A plaintiff must present evidence of actual and reasonable reliance on a misrepresentation in order to make a successful claim for unfair and deceptive trade practices against an insurance agent, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled. ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A life insurance company has agreed to a $1.1 million penalty after North Carolina regulators found claims processing violations and delays, according to state Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey. Gerber Life Insurance Co., which the Department of ...

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  With restrictions on business openings extended into August, business owners are faced with mounting bills and an uncertain future. Many were somewhat reassured at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic because they thought their business interruption insurance claims would ...

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  A Currituck County woman’s “household” did not include the son, daughter-in-law, or granddaughter who lived in a nearby house on her family farm, a divided North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled, granting an insurer’s request to deny coverage ...

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An insurance company that denied benefits to a disabled plant manager in the face of overwhelming evidence of his total disability has been sharply rebuked by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which unanimously affirmed a federal judge’s ruling ...

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The defendant-insured stressed to the third-party defendant-insurance agency that trademark and copyright infringement coverage was important, and the list of policy exclusions that the agency provided at defendant’s request did not contain an exclusion for trademark or copyright infringement. However, ...

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An injured worker who suffered a traumatic brain injury after falling 18 feet onto concrete will be able to pursue a malicious prosecution claim against an insurance company that he says gave false information to police in an effort to ...

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Where defendant was charged with defrauding The Hartford Insurance Company, but where the state presented evidence only that defendant made fraudulent statements to Nationwide, the state failed to prove the crime for which defendant was indicted. We vacate defendant’s conviction ...

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Booth v. Hackney Acquisition Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-329-17, 12 pp.) (Hunter Murphy, J.) Appealed from the Industrial Commission. N.C. App. Holding: Although some occupational diseases, like the cancer that killed plaintiff’s decedent, do not develop for many years, the ...

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Nash Hospitals, Inc. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-231-17, 25 pp.) (Lucy Inman, J.) Appealed from Nash County Superior Court (Cy Grant, J.) N.C. App. Holding: The defendant-insurance company violated G.S. §§ 44-50 and 44-50.1 ...

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