When I was a kid in Maplewood, New Jersey, our next-door neighbor was a feisty Irish widow named Anne Byrne. (She was related to our former Governor, Brendan Byrne, but I forget how.) When I would do something stupid, which usually involved putting some kind of ball through one of her windows, she would grab
Voluntary payments
Coverage for class action settlements
By Gene Killian on
Here’s a fairly frequent scenario in the insurance world. The carrier takes a “no- pay” position on a liability claim. The policyholder settles the case and then seeks reimbursement from the carrier in a coverage suit. What exactly does the policyholder have to prove in order to get paid?
In Fireman’s Fund v. Security Ins.