Insurance Bad Faith Claims When an insurance company refuses to pay a claim that should be covered or when they drag out the process of approving or denying a claim, this can be considered bad faith. Suppose you feel your insurance company has acted in bad faith. In that case, you should seek legal advice from an experienced insurance bad-faith lawyer. Our qualified insurance bad faith lawyer in King County, WA, can review your case and determine if…Read More
Trial is the super bowl of litigation. Exhilarating and often stressful, trial represents the culmination of long hours spent in depositions, tedious months and years of gathering evidence and testimony, and second guessing the merits and pitfalls of a case. Trial is what all trial lawyers looks forward to when they start a case. Unfortunately, almost no one could have anticipated the need to try cases via Zoom or videoconferencing. If they talked about it in law school,…Read More
Underinsured/uninsured motorist (UIM) coverage provides coverage for bodily injury and/or property damage. In Washington, UIM coverage is optional, but an insurance company is required to offer it to policyholders at the time they apply for an automobile liability insurance policy. Generally, UIM coverage operates to provide compensation to policyholders for injuries and/or damages suffered as a result of an automobile collision or pedestrian accident caused by a third party’s negligence. In a typical collision, both the collision and…Read More
When it’s time to settle your accident or injury claim with an insurance company, the company most likely will ask you to sign a release. Almost always prepared by the insurance company or its attorney, a settlement release is typically structured to contain all the legal formalities to make it a legally enforceable contract. So, a release is not something that you should sign without reading. It goes without saying that you should never sign a release if…Read More
