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What Are Typical Types of Property Loss Insurance Policies?

Property insurance exists so people can transfer the financial risk of damage to their property to an entity with much deeper pockets. In exchange for...

What Are the Types of Damages for Insurance Bad Faith?

When your insurance company acts in bad faith, you may be able to recover losses caused by the insurer’s actions. When you take legal action...

What Are the Most Common Causes of Pedestrian Accidents?

Getting hit by a car while walking in a public place can be very traumatic and can change your life.  You may be facing years...

Long-Term and Short-Term Disability Insurance Claim Denials

Long-Term Disability Insurance Attorneys Leverty & Associates Law Chtd. has experience with long-term and short-term disability insurance claim denials. One buys short-term and long-term disability...

What Is Failure to Defend?

Failure to Defend One of the protections provided under an automobile policy, a homeowner’s insurance policy or commercial general liability policy is liability coverage. Liability...

Fernley Flood

A number of cases have been filed in the wake of the January 2008 Fernley Flood wherein Leverty & Associates Law Chtd. has been named...

Cancer and Specified Disease Insurance

Cancer and Specified Disease Insurance provides benefits, usually directly payable to you, if you get the identified disease the policy specifically covers. A good example...

What Actions Are Insurance Companies Prohibited from Doing?

Prohibited acts by insurance companies can include asserting an exclusion that doesn’t apply, or blatantly denying a claim, even though there is overwhelming evidence showing...

Appealing a Denial of a Claim under Your Homeowners Insurance

Q: What is the appeal process if my claim is wrongfully denied? When an insurance company denies your claim wrongfully, the appeal process depends on...

Homeowners Insurance Company Claims Investigations

What kinds of information might an insurance company request in the course of an investigation into a claim? The insurance company has no incentive economically...