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• Michigan Insurance Update ( June 2000 )
  Pepper Hamilton LLP

  This newsletter updates readers with the state of the law in Michigan relating to insurance issues.

• Insurance Company Liability for Bad Faith in Pennsylvania: Plaintiff's Perspective ( May 2000 )
  Alexander J. Jamiolkowski of Alexander J. Jamiolkowski

  Bad Faith The idea that a person could sue his insurance company for its misdeeds in handling claims under a .

• Failure To Disclose Policy Limits Exposes Liability Carrier To An Excess Judgment, Even Without A Policy Limits Demand ( March 2000 )
  

  This article discusses the Boicourt v. Amex Assurance Company decision whereby the California Court of Appeal held that an insurer had a duty to contact the policyholder to ask permission to reveal the policy limits to a third party in advance of filing a lawsuit.

• Insurer's Wrongful Failure to Defend Gives Rise to Breach of Contract Action ( December 1999 )
  Steven E. Leder of Niles, Barton & Wilmer, LLP

  In Mesmer v. MAIF, No. 50 Sept. Term, 1966 (filed 3/11/99) Maryland's highest court held that an insurer's refusal .

• Bad Faith Insurance Claims ( June 1999 )
  Michael L. Weiner of Yaeger, Jungbauer & Barczak, PLC

  The term "bad faith" is an unfortunate misnomer that is probably responsible for more confusion than understanding among the bench and bar.

• Public Adjustors: Loss Payees or Assignees -- An Analysis of Their Right to Recover Bad Faith Damages Against an Insurer ( June 1999 )
  Rick  Hammond of

  TABLE OF CONTENTS BACKGROUND LAW AND ARGUMENT CONCLUSION BACKGROUND Back The terms of most property pol.

• Insurance Bad Faith and Related Topics ( April 1999 )
  Sanford  Thompson of

  Bad faith is a hybrid tort similar to, yet different and distinct from, an action for breach of contract.

• Professional Liability Insurance: Liability For Bad Faith Refusal To Settle ( January 1999 )
  Gaines, Wolter & Kinney, P.C.

  Evans v. Mutual Assurance, Inc., 7 ALW 35-10 (1970786), 1999 WL 7026 (Alabama Supreme Court, January 8, 1999): Owen.

• Recent Insurance Case Law in Texas ( September 1998 )
  Hays, McConn, Rice & Pickering, P.C.

  A. DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BAD FAITH: 1. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. .

• Duty of Good Faith Further Limited by Texas Supreme Court ( December 1996 )
  Greenberg Peden P.C.

  The Texas Supreme Court has further limited the "duty of good faith and fair dealing", ruling in a per curiam opinion issued October 18, 1996 that an insurer does not owe its insured a duty to investigate and defend claims against the insured by a third party.