Homeowners Insurance Claims in Massachusetts – How it works
You pay Massachusetts homeowner’s insurance premiums and have for years - now you have a claim for property damage. Maybe your home and some of your things were damaged by wind driven rain, maybe water intrusion from ice dams, how to make your claim? An insurance policy is a written agreement. In order to make… Read More »Homeowners Insurance Claims in Massachusetts – How it works
Homeowners doesn’t cover defense of home condition warranty. Norfolk & Dedham v Norton Ma App Ct (2021) FACTS The homeowners made statements in the seller’s disclosure while they owned the place; then they sold the house. Flooding from severe storms hit a house two years after it had been sold. The buyers sued years later… Read More »Homeowners Ins No Seller Warranty Defense
Healthy Spouses of Sick Spouses – Mass Bans Emlployers’ Discrimination
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court now recognizes claims for “associational discrimination” against employers who provide family health insurance and who fire healthy employees with very sick spouses when the firing is motivated by a hope to reduce health insurance premiums. The case Flagg v AliMed Inc. involved a worker whose wife had a brain tumor. The… Read More »Healthy Spouses of Sick Spouses – Mass Bans Emlployers’ Discrimination
This is a report about a conference organized by Massachusetts State officials to provide more health care cost information in the effort to cabin the rise in those costs. Empowering Health Care Consumers – A Community Conversation II October 22, 2013 UMass Medical School / MA Office of Consumer Affairs & Business Regulation Chuck Cobb… Read More »Health Cost Information – Making Consumers Care
General Rule Applies to General Liability but Not to Title Insurance
Must an insurance company defend the entire case where some claims are covered but some are clearly not covered? General liability insurers must, title insurers do not have to according to a 2013 decision by Massachusetts SJC. A flap arose when by mistake, a deed was recorded before a mortgage. The right to enforce payment… Read More »General Rule Applies to General Liability but Not to Title Insurance
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