This Q&A deals with an installer's instructions to a homeowner regarding the need for a replacement appliance and a claim for damages caused by the older appliance.

In updating the homeowners forms for 2022, ISO has created a new form, HO 00 14, Contents Comprehensive form. This form is designed for more mobile insureds who may be living with parents or others. This is the third of five articles analyzing the form, discussing Perils Insured Against and Exclusions.

Judge Frank Roesch said that language in the voter-approved ballot measure illegally infringes on the Legislature's role of overseeing the state's workers' compensation system.

The suit alleges that the insurer failed on its promise to collect, require, sell or share consumers' biometric data. Read the complaint here.

In this week's episode, business of law reporter Patrick Smith and McDermott Will & Emery chairman Ira Coleman discuss how to change the current law firm model to emphasize personal and professional fulfillment.

U.S. District Judge Michael Brown said the insurer's response to a woman's demand letter laying down conditions for paying the claim constituted a "counteroffer," creating a jury issue of whether the carrier acted in bad faith.

The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance and the District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking have both been reaccredited by the NAIC.

U.S. District Judge Michael Brown said the insurer's response to a woman's demand letter laying down conditions for paying the claim constituted a "counteroffer," creating a jury issue of whether the carrier acted in bad faith.

"I think it's a win for whichever party wants to be in federal court," Jay Lavroff, a lawyer at Lindabury, McCormick, Estrabrook & Cooper in Westfield, New Jersey, said. "In COVID business-interruption claims and virus-exclusion claims, cases that have been removed have been largely removed by insurance companies."

The donation follows a year in which shelters had to cover unexpected costs to accommodate pandemic-related renovations.