Insurance
Nov. 21, 2009
Trending Against the Broker
The law is no longer favoring brokers over policyholders.
Rex Heeseman
JAMS
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Email: rheeseman@jamsdar.com
Stanford Univ Law School
Rex Heeseman retired from the Los Angeles Count Superior Court bench in 2014. He is at JAMS, Los Angeles. Besides speaking at various MCLE programs, he co-authors The Rutter Group's practice guide on "Insurance Litigation." From 2002 to 2015, he was an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School.
Some legal areas are consistently predictable. Other areas "ebb and flow" - for instance, the rules with respect to the recovery of punitive damages. Those rules long favored the plaintiff, but recently have somewhat tilted towards the defendant.
Another example is policyholder versus broker. For a while, the latter generally prevailed over the former. Yet, as explained below, the tide has turned. The latest such example is Williams v. Hilb, Royal & Hobbs Ins. Svcs., 2009...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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