During these difficult times, many businesses are finding their insurance carriers won’t cover claims resulting from COVID-19. As a result, many businesses are launching lawsuits against their insurers alleging bad faith. Because the coronavirus is setting new precedents for insurance coverage and fiduciary duty, proving claims of bad faith under COVID-19 will almost certainly require the support of a highly-qualified insurance bad faith expert witness.Â
An expert in bad faith claims can discuss:
Policy coverage and exclusions
An insurer’s duty of good faith
An insurer’s fiduciary duty
Civil authority coverage
Virus exclusions
If you’re preparing to litigate a case against an insurance bad faith claim related to COVID-19 management and would like to speak with an expert in bad faith claims, our team can custom-recruit the professional you need to secure justice for your clients.Â
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This highly qualified expert has nearly 30 years of experience in the legal sector. He received his AB in economics from UC Berkeley before earning his JD from Loyola Marymount University. This expert is also an accredited investment fiduciary. He specializes in insurance recovery and bad faith litigation, as well as ethics and compliance in the financial services profession. He is active in his field, having authored numerous periodicals and spoken at several ...
This expert has a thirty year association in the Life and Disability Income Insurance Industry. For twenty-eight years he was associated with The Union Central Life Insurance Company. During that time he was involved in numerous claim/policy service matters and supervised claim litigation. He also conducted California Fraud Training for over twenty years with claim examiners with a concentration in the Bad Faith area. In addition, was a former Life Insurance Sales Agent ...
This insurance industry veteran has 30+ years of experience in the field. He is currently active as the Owner of an insurance claims consulting business that provides P&C claim audits, studies of industry best practices, and expert witness testimony. Previously, the expert served as a Partner at Ernst & Young, where he was the National Practice Leader for the Property & Casualty claims consulting practice. The expert earned his B.S. in Mathematics from Elmhurst College ...
This insurance expert works as an independent claims consultant and expert witness, primarily in the areas of bad faith claims litigation for both plaintiffs and insurance defense. She has over 20 years of experience in the property & casualty industry, handling all levels of claims, including large loss and complex claims, as well as bad faith litigation. The expert holds the CPCU, AIC-M, and SCLA designations and spent much of her career with State Auto Insurance, ...
This insurance expert has been working in the industry since 1974. He earned his BS from California State University, Fresno and is a licensed chartered property casualty underwriter and a casualty claim law associate. He previously held positions at Devonshire Group, West Coast Casualty Service, American States Insurance Company, and AIM Insurance Company, among others. He has served as an independent consultant and adjuster for the last 13 years....
This highly-qualified expert in bankruptcy law has over 15 years of experience in his field, with extensive experience in myriad commercial law matters, including bankruptcy, contract disputes, commercial loans, financial restructuring, fiduciary duties, fraudulent transfer law, corporate responsibility, leveraged buyouts, and securities. He earned his BA in business administration from the University of Miami and his JD from the University of Michigan Law School. He is ...
This expert has over 40 years of claims experience, both as an adjuster and then as an in-house attorney advising adjusters on the proper standard of care in claims handling. He has represented numerous bad faith plaintiffs, and he also established the errors & omissions adjusting practices and auditing procedures for a major insurance company. The expert spent over 6 years as AIG's Western Zone Claims Council and 14 years as Executive Managing Attorney for USAA. He is ...
This highly qualified expert has over 30 years of experience in insurance claims and risk management. He earned his B.A. from Wake Forest University and his M.A. from the College of William & Mary. The expert holds the Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter designation, as well as specialty designations from the American Insurance Institute in Risk Management. He was most recently the Vice President of Risk Management Resources for Berkley Life Sciences and now runs ...
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Three Rivers Hydroponics, LLC v. Florists’ Mut. Ins. Co. Citation: 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12644 In this insurance dispute, the plaintiff’s insurance expert witness opines…
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Allianz Life Ins. Co. of N. Am. v. Muse Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 217447 The plaintiff claims the insurance expert’s testimony is not valuable…
Court: United States District Court for the District of Arizona Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Adams Craig Acquisitions LLC v. Atain Specialty Ins. Co. Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 129537 Facts This case involves an insurance claim dispute. The plaintiff construction…
This case involves an asset management firm that asked the plaintiff to use his connections to approach several banks for purchase of the banks’ mortgage loan portfolios. At the time, the plaintiff was working indirectly for the firm as a…
This case involves a volunteer firemen’s association that purchased accidental death and dismemberment insurance policies for its volunteers. The association purchased their policies from a fortune 500 insurance company and appointed an agency to procure life insurance coverage for the…
This case involves a real-estate development project near a new metro station. The metropolitan transit agency, which runs the metro rail system, controlled the real estate in question, because of its proximity to the metro station. The transit agency solicited…
This is a bad faith case that involves the alleged breach of an insurance contract and the alleged breach of duty for fair dealing.The plaintiffs were insured by the defendant, pursuant to a policy that provided insurance coverage for potential…
This case involves a furniture manufacturer that hired a logistics firm to transport a shipment of furniture valued at over $5 million from England to Illinois. While en route, the cargo was destroyed due to a shipping container accident on…
This case is a class action suit that arose from an alleged misrepresentation by the defendant of their high-speed internet and broadband services. It was alleged that the defendants misrepresented crucial information and mislead customers as to what they were…