Kentucky ERISA Disability & Life Insurance Claim Lawyers

In Kentucky, an insurance company is not the only party that can be sued for its involvement in insurance bad faith. In fact, insurance adjusters can also be sued for their liability in practicing insurance bad faith. Two Kentucky circuit courts have refused to dismiss allegations made against insurance adjusters. The defendants in both cases…

On January 31, 2017, Honorable Thomas D. Wingate, Franklin Circuit Court’s Division II Judge, granted Plaintiff Lisa Warren’s motion for partial summary judgment and denied Defendant Auto-Owners’ motion for summary judgment. The Court held that Ms. Warren had satisfied the first prong of the test for a first-party bad faith claim as required in Wittmer…

In Hollaway v. Direct General Ins. Co. of Miss., 497 S.W.3d 733 (Ky. 2016), the Kentucky Supreme Court addressed the first substantive insurance bad faith case to come before it in ten (10) years. In its decision, the Court affirmed a summary judgment granted by Fayette Chief Regional Circuit Judge Thomas Clark, who had found…

Austin Mehr will be in Bowling Green on Thursday, January 12, 2017, to speak to the Warren County Bar Association regarding insurance bad faith. Austin’s insurance bad faith seminar will be held at 440 Main Restaurant located at 440 E. Main Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky, beginning at 11:00 a.m. CST.

On Monday, August 15, 2016, Austin Mehr is scheduled to speak to the Marshall County Bar Association about insurance bad faith law in Kentucky. The seminar is at 12:00 p.m. in the Marshall County Judicial Building, Grand Jury Room, 80 Judicial Drive, Benton, KY.