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Ghostwriting May Waive Insurers Attorney-Client Privilege

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 Insurers’ in-house and outside counsel should exercise care when writing all or part of a denial letter for a claim handler to sign and send, or counsel may unwittingly waive the company’s attorney-client privilege and find themselves subject to deposition. In  1 The court reasoned that the insured was entitled to depose the individual with personal knowledge of the reasons for the denial, but, at deposition, the claim handler testified she had not received any training on the applicable legal standards, and she could not explain the letter’s analysis of Mississippi law. 2 The court therefore concluded that because the claim handler did not have personal knowledge of the reasons for denial, the insured was entitled to depose the in-house attorney who prepared the letter and to review correspondence between the attorney and the claim handler regarding the claim.

Examining COVID-19-Related Insurance Litigation Trends

Shares1 Almost 1,500 lawsuits have been filed by policyholders against insurers, seeking to resolve disputes around insurance coverage for COVID-19-related business losses. For those unfamiliar with insurance litigation trends, it’s important to put the scale of this into perspective. The average hurricane will result in about 50 to 100 cases being filed in the first year; from April till August 2020 we saw the same quantity of cases being filed each week for COVID-19-related losses. So far, rulings have been made overwhelming in the favor of insurers, at a rate of approximately 75%. However, there have been some significant rulings in favor of policyholders over the last few months which should cause insurers pause for thought.

Making Adjustments: Insurers, Counsel, and the Attorney-Client Privilege | Burr & Forman

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Insurers often rely on counsel, external or otherwise, when addressing the validity and/or strength of claims filed by their insureds. However, there is a trend in the courts which makes the extent and nature of such reliance something worth watching carefully, as there are circumstances in which that reliance could lead to the discoverability of otherwise privileged materials in the face of bad-faith denial claims. Therefore, one of the key questions for insurers and counsel when giving or receiving counsel’s advice at the outset of the claims process is this:

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