These posts on the Mills & Associates Nevada Coverage & Bad Faith Law blog are published to provide useful insights on Nevada insurance law to our clients and other subscribers. Many times the topics are suggested by recent case law, or issues raised by litigation.As part of our ongoing effort to provide both timely and helpful information, we invite all our readers to submit issues which they would like to see addressed in future blog posts.Likewise, please submit questions … [Read more...]
Never Say Never
September 21, 2009 by
Why it may be ill advised for an insurance company to say that it will never go off panel to assign work to insurance defense attorneys...Recently, Mills & Associates logged into a webcast sponsored by an insurance industry organization. The webcast’s expert panel was convened to discuss how defense attorneys could better improve the “insurance defense relationship”.As I listened to the panel members, it was reinforced to me how much insurance companies like to follow predetermined … [Read more...]
Nevada Has Not Adopted Cumis
August 13, 2008 by
“He who pays the piper, calls the tune”. While this adage may be true at a county fair, it has no place in the practice of law. Attorneys owe a primary duty to their client, no matter who pays the bill, be it a parent, spouse, friend, or insurance company. Just because the insurance company pays the attorney to defend its insured, the attorney’s primary duty is to the client not the carrier.Sometimes conflicts between the insured and the carrier arise when the carrier defends an insured … [Read more...]
