The So-Called “Tripartite Problem” of Insurance Defense Lawyers and Its Solution
Insurance Lawyers and Their Conflict of Interest Problems: An Essay on “Scope Configuration” and The “Shaping of Scopes” Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D., C.P.C.U., Etc.[1] This essay started as a lecture to a CLE group. I began the lecture by asserting that I...
Insurance Defense Law: The So-Called Tripartite Problem and Its Solution
Insurance Lawyers and Their Conflict of Interest Problems: An Essay on “Scope Configuration” and The “Shaping of Scopes” Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D., C.P.C.U., Etc.[1] This long essay started as a lecture to a CLE group. I began the lecture by asserting that...
Privacy Rights, Pocket Calls, Legal Ethics
I am about to tell you a story by way of summarizing a lawsuit about a biz guy, a pocket-call, his having a right he might have thought have had but didn’t, and his wife’s actual rights. A twisted tale, true? The point of telling the tale here is to ask...
The Mixed Claims Commission and Compensatory Damages Arising from His Wrongful Death
Vanderbilt and the Mixed Claims Commission Part XI.B Michael Sean Quinn* (*See Below for Further Information) As set forth in Part I.A, Alfred Vanderbilt was drowned in the Lusitania disaster and could not recover under his life insurance policy because of a war risk...
Lusitania–Fowles’ Will Case: The Tale of Three Quite Separate Judges
THE SINKING OF THE R.M.S. LUSITANIA AND INSURANCE, Part IV.A Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D., C.P.C.U. . . . The first reported case of litigation flowing out of the Lusitania catastrophe on May 7, 1915, a hundred year ago was a simple looking case in which coverage...
Lusitania Disaster: Law of Wills — Who died first? Part VIIIA
Lusitania, Probate Law, the Who-Died-First Question-or-Who Shall-We-Say-Died-First-or-Who-Gets-the-Dough Part VIIIA Michael Sean Quinn (See below) One of the significant legal controversies created in the very much churning wake of the Lusitania catastrophe was In re...
Lusitania Catastrophe: Part VI — Accident Insurance — State Regulation
The Lusitania Disaster and Insurance Regulation—Part VI Michael Sean Quinn* I know. Just when you thought you were done, another insurance case pops up. There will be a few more, one of them really unusual...
Lusitania Disaster Litigation: Insurance, War Risk Exclusion — Part IV.A
THE SINKING OF THE R.M.S. LUSITANIA AND INSURANCE, Part IV.A Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D., C.P.C.U. . . . The first reported case of litigation flowing out of the Lusitania catastrophe on May 7, 1915, a hundred year ago was a simple looking case in which coverage...
Lusitania, Litigation, and Insurance — Part IVA
THE SINKING OF THE R.M.S. LUSITANIA AND INSURANCE, Part IV.A Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D., C.P.C.U. . . . The first reported lawsuit flowing out of the Lusitania catastrophe on May 7, 1915, a hundred year ago today, was a simple looking case in which coverage...
Lusitania Litigation 1918: Part III — Judicial Opinion and Expert Opinions
THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA AND LITIGATION, ESPECIALLY INSURANCE*-- *There will be little out-and-out said in this essay about insurance. It lurks behind everything, however. This blog is about a judicial decision regarding negligence on the part of the owner of the...
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