Who pays for coverage when a landlord's busted pipe damaged a tenant's property?

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A judge from the Eastern District of Louisiana has dismissed a case where the plaintiff's attorney didn't actually have an agreement with the plaintiff when the suit was filed.

Who pays for coverage when a landlord's busted pipe damaged a tenant's property?

"Fees continue accruing through entry of judgment," said plaintiff attorney Brendan Flanagan. "Allstate knew a pending 9-11-68 motion was incoming, and additional pre-judgment interest under 51-12-14. They agreed to settle all claims for $300,000."

"We spent a lot of time trying to figure out how we would explain to the jury that this was a million-dollar injury," said Michael Rafi of the Rafi Law Firm in Atlanta.

The number of civil cases that make it to trial in Fourth Circuit has seen an extreme decrease in the past 40 years. An amicus brief supporting the plaintiff cited statistics showing a mere 0.7% of cases went to trial in 2019, down from 8% of cases in 1973.