Jun 19, 2014 | Articles/E-Alerts
In many personal injury cases, a decision is made to retain an investigator to conduct surveillance to ascertain whether the plaintiff is truly as injured as claimed. In order to weigh the risks and benefits of this decision, the defense lawyer and carrier should know...
Jun 19, 2014 | Articles/E-Alerts
In its simplest and most frequently-seen form, “indemnification” in the context of insurance describes the right of one party (the “indemnitee”) to be protected by a second party (the “indemnitor”) from liability to a third party. The right of indemnification may...
Jun 19, 2014 | Articles/E-Alerts
By the slimmest of margins, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has again upheld the “household vehicle exclusion” in a case which was vigorously contested not only by the parties, but also by the leading professional associations of the plaintiff and insurance defense...
Jun 19, 2014 | Articles/E-Alerts
Lurking within most insurance policies issued in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a dreaded “severability clause”; the clause which provides that: “[t]his insurance applies separately to each insured.” What does it mean? What effect does it have on my policy’s...
Jun 19, 2014 | Articles/E-Alerts
On Tuesday, March 22, 2010, a Philadelphia Common Pleas jury entered a defense verdict in the first Post-Koken decision in Philadelphia County involving Progressive Insurance in the case of Horwitz v. Progressive Halcyon Insurance Company. Karl Stefan, Esquire and...
