We are now on the sixth most popular post in my annual top ten countdown of blog and LinkedIn posts from the year just gone by. You can find the rules of the contest here.
The post that finished sixth asks the seemingly eternal question of “What Do You Do on Appeal With a
This post continues the countdown of my top ten posts of 2025. I was aiming to finish the countdown by the first of the year, but the road to heck is paved with good intentions and all that. I will now settle for finishing the countdown before the last week of the month if I
And their off! The old racing call seems like a good fit for the first week of a new business year, as everything and everyone that was put to the side for the last two weeks of December comes racing back onto the desktop.
And so it has been as well with articles, blog posts
Are you old enough to remember Soviet figure skating judges in the Winter Olympics? They used to be accused all the time of putting their thumb on the scale, lowering the allegedly “objective” scoring for American skaters so as to get the results they wanted. If you recall, I reserved the same right this year
I have been thinking more and more about the tactical questions raised by the recent $90 million bad faith judgment under Massachusetts Chapter 93A against Liberty Mutual, which I discussed here. By sheer good timing, it was issued just as I was leaving to attend a major insurance coverage conference and also just before
For this week’s Five Favorites for Friday, I have a full stocking of gifts (too early for Xmas allusions? Maybe, but I was in New York for work and saw the Rockefeller Center Tree, which inspired that lede). Let’s get right into opening them up (and yes, I will probably beat that gag to death
About 24 years ago I won a trial on behalf of Liberty Mutual in an insurance bad faith action in which plaintiff’s counsel sought to multiply an underlying multimillion dollar judgment against the insured based on an alleged bad faith failure by the insurer to settle the tort claim. At the time, it represented –
I have litigated, arbitrated and advised on coverage and bad faith disputes from the U.K. to Guam and in every or practically every American jurisdiction in-between. (If you add in reinsurance claims I have worked on, you can add a couple more continents to the list).
Coverage itself, because it’s basically at heart a contract
I am returning to an old chestnut on my blog, a section which went dormant to some degree over the years, namely the section on interviews. They take a little time to do well, and podcasts (with their reliance on guests) seemed to have swallowed the field, so I stopped focusing on them. However, both
When I was growing up back in the seventies, one of the highlights of the end of the year was that the rock stations would all compile lists of the top songs of the year, and then play them all in one long countdown – often without any ads! There was no Spotify yet, or