Sentences with phrase «available against an insurance company»

This takes away some of the tools to force settlement that would otherwise be available against an insurance company.

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Environmental disasters, such as the offshore spill in Santa Barbara and the water quality problems in Flint, Michigan, coupled with more aggressive government regulation (prior to 2017), have also led insurance companies to demand higher premiums and deductibles, and to refuse types of coverage that used to be routinely available, such as «cost - cap» environmental coverage, which protects against cost overruns for the remediation of polluted sites.

Moshe, through his insurer, Intact Insurance Company, argued that his policy was not available under section 277 because a claim had not been made against him directly by the plaintiffs.

While there is no bar to an injured party proceeding directly against the defendant regardless of insurance coverage, it is usually in the best interest of the injured person for the insurance company to be involved because of the additional financial resources available.

This simply means that if the insurance company spends $ 50,000 in legal fees to defend or settle a claim against you, that money is separate and apart from the limit of money available to pay the claim against you.