Bellevue, WA
Insurance Lawyer at Bellevue, WA
Practice Areas: Insurance, Employee Benefits
OUTCOME: Appellate court upheld trial court win.
Ninth Circuit confirmed that death from driving while intoxicated is an accident under the law, and thus covered by an accidental death & dismemberment policy.
OUTCOME: Farmers' motion was denied in full and Plaintiff was able to proceed to trial.
Farmers Insurance erroneously assigned the wrong quality grade to their insured's home. When it burned down in the Tubbs Fire, the insured was underinsured by $2 million. Farmers moved for summary judg ... ment, asking the court to find in its favor on all legal issues. Plaintiff successfully blocked Farmers' attempt and kept all causes of action for trial.
OUTCOME: The court held that the insurance company had failed to demonstrate that the insured should have expected to die as a result of his actions, and ordered the insurer to pay the benefits in full.
Plaintiff lost his son in a car accident and filed a claim for life insurance benefits under his employer policy, governed by ERISA. The insurer denied the claim because the son had been drinking and ... driving an automobile when he died.
OUTCOME: The court held that the insurer failed to sufficiently investigate the cause of her injury, choosing to assume that it was caused by her prior accident because that result was favorable for it.
Plaintiff had recovered from a prior car crash that broke her pelvis and returned to work at a new company. During her first year, while on a work trip, she felt a sharp pain in her hip and learned sh ... e had congenital hip impingement. After her surgeon botched the operation, she found herself disabled. The insurer denied her claim for disability benefits, stating that it was barred by the policy's pre-existing condition exclusion due to her prior treatment from the car accident.
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