Commentary on Insurance Law: COIL - Volume 1, Number 7 - Couverture souple

Zalma, Barry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1091896380 ISBN 13 : 9781091896383

Editeur : Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

How Insurance Is the Mother’s Milk of the Law ProfessionThe earnings of almost every civil lawyer in the United States are funded by the insurance industry. Insurance can best be described as the mother’s milk of the legal profession. The civil defense lawyer is paid by an insurer for each hour he or she works. The civil plaintiffs’ lawyer is usually paid by taking a percentage of any judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff, which judgment is usually paid by the defendant’s insurer.In almost every situation in which a civil lawyer practices the funds for that work come, either directly or indirectly, from insurance. Consequently, lawyers must use their wits and energies to avoid or to pursue litigation to the benefit of the client. Both sides understand that an insurer will eventually pay one or both sides in the dispute. Insurance is important to every civil dispute and even some that fall within the criminal courts.Every lawyer retained to prosecute or defend a civil suit should begin the representation with a serious effort to find insurance coverage for the benefit of the client or the defendant the client is suing. If no insurance is available, it is essential that the plaintiffs’ counsel determine the assets of the defendant(s) to satisfy any judgment. It makes no sense to sue a judgment proof defendant.A lawyer who does not know the law of insurance will file a suit for actions excluded from every insurance policy the defendant may have. The lawyer who understands insurance will provide a suit whose judgment can be collected or will provide a defense to the client that will pay for the defense of the defendant and, if necessary, satisfy any judgment entered against the insured. Without that knowledge, the lawyer will find he or she is in trial litigating with duct tape firmly self-placed across his or her mouth and unable to intelligently evaluate the case.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1091896380
• ISBN 13: 9781091896383
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
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