly, in the firm’s Saddle Brook, New Jersey office, where she represents clients in complex commercial litigation, focusing on insurance coverage, general commercial litigation, personal injury liability, legal and medical malpractice, products liability, environmental liability and mass torts. Her practice also involves providing coverage opinions and advice to insurance carriers concerning their coverage obligations under several types of insurance policies including comprehensive general liability, group property and casualty lines, public entity insurance, specialty and professional risk, excess, contractors, automobile liability, E&O insurance, D&O coverage, cyber insurance, and employer’s liability coverage.
Shareholder at Currie Johnson & Myers, P.A
Known as Ned to his friends and clients, Mr. Currie has been practicing law in the State of Mississippi since graduating from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1976. In addition to eight years of teaching as an adjunct professor at the Mississippi College School of Law, Mr. Currie’s practice has run the gamut of insurance defense matters. He has served on the faculties of the International Association of Defense and Corporate Counsel Trial Academy, The National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and Trial Academies of the Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association. Mr. Currie has forty years’ experience in the courtroom and has tried over one hundred seventy-five cases to verdict. His practice covers the range of insurance defense matters, including numerous significant cases in the fields of large loss and complex insurance coverage claims and bad faith. He is a frequent lecturer locally and nationally on insurance topics and has published articles on insurance coverage issues.
