Submitted by Carri Leininger on 27 Nov, 2017
With Robert Gregory In State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. v. All Family Clinic of Daytona Beach, Inc., the circuit court in Volusia County ruled that an insurance carrier does not waive defenses related to reasonableness of charges by utilizing an auto-pay process when issuing payment. The case involved a…
Submitted by Carri Leininger on 03 Nov, 2017
In Mora v. Lancet, PX-16-960, 2017 WL 4618461 (D. Md., October 16, 2017), a federal court determined that an insurance company failed to prove that it was prejudiced by a doctor’s failure to cooperate in the defense of a medical malpractice. The Plaintiff in the underlying action filed a wrongful…
Submitted by Sebastian Poprawski on 23 Aug, 2017
Las Olas Holding Co. d/b/a Riverside Hotel v. Demella, No. 4D16-231, 2017 WL 3085329, at *2 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. July 19, 2017) During opening and closing arguments in a wrongful death action, Plaintiff’s counsel made various inappropriate statements. The law is clear, “[g]enerally, a mistrial or new trial should…