by Miller Calhoon Law | Jan 31, 2018 | Articles
By Patrick A. Calhoon Damages for Insurance Bad Faith actions are peculiar in how they are calculated. The amounts for each item of damages (contract damages, attorney fees, emotional distress, and punitive damages) are all tied to one another in one way or another....
by Miller Calhoon Law | Jan 18, 2018 | Articles
By Patrick A. Calhoon Your client is severely injured while working as a volunteer for a non-profit organization. You determine that the organization bears responsibility for your client’s injury. After the lawsuit is filed you learn that the organization is seriously...
by Miller Calhoon Law | Jan 18, 2018 | Articles
By Patrick A. Calhoon Much has been written about opening policy limits and creating the insurer’s liability for a verdict or judgment in excess of policy limits. Everyone will agree that the most effective way to open the policy is by providing the carrier with...
by Miller Calhoon Law | Jan 18, 2018 | Articles
By Patrick A. Calhoon Like millions of Californians, your client is enrolled in a Health Maintenance Organization (“HMO”) plan for her healthcare. Under these plans, the HMO plan contracts with health care providers, usually through medical groups known as Independent...
by Miller Calhoon Law | Jan 18, 2018 | Articles
By Patrick A. Calhoon On June 9, 2016, the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Nickerson v. Stonebridge Life Ins. Co., __ Cal.4th ___ (2016) (Nickerson) that attorney’s fees awarded to a plaintiff in an insurance bad faith lawsuit (“Brandt fees”) must be...
by Miller Calhoon Law | Jan 18, 2018 | Articles
By: Patrick A. Calhoon Your client was seriously injured in a car accident. He has damages that undisputedly approach several million dollars. You sue the at-fault driver who has a $100,000 policy, and two other smaller policies for $25,000 with questionable coverage....
