all - Opinion Summaries

Liberty Nat'l Life Ins. Co. v. Bailey

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Health Law, Insurance Law
An order awarding attorneys' fees and costs under Florida Statutes section 627.428 to plaintiff in a breach of contract suit against her insurer is...

Menchise v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Summary judgment for an insurer on a bad faith claim brought on behalf of the bankruptcy estate of an insured involving an underlying automobile...

Shields v. Gov't Employees Hosp. Ass'n, Inc.

Contracts, Government Benefits, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Summary judgment for plaintiff against an insurer in a declaratory action to determine coverage for medical expenses arising out of plaintiff's...

AT&T Corp. v. Clarendon Am. Ins. Co.

Communications Law, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Insurance Law
Court grants AT&T leave to appeal an amended opinion and order granting summary judgment to multiple defendant-insurers, involving coverage under...

Empire Healthchoice Assurance, Inc. v. McVeigh

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, ERISA, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Dismissal, for want of subject-matter jurisdiction, of petitioner-carrier's suit seeking recovery from the proceeds of state-court litigation for a...

Howard Delivery Serv., Inc. v. Zurich Am. Ins. Co.

Bankruptcy Law, Debt Collection, ERISA, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In the context of bankruptcy law, premiums owed by an employer to a workers' compensation carrier do not fit within 11 U.S.C. section 507(a)(5), which...

Wausau Bus. Ins. Co. v. Quintana

Government Benefits, Insurance Law, Workers' Compensation
Order denying motion to dismiss on basis of worker's compensation immunity is affirmed where non-final orders of this kind are not appealable unless...

Williams v. Ins. Network, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Order vacating default judgments against insurance company and insurance agent is reversed where the defendants' motions were untimely.

Hill v. Hernandez

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In a case arising from a hit and run collision, the court finds that plaintiff's uninsured/underinsured motorist carrier was obligated to pay damages,...

I.U. N. Am., Inc. v. A.I.U. Ins. Co.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In an action for breach of contract, declaratory judgment, and ancillary relief to determine the responsibility for payment of liabilities for tort...