After almost 20 years of reading judicial opinions from around the country discussing insurance bad faith, a common thread seems to be mentioned--communication (or lack of) by the insurance company with its insureds.
In these uncertain and unprecedented times, the Sandberg Phoenix Insurance Team, with decades of collective experience handling coverage matters in Missouri, Illinois and Kansas, stands ready, willing and able to assist insurers with COVID-19 related insurance coverage issues, including first-party business interruption claims.
Aaron French will be speaking with co-presenter Cory Person on December 6, 2019 at 10:15 a.m. (Eastern) in the session titled Ethical Issues with Sharing Information. He will be discussing the tripartite relationship and the ethical dilemmas which may arise for defense counsel retained by the insurance company to defend the insured.
In a matter of first impression, under Iowa law, the Iowa Supreme Court held a common law claim for bad faith failure to pay workers’ compensation benefits was not available against the third-party claims administrator (“TPA”).