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Insurance

Nov. 24, 2004

Insurers Should Be Barred From Using After-Acquired Evidence

All too often, insurers respond to a request for help from their insureds with a knee-jerk denial of coverage. Reasons provided for the denial are frequently unspecific and indicate minimal, if any, investigation by the insurer.

Timothy D. Reuben

Founder and CEO Reuben, Raucher & Blum

Phone: (310) 777-1990

Email: treuben@rrbattorneys.com

Reuben is the founder and CEO at Reuben Raucher & Blum. Alongside his extensive career as a civil litigator specializing in complex matters at both the trial and appellate level, he serves pro bono as a temporary judge and settlement officer for the Los Angeles Superior Court, as well as a fee arbitrator for the LA County Bar.

Nancy Sun-Huo Fong

Allen, Matkins, Leck, Gamble, Mallory & Natsis LLP

Phone: (213) 955-5648

Email: nfong@allenmatkins.com

All too often, insurers respond to a request for help from their insureds with a knee-jerk denial of coverage. Reasons provided for the denial are frequently unspecific and indicate minimal, if any, investigation by the insurer.

Even when the insured requests reconsideration of the denied claim, insurance companies frequently do little and give perhaps one or two alternative explanations that may provide absolutely no basis to support the insurer's denial.

Such conduct cons...

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