Insurance Coverage Blog
"The ultimate authority on all things related to Hurricane Katrina-related litigation and the circus that surrounds the main plaintiffs attorneys involved."
Author: David Rossmiller, managing editor of the Insurance Coverage Blog, is a partner at Dunn Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue in Portland, Ore., who specializes in complex commercial litigation, particularly insurance recovery and insurance coverage litigation. Before becoming a lawyer, David was an award-winning investigative, crime and political newspaper reporter, including eight years with the Phoenix Gazette, the now-defunct afternoon daily in Phoenix. He is admitted to the bar in both Oregon and Washington.
Blawg Related Categories: Insurance Law • Katrina • Partner
Recent Posts from Insurance Coverage Blog
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Renfroe v. Rigsby update, May 14
Time continues to be extraordinarily limited. Thanks to readers for pointing out the article in the New Yorker on Dickie Scruggs. I was called by one of the fact checkers for the magazine about the…
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Katrina litigation update/Trailer Lawyer update, May 13
This recent Anita Lee story in the Sun Herald tells how hundreds of former clients of the disqualified Katrina(less) Litigation Group have migrated, at the suggestion of KLG lawyer Don Barrett, to the Texas tobacco litigation firm…
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Scruggs Nation, May 12
The sun never sets on the Scruggs Nation. Sometimes it is eclipsed, true, but it never sets. Dickie Scruggs, after a long absence, is back in the news. This Clarion-Ledger story says the Justice Department…
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State Farm reaches settlements with policyholders formerly represented by disqualified lawyers
Thanks to Marjory Morford, Dunn Carney's marketing director, for sending me the link to this story by Mike Kunzelman of the Associated Press. (Marjory frequently helps me with this blog -- for example, on…
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California Court of Appeals: no guaranteed replacement cost means homeowner is solely responsible for adequate insurance
California wildfires have provided some interesting battles between policyholders and insurers, chiefly over whether the insurer or the homeowner is responsible for the home being underinsured when it was destroyed. I wrote about a…
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Update on McIntosh v. State Farm case, May 7
The effort to find lawyers for the McIntoshes, plaintiffs against State Farm in one of the signature and most bitterly fought Katrina cases, continues to run into snags. You may remember Judge Senter's order…
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New article on plain English requirements for insurance policies
This is a relatively small article I wrote for the OADC magazine, the Oregon Association of Defense Counsel. I'm not actually a member of that organization, but one of my partners is on the Board…
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Federal regulation of insurance, etc.
I've had a number of stories by Becky Mowbray of the New Orleans Times-Picayune sitting around in my feedreader waiting for me to find time to comment. Between the day job and the Trailer…
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Trailer Lawyers demand sanctions for 'scurrilous' allegations relating to Rigsby Trailer Summit
A good way to finish out the week -- once again it's Trailer Time, where we catch up on another episode of the Trailer Lawyer News, with that beloved and familiar cast of characters: the Rigsby…
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May 1 potpourri
Again, time is very limited today, so this will have to suffice.-- I saw this story in the Insurance Journal that, following the Fifth Circuit's opinion in Broussard v. State Farm, the case has…