Tag: Insurance agents

• Insurance & Casualty Litigation

  UM Rejection Forms – Little Traction Given to Consent Challenges by Insureds not Fluent in English

  • April 27, 2016
  • By Brent Carriere

  Recently, in Ponce v. Welch, 15-669 (La. App. 5 Cir. 3/16/16) 2016 WL 107-8579, Louisiana’s Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal upheld summary judgment in favor of an insurance company by denying a UM rejection form challenge of an insured claiming she did not understand the UM rejection agreement because she was not fluent in English.  […]

• Professional Liability

  When can insurance agent peremption be extended to an insurer?

  • June 2, 2014
  • By Allen & Gooch
  

  Denial of Health Insurance Based on Missing Information In the case of Sibley v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, 2014 WL 1100158 (La. App. 1 Cir. 3/20/2014), Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana (“BCBS”) retroactively cancelled Ms. Laura Sibley’s health insurance policy after BCBS discovered information that demonstrated that Ms. Sibley’s pre-existing condition was […]

• Professional Liability

  The Basic Duties of Insurance Agents in Louisiana

  • December 6, 2013
  • By Allen & Gooch
  

  Do you know what duties insurance agents owe to their clients in Louisiana? Insurance agents in Louisiana owe a duty of due diligence in obtaining coverage for their clients.  Louisiana jurisprudence provides that an insurance agent who undertakes to procure insurance for another owes an obligation to his client to use reasonable diligence in attempting […]