Dude, Where’s the Insurance Company’s Claims Manual?
In most California Insurance Bad Faith lawsuits, the most important document to obtain in discovery is the insurance company’s claims manual. The insurance defense attorney knows how damaging the...
View ArticleCalifornia Insurance Companies Must Defend an Insured Where There is a...
California insurance companies have an obligation to their insureds to pay up to the policy limits for covered claims. We call this the duty to “indemnify” for covered claims. The duty to indemnify is...
View ArticleCalifornia Insurance Company Duty to Defend (Part One): Gray v. Zurich...
I’m starting a series of blog posts about an insurer’s duty to defend its insured in a third party lawsuit. The general premise of these articles focuses on an insurer’s duty to defend where...
View ArticleBecome a Discovery Ninja: Setting up a Workflow for Responding to California...
Responding to written discovery can be overwhelming. In most cases defense attorneys send the bulk of written discovery early on in a lawsuit. This discovery generally includes Form Interrogatories,...
View ArticleBecome a Discovery Ninja: Part Two
I posted an earlier blog post “Become a Discovery Ninja: Setting up a Workflow for Responding to California Discovery”, which I encourage you to read first before reading the current posting. You can...
View ArticleA Practical Postmortem: Convincing Opposing Counsel to Dissect a California...
At the end of every case—whether it’s settled or by way of judgment after a trial—I ask the opposing attorney to sit down with me to do a full review of the case. All issues in the case are open for...
View ArticleSetting the Table for Bad Faith Claims: How attorney malpractice insurance...
From time to time we have clients come to our office upset that the attorney who drafted their parents’ California estate plan (i.e., living trust, will, and durable powers of attorney) got it wrong or...
View ArticleOn the Rise: California Trust and Will Legal Malpractice Lawsuits
With the baby boomers beginning to pass away in more numbers, there will be an increase in legal malpractice lawsuits by beneficiaries against estate planning attorneys who improperly drafted...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know When an Estate Plan Goes Awry: The complex road of...
There are times when people try to implement an estate plan, but things go awry. And that can happen when an attorney makes a mistake in drafting a California Trust or Will resulting in legal...
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Good Lawyers Sometimes Lose Tough Cases…And Great Lawyers Lose More Often
As a lawyer I can’t guarantee you a win. If I could I would be the most successful lawyer on the face of the planet. But any lawyer who guarantees a result isn’t being truthful. And any lawyer who...
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