An insurer cannot require contribution from a co-insurer for the expenses of an insured’s defense where one insurer denies liability and the other refuses to defend, according to a recent opinion of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming a decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. In Auto-Owners Insurance… Continue Reading
Archives for April 2015
Collins & Lacy Attorneys Selected as 2015 South Carolina Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars® with Two Named as South Carolina Top 25 and One as Top 10
[COLUMBIA, S.C. April 27, 2015] – Eight Collins & Lacy, P.C. attorneys have been selected to the 2015 South Carolina Super Lawyers® and South Carolina Rising Stars® list, two of whom were ranked among the South Carolina Top 25 lawyers list and one in the Top 10. “The recognition given to these fine lawyers is… Continue Reading
4th Circuit Finds Insurer Was Not Required to Provide Notice Prior to Cancelling Life Insurance Policy for Unpaid Premium
An insured’s failure to make payments on his life insurance policy led it to lapse before his death according to Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Wactor v. Jackson National Life Insurance Co., No. 13-2367, 2015 WL 1020653 (4th Cir. Mar. 10, 2015). Rejecting the beneficiary’s contentions that the insurer had not properly notified the… Continue Reading
Better Safe Than Sorry: Keeping Up With Your Employees
Employee turnover is unavoidable for most businesses. Although almost no industry is immune from losing employees for any number of reasons in a free market economy, turnover is particularly prevalent in the highly seasonal retail and hospitality industries. In addition, cyclical and structural changes to the market are also catalysts for employees changing jobs. From… Continue Reading
The Pendulum We Know As Workers’ Compensation
When you’ve been in the workers compensation industry for almost 40 years, you see a lot of changes. A few decades ago, workers’ compensation was a gold mine for claimants’ attorneys. The joke then was that, to win, all a claimants’ attorney had to do was show up at the hearing with a client. And… Continue Reading
31 Years of Collins & Lacy
Some of life’s greatest ventures come from small beginnings. Consider, for example, the fact that 31 years ago an Assistant United States Attorney and a former Assistant Federal Public Defender decided to take a chance and start their own firm. It couldn’t begin more ironically than on April Fool’s Day of 1984, but it was… Continue Reading
