May a liability insurer discharge its obligations to its insured simply by interpleading its policy limits, even when doing so leaves the insured exposed to a multimillion-dollar excess judgment? The Georgia Court of Appeals recently answered that question in the negative. In Cannon v. Safeco Insurance Company of Illinois, — S.E.2d —-, 2026
This is the second in a series of discussions about insurance issues unique to the Lone Star State.
Both bankruptcy and the ability for a policyholder to assign its first-party, bad-faith claim against its insurer can be critical methods of risk mitigation. In our last post on Insurance – Texas Style, we looked at
Sometimes defining the simplest phrases proves anything but simple. So learned the insurer in a property loss and bad faith case brought by its insured and decided earlier this year by the Pennsylvania Superior Court (Watchword Worldwide v. Erie Ins. Co., 308 A.2d 728 (Pa. Superior Ct. 2024)).
Watchword Worldwide engaged in the business
A cross-office Bradley team recently scored a bad faith victory for Sinclair Oil on March 18, 2022. The case involved a hotly contested business interruption loss and the delayed and frustrating recovery process that followed. Sinclair believed that its post-fire business losses were clearly covered by their Marsh-manuscripted all risks policy and that it was