You probably have not been to the Jersey Shore in the summertime, you’ve got missed out. My mom grew up in Philadelphia and at all times talked about going to the New Jersey seashores within the summertime. Following Superstorm Sandy in 2012, I lived and labored in New Jersey and larger New York Metropolis.
Two of my favourite weblog posts price studying are Reflections on Superstorm Sandy Alongside the Jersey Shore Nearly Seven Years After the Disaster, and Labor Day on the Jersey Shore and the Ocean Sand Exclusion.
I used to be in our Purple Financial institution, New Jersey workplace yesterday working with Dan Ballard on an Ohio dangerous religion case. A significant property insurance coverage firm paid the actual property harm however didn’t regulate the contents declare. Many insurance coverage firms pay adjusters to do every kind of estimates on actual property harm, figuring out that restoration contractors will present competing bids and invoices for actual property harm. Many insurers hope that policyholders can be lazy relating to the contents and so they delay and fail to regulate the contents loss, hoping to attenuate fee. It’s the insurance coverage model of retail breakage that retailers understand after we fail to money in our reward playing cards. The failure to promptly and absolutely regulate contents loss claims are legitimate and sometimes neglected dangerous religion claims.
I lately wrote about Ohio insurance coverage dangerous religion regulation in What’s Insurer Dangerous Religion in Ohio? Whereas the regulation is unsettled whether or not it applies to dangerous religion claims, Ohio positioned a cap on tort declare punitive damages to twice the quantity of compensatory damages. Beneath Ohio’s tort statute, the utmost restoration for punitive damages is ruled by O.R.C. 2315.21(D), which gives:
(D)(1) In a tort motion, the trier of truth shall decide the legal responsibility of any defendant for punitive or exemplary damages and the quantity of these damages.
(2) Besides as offered in division (D)(6) of this part, the entire following apply relating to any award of punitive or exemplary damages in a tort motion:
(a) The courtroom shall not enter judgment for punitive or exemplary damages in extra of two occasions the quantity of the compensatory damages awarded to the plaintiff from that defendant….
How about this advert by John Robison relating to his appraisal seminar in Denver on August 15-19:
I can be at this occasion on Monday, August 15, and hope to see you there. Poor Steve Badger has to comply with me. In order for you pleasure, be there on August 15. Good luck to Steve maintaining with my opening act! Steve is from Texas, however I actively follow regulation in Colorado, and Colorado is a unique appraisal world than anyplace else in america.
Right here is the hyperlink to enroll.
Thought For The Day
Grilling outdoors with my mother and father on the Jersey shore. We might grill lobster and corn in the summertime.
—Bobby Flay
