On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Feb 24, 2017 | Bad Faith, Breach of Contract, Disability Insurance, ERISA, ERISA - Church Plans, Firm News, Health/Medical Insurance, Insurance Bad Faith, Insurance Litigation Blog, Insurance Questions and Concepts, Life Insurance, Long Term Care Insurance, Property & Casualty Insurance
The McKennon Law Group PC periodically publishes articles on its California Insurance Litigation Blog that deal with related issues in a series of articles dealing with insurance bad faith, life insurance, long-term disability and short-term disability insurance,...
On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Oct 19, 2016 | Disability Insurance, ERISA, Firm News, Insurance Litigation Blog, Legal Articles, News Blog, Property & Casualty Insurance
In the October 18, 2016 edition of the Los Angeles Daily Journal, Robert McKennon and Scott Calvert of the McKennon Law Group published an article regarding the use of drones by insurance companies in their insurance claims investigations. In the article entitled...
On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Feb 11, 2016 | Case Updates, Firm News, Insurance Litigation Blog, Property & Casualty Insurance
A homeowners’ insurance policy does not always mean what it says. That is, in effect, what the California Court of Appeal recently concluded in Vardanyan v. AMCO Ins. Co., 243 Cal. App. 4th 779 (2015), a case involving the well-established “efficient proximate cause”...
On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Jun 3, 2015 | Disability Insurance News, Firm News, Insurance Litigation Blog, Policy Interpretation, Property & Casualty Insurance
We do not normally focus on dissents in our blogging but we made an exception here with a published Per Curiam opinion from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Guam Industrial Services, Inc. v. Zurich American Insurance Co., 2015 DJDAR 5948 (9th Cir. June 1, 2015). ...
On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Dec 11, 2014 | Breach of Contract, Case Updates, Firm News, Insurance Bad Faith, Property & Casualty Insurance
When a covered property is damaged, the insured may face a quintessential Catch-22—the insured cannot afford to proceed with costly repairs or replacement without insurance money, but until the repairs or replacements are finished, the insured cannot recover under the...
On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Apr 22, 2014 | Case Updates, Firm News, Negligence, Property & Casualty Insurance
The April 21, 2014 edition of the Los Angeles Daily Journal featured Robert McKennon’s article entitled: “New Liability for claim adjusters the right move.” In it, Mr. McKennon discusses a new case which exposes insurance adjustors to negligent misrepresentation and...
On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Sep 25, 2013 | Breach of Contract, Case Updates, Firm News, Insurance Bad Faith, Policy Interpretation, Property & Casualty Insurance
Commercial property owners may recover lost rental income from their insurer if they are unable to rent out damaged property, absent clear policy exclusions. The California Court of Appeal recently held the owner of commercial property has a reasonable expectation of...
On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Sep 5, 2013 | Directors & Officers Insurance, Duty to Defend, Firm News, Policy Interpretation, Property & Casualty Insurance
In a recent ruling, the California Court of Appeal held that an insurer’s general reservation of rights to deny coverage of damages outside its policy does not create a conflict of interest with the insured, such that the insured in entitled to Cumis counsel. The...
On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | May 10, 2013 | Duty to Defend, Firm News, Insurance Bad Faith, Property & Casualty Insurance
A recent California Court of Appeals decision sought to clarify the application of California Insurance Code Section 533.5(b) concerning the statute’s preclusion of an insurer’s duty to defend its insured in criminal actions. In Mt. Hawley Insurance Co. v. Richard...
On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Jan 10, 2013 | Case Updates, Firm News, Insurance Bad Faith, Property & Casualty Insurance
You have been probably wondering whether the filing of an insurance claim constitutes prelitigation activity that is protected under the anti-SLAPP statute, right? Well, if you were, you now have an answer: it is a resounding “maybe.” In People ex rel. Fire...
