Social Inflation Lesson: Not Settling Cost Insurer Millions in Suit by Excess Insurer
The defense team for Chubb Group’s Ace American Insurance Co. was confident that no jury would award more than $2 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Mark Braswell, who died on May 16, 2014 when his bicycle collided with a trailer behind a parked landscaping truck.
After all, there was some evidence that the truck owned by the Brickman Group was legally parked along the road. Also, Braswell’s helmet was cracked down the middle and the injury was to the top of his head, indicating he had his head down at the time of the accident and wasn’t looking where he was going.
Refusal to Settle for $2M Costs Ace Nearly $8M in Suit by Excess Insurer
The defense team for Chubb Group’s Ace American Insurance Co. was confident that no jury would award more than $2 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Mark Braswell, who died on May 16, 2014 when his bicycle collided with a trailer behind a parked landscaping truck.
After all, there was some evidence that the truck owned by the Brickman Group was legally parked along the road. Also, Braswell’s helmet was cracked down the middle and the injury was to the top of his head, indicating he had his head down at the time of the accident and wasn’t looking where he was going.
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If your name were Klutz, you might want to be extra careful. Not that your name defines you necessarily, or predetermines your destiny, but, hey, it can have an influence on how you act and how others act toward you, so why make a self-fulfilling prophecy out of it?
If your name were Bobo or Boo-boo or Owie, you, too, might want to proceed with caution, and maybe change your name (but not to Klutz).
Believe it or not, a guy named Kevin Bobo actually had an accident at the Houston Sportsplex in 2018 and allegedly suffered an injury. Whether he refers to it as a bobo or a boo-boo or an owie, we don’t know, but it must have been a lulu, because it took him one day shy of two years (the statute of limitations deadline) to realize how badly he’d been injured and file a million-dollar lawsuit in Harris County District Court against the Sportsplex, et al.
HOUSTON A Harris County business is facing a $1 million suit alleging one of their drivers failed to make a safe lane change and struck another vehicle whose driver suffered injuries.
Carolyn Mayer filed a complaint Dec. 18 in Harris County District Court against Material Express Inc., and Dori Oehlers Fairman alleging negligence.
Mayer was driving her motor vehicle on U.S. 59 in Harris County on Nov. 2, 2020, according to her complaint. She alleges that Fairman, who was driving her employer s Material Express vehicle, violently struck her car while making an unsafe lane change.
Mayer alleges she suffered head, back and neck injuries as well as injuries to other parts of her body and has suffered disfigurement, mental anguish and other medical problems. She also alleges she suffered a loss of earnings and has incurred pharmaceutical and medical expenses as a result of her injuries.
HOUSTON A company who hired a woman for consulting services to establish a Hospice care facility is claiming she did no work on the project despite being paid $30,000.
Udochukwu Abakwue and CJ Royal Investment Company LLC filed a complaint Dec. 18 in Harris County District Court against Nina Olugu, individually and doing business as Texas Hospice and HH Consulting Houston alleging fraud, negligence, breach of contract and fiduciary duty and violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
The plaintiffs hired Olugu for consulting services on establishing a Hospice care service in Texas, according to their complaint. They alleged they paid the defendant an initial payment of $30,000 based on certain representations she made regarding her skills and the services she would provide.