Insurance providers have been inundated with claims since the outbreak of COVID-19 and subsequent nationwide shutdown. In true pandemic-style, countless disputes have followed on all matters of insurance policies. Whether you’re preparing litigation related to property damage, business interruption, or workers’ compensation, an insurance claim expert witness will be an important resource to support the policy specifics of any insurance bad faith case.
An insurance claim expert witness can discuss:
Policy coverage terms
Viral exclusion clauses
Civil authority clauses
State legislation mandating certain insurance payouts
Insurance benchmarks from previous pandemic coverage
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Mr. Douglas G. DePhillips has 31 years of experience in Construction and Architecture with expertise in Construction Management. He earned his BEng in Civil Engineering from Manhattan College. Formerly, this expert served as the Deputy Operations Manager of the Miami Business Unit at Turner Construction Company and as an Executive Vice President of Strategic Growth and the Chief Strategy Officer at J.S. Held LLC. Currently, this expert is a Senior Executive Vice ...
Mr. James T. Schmid has over 23 years of experience in the fields of Accounting, Business Valuation, and Fraud. He earned his BS in Engineering from Oakland University and his MBA in Accounting and Finance from Ross School of Business. Today, this expert is Accredited in Business Valuation and Certified in Financial Forensics by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is a Certified Public Accountant in Illinois and Michigan. Formerly, this expert held ...
Ms. Susan L. Combs has over 20 years of experience in Insurance and Claims. She earned her BS in Hotel and Restaurant Management from the University of Missouri Columbia. Today, this expert is a Certified Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Professional, Chartered Health Consultant by the National Association of Health Underwriters, and is licensed as an Insurance Producer in over 25 states. Formerly, she served as a Sales Marketing Specialist at Paychex, Inc, as ...
This highly-qualified expert has 45 years of experience in insurance and risk management, specializing in questionable claims practices, policy rescission, bad faith conduct, coverage disputes, producer professional liability, and insurer insolvency. He holds several professional designations, including Associate in Risk Management, Accredited Advisor in Insurance, and Registered Professional Liability Underwriter. He is also licensed as an insurance producer, a claims ...
This highly qualified insurance claims adjuster is dual-licensed in multiple states for property and casualty claims and claims handling. He has over 30 years of experience specializing in property losses for both commercial and residential with an emphasis on residential property claims, including third-party property liability. This expert received his BS in management studies from the University of Maryland and has gone on to complete numerous training courses in his ...
This expert has a thirty year association in the Life and Disability Income Insurance Industry. For twenty-eight years he was associated with The Union Central Life Insurance Company. During that time he was involved in numerous claim/policy service matters and supervised claim litigation. He also conducted California Fraud Training for over twenty years with claim examiners with a concentration in the Bad Faith area. In addition, was a former Life Insurance Sales Agent ...
This expert has extensive experience with insurance. He gained his MBA from Pennsylvania State University, his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his JD from the University of Minnesota. He served as the deputy commissioner and acting chief counsel for the Pennsylvania Insurance Department. He has also served as an insurance consultant to many corporations, state and local governments and was the chair of the finance, real estate, and law department at ...
This expert began his career in underwriting in the 1960's, managing a regional general agency with broad underwriting authority specializing in property real and personal coverage, running the gamut from simple auto and homeowners’ policies to complex property, inland marine, manufacturer’s output and ocean marine policies. When he sold his agency in 1988, he had 60 employees and annual revenues in excess of $10,000,000. His career also includes a wealth of claims ...
This expert has over 50 years of experience in the field of insurance claims. He has experience working in in claim handling custom and practice, claim adjusting, coverage interpretation, and SIU practices. He is certified as a Casualty Claims Law Associate, Legal Principals Coverage Specialist, and a Registered Professional Adjuster, among others. He is active as a member of the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance, previously serving as the President of the ...
This highly qualified expert has over 30 years of experience in the insurance industry. He has served in a variety of roles for various insurance companies, including Property Adjuster, Field Underwriter, Personal Lines District Manager, Commercial Lines District Manager, Territory Manager and Territorial Business Manager. He has first-hand experience in personal lines, commercial lines, farm lines, working with affluent family accounts and providing long-term risk ...
This expert has over 30 years experience as an insurance claim adjuster specializing in helping clients manage residential and commercial insurance claims after natural disasters or fires damage their property. He is a graduate of University of Central Oklahoma and a Certified Property Manager (CPM) with the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM). He is licensed in 11 states. He is currently the Regional Director at a public insurance adjusting company where he ...
This experienced insurance expert has extensive background in claims management for personal, commercial, and specialty lines of business. He began his career as a Multi-Line Adjuster with Commercial Union Insurance Company and remained with the entity for 32+ years after it became CGU Insurance and OneBeacon Insurance Group through acquisitions. Most recently, the expert served as the Senior Vice President & Head of Claims for OneBeacon Insurance Company from 2006 until ...
A Missouri college is in the process of suing an insurance company for its failure to provide coverage related to COVID-19 economic losses. The Lindenwood Female College of Saint Charles is suing Zurich American Insurance Company in a class action…
Geico Corp., a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is facing a class action lawsuit. Its Illinois customer base alleges that the company engaged in deceptive marketing practices and charged excessive premiums. Although the U.S. District Court granted Geico’s…
Lawyers for struggling restaurants trying to stay afloat during the COVID-19 restrictions will be happy to learn about two recent insurance claim cases. Before these rulings, judges have typically sided with the insurance carriers, denying business interruption coverage to claimants.…
The COVID-19 pandemic has damaged businesses around the globe, causing financial disaster and bankruptcy across many industries. As a company’s survival is now based on their ability to make a profit in the midst of COVID-19, disclosures to its shareholders…
In response to denied business interruption insurance claims, thousands of small business owners have turned to legal action against their insurers—with mixed results. But one case, filed by a Louisiana restaurant group, has recently survived a summary judgment motion filed…
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Miami Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Royale Green Condo Ass’n v. Aspen Specialty Ins. Co Citation: 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 48334 The plaintiff complained about the expert’s inability to…
Court: Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourth District, San Antonio Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: In re Ebin Citation: 2019 Tex. App. LEXIS 9856 The public adjuster hired by the realtors had a higher repair estimate than the insurance carrier. As…
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Three Rivers Hydroponics, LLC v. Florists’ Mut. Ins. Co. Citation: 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12644 In this insurance dispute, the plaintiff’s insurance expert witness opines…
Court: United States District Court for the District of Kansas Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Barcus v. Phoenix Ins. Co. Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12215 Here, the expert was retained to speak on the plaintiff’s cognitive condition as she observed…
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Allianz Life Ins. Co. of N. Am. v. Muse Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 217447 The plaintiff claims the insurance expert’s testimony is not valuable…
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Mcallen Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Flores v. Allstate Tex. Lloyd’s Co. Citation: 229 F. Supp. 2d 697 The expert, however, fails to support his conclusions with testing or…
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Meemic Ins. Co. v. Hewlett-Packard Co. Citation: 717 F. Supp. 2d 752 In this insurance dispute, an electrical engineering expert is tasked with…
Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Kanellakopoulos v. Unimerica Life Ins. Co. Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 78054 Facts The plaintiff, a Vietnam war veteran, filed this suit…
Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: State Auto. Mut. Ins. Co. v. Freehold Mgmt. Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 55052 Facts The plaintiff insurance company brought this case against…