Plaintiffs allege in suits that insurers wrongly refused business interruption claims

Tagged with: business interruption coronavirus COVID-19 Denial Of Coverage Stueve Siegel Hanson The Cincinnati Insurance Co. U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Defendant, trustee for the heirs and next-of-kin of P.B., appealed from the district court’s grant of judgment on the pleadings to plaintiff in its declaratory-judgment action. P.B. was killed in a motor-vehicle accident with his grandmother Dawn Chiodo and Chiodo’s ...

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According to a personal injury lawyer the district court properly applied the statutory definition of an “insured,” there was no error in denying defendant’s claim for UIM benefits. Defendant, trustee for the heirs and next-of-kin of P.B., appealed from the district court’s ...

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Where appellants challenged the denial of coverage for an insurance claim, the district court properly granted summary judgment based on precedent that a vexatious-refusal claim must fail when the insurer has no duty to cover the loss at issue. Judgment ...

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Defendant, widow of an individual killed while driving a truck for his employer insured by plaintiff, filed a claim with plaintiff for UIM benefits. Plaintiff filed the present declaratory-judgment action. The trial court granted plaintiff’s summary judgment motion, ruling that ...

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(1)Where  a car buyer challenged the denial of insurance coverage on her claim that an auto dealer committed fraudulent misrepresentation, the judgment is affirmed in part because the policy unambiguously did not provide coverage for the intentional-fraudulent-misrepresentation claim, and the ...

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Spizman v. BCBSM, Inc. (MLW No. 70502/Case No. 16-1557 – 9 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Loken, J.)

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