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Perspective

Jan. 21, 2012

Update on an insurance company’s right to intervene

Learn the truth behind a common assumption about an insurer's right to intervene. By Howard Garfield of Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson LLP


By Howard Garfield


Most attorneys who try personal injury, defective products and property damage cases are familiar with the occasional, but not infrequent, intervention of a defendant's liability insurer in the case. This most commonly occurs when an insured defendant is insolvent or suspended, in the case of a corporation, or has refused or failed to cooperate in his or her defense by failing to respond to discovery requests.


In these situations...

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