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What Do I Do If My Insurance Company Commits Bad Faith?
As experienced San Francisco insurance lawyers, this is one of the most common questions we hear. What can you do if your insurance company commits bad faith? Below, we discuss five important steps to take if you believe your insurance [...]
The Insurance Company’s Duty of Good Faith to You
When Your Claim Is Denied, What Can You Do? A slip and fall or an unexpected car crash could turn your life upside down. When you suffer an injury, you believe that your insurance company will uphold their end of [...]
5 Ways Insurance Companies Can Wrong Their Clients
Consumers are often dismayed to find out just how far their insurance company will go to deny a claim, raise their rates, or deny coverage entirely despite insurance law in San Francisco and the rest of California. Many people believe [...]
Do You Need An Expert To Prove Bad Faith?
In a bad faith case, use of an "insurance" expert can be discretionary. Numerous cases have held that it is not necessary to use an expert to prove bad faith. For example, in DeChant v. Monarch Life Insurance Company, (1996) 200 Wis. [...]
Proving Pattern And Practice Depositions, Documents and Experts
Discovery is tedious, monotonous, boring, repetitive, time consuming and unexciting. Nevertheless, most victories at trial or good settlements depend on the quality of the discovery that takes place before. Plaintiffs' firms are usually much smaller and have fewer resources than [...]