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Think You Have a Bad Faith Case? Here’s What Courts Actually Require in California

A recent federal court ruling in California involving State Farm and a commercial policyholder offers an important lesson for anyone litigating insurance bad...

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Think You Have a Bad Faith Case? Here’s What Courts Actually Require in California

A recent federal court ruling in California involving State Farm and a commercial policyholder offers an important lesson for anyone litigating insurance bad...

Who Owns the Customer? Carrier-Agency-Producer-Client Relationships in 2026

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What Insurance Agencies Should Know Before Migrating to a New Agency Management System

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Contractors and Roofers “No Out of Pocket” Promises Are Backfiring

There are moments when a court opinion stops me cold. Not because it is wrong or that it is something that has never...

Reading Between the Lines of California’s $22.4 Billion Wildfire Claims Announcement

California’s Department of Insurance recently issued a press release announcing that insurers have paid $22.4 billion to wildfire survivors. 1 On its face,...

Risk Scores, Wildfires, and the Quiet Remaking of Property Insurance

The start of a new year is a good time to reflect on how quietly, and sometimes invisibly, fundamental systems change. Few forces...

Fortuity Reconsidered: Why an Unwritten Doctrine Still Haunts Property Insurance

For nearly a century, courts and commentators have treated fortuity as if it were a natural law of insurance rather than what it...

Is a Crack to an Opal a Fortuitous Loss?

One year following the fortuitous loss case Mellon v. Federal Insurance Company, which I wrote about yesterday in The First Discussion of Fortuity...

First Fortuity Case | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog

The modern debates over fortuity in all-risk insurance often feel abstract, as if the concept emerged fully formed from mid-twentieth-century treatises or contemporary...

The Basics of All Risk Insurance and Fortuity

My recent article, What does “Fortuitous” Mean? Why Is “Fortuity” So Important to Property Insurance? seems like a good time to restate some basic...

What Does “Follow the Form” Mean In Modern Insurance Practice?

Reading Surplus Lines Property Policies in a Tower of Insurance After Ohio Casualty v. Patterson-UTI Energy Commercial property losses involving surplus lines insurance rarely...

What does “Fortuitous” Mean? Why Is “Fortuity” So Important to Property Insurance?

Insurance disputes often turn on small words that carry enormous consequences. Few words are as deceptively simple and as consequential as “fortuity.” It...

Happy Holidays from Merlin Law Group

As the year comes to a close, we want to take a moment to wish our clients, colleagues, and friends a joyful holiday...

Why Christmas Is the Right Time to Thank the People We Disagree With

Christmas Eve has a way of slowing us down, whether we like it or not. The calendar forces a pause. The noise quiets....

Wildfire Smoke Damage Insurance Rights

As an attorney who has spent years fighting for policyholders, I’ve seen how wildfire recovery has shifted from simple “char and ash” claims...