There are some classic and all-too-common villain tropes in the movies: the Scrooge-type miser, the megalomaniac and the greedy, faceless corporation. Add insurance companies to that list. Movies show them as heartless organizations denied their customers in the name...
Month: September 2017
Proven or experimental? Opinions on health treatments can differ.
It is certainly a commonplace to spot stories in the media where insurers' bad-faith conduct is alleged. The focus of wrongful behavior is often on claims of unresponsiveness to policyholders' lawful demands or issued checks that don't fully cover costs. And it is...
Sued for patent infringement: badge of honor for Denver firm?
GoSpotCheck has truly arrived.Matt Talbot, CEO of the 2011-founded Denver company, recently told a reporter that he thought his business had firmly made its mark when "we got spa water and ice machines." Now it can proudly point to -- in a perverse and ironic way --...
Court rules: when a policy cap is not, well, a policy cap
The principals of national insurer OneBeacon Insurance thought they had it duly figured out and were sufficiently protected by language in an insurance policy that addressed the limits of their liability to an insured in any claim for losses and damages.Unfortunately...
When it comes to your startup, don’t neglect IP concerns
As a commentator in a recent business-related article notes, the principals of startup enterprises routinely devote -- and rightly so -- a substantial amount of time, energy and resources to the crafting of plans geared toward promoting success.That's just a given,...