The plaintiff in this case sued Paul Revere Life Insurance Co., alleging that Paul Revere had engaged in bad faith and that Paul Revere had breached his disability insurance policy by terminating his disability benefits. The district court dismissed the plaintiff’s bad faith claim, and denied the plaintiff’s two motions for reconsideration.

Shortly before trial

After a fire damaged a house in Wilson, North Carolina, that was owned by Cully’s Motorcross Park, Inc., its president and sole stockholder, Laurie Volpe, submitted a claim to North Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company, the insurer for Cully’s. Farm Bureau began an investigation and ultimately denied the claim, citing its suspicion that the

Montvale Surgical Center, LLC, an outpatient ambulatory surgery center, performed three “medically necessary” spinal manipulation under anesthesia (MUA) procedures on New Jersey resident Gerald Tyska at its facility. Tyska subscribed to a fully-funded group health insurance plan maintained by Coventry Health Care, Inc., and assigned his rights under the plan to Montvale.

Montvale submitted requests

In 2009, Laura Symczyk, who had been employed by Genesis Healthcare Corporation as a registered nurse at its Pennypack Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, filed a complaint on behalf of herself and “all other persons similarly situated” – known as a “collective action” – that alleged that Genesis had violated the federal Fair Labor Standards Act

Over a decade ago, in an effort to reduce no-fault insurance fraud involving the improper ownership or licensing of medical providers, the New York State Insurance Department (the precursor to the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”)), adopted a regulation that declared that a health care services provider was eligible for reimbursement from

The plaintiff in this case worked for American International Group (AIG) and participated in its group long term disability benefit plan, which was governed by the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and administered by Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company. After several hospitalizations, the plaintiff filed a claim for long term

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Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Ford
No. 16, Sept. Term 2012 (Md. Feb. 26, 2013)

The Court of Appeals of Maryland has adopted standards for medical monitoring and fear-of-cancer claims in a pair of companion decisions regarding alleged exposure to methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) and benzene arising

The plaintiffs in this case brought a class action in federal court against Comcast Corporation and Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC, alleging among other things that the defendants had violated the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act (IWPCA) which requires every employer “at least semi-monthly, to pay every employee all wages earned during the semi-monthly pay

No-fault insurance fraud continues to plague New York, with estimates of its cost to consumers and insurance carriers reaching hundreds of millions of dollars.[1] The growing wave of fraud persists notwithstanding efforts by federal and state prosecutors to bring criminal actions seeking to punish alleged fraud[2] – and despite guilty pleas in some of these actions.[3] 

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled that a former employee of the Central Islip Public Library may not bring an employment discrimination claim against the library under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”).

The circuit court’s decision, in which Rivkin Radler LLP represented the library, resolves an