While insurance agents and brokers are not held to a standard of perfection, these professionals are increasingly finding themselves defendants in lawsuits which traditionally involved only the insured and insurer.  When claims against a broker or agent arise, you want the expertise of Skane Wilcox who specifically practices in the area of broker and agent liability. We have successfully defended many agent/broker liability claims of all kinds.  We appreciate the need to resolve claims efficiently.

Some Results from our Attorneys

*** Our attorneys brought a motion for summary judgment on the client-broker's duty to notify an insured of the cancellation of the policy.  The plaintiffs claimed our client was responsible for notifying them that their insurance policy was being cancelled.  Subsequent to the cancellation of the policy, the plaintiffs were sued for personal injury.  The court granted the motion for summary judgment and awarded costs.  The plaintiffs were claiming our client should be held liable for over $200,000 awarded against the insured from a binding arbitration award regarding the personal injury claim, in addition to pre-judgment interest and attorneys’ fees.

*** In a broker liability case where the plaintiffs were seeking over $2 million in damages from our client, we successfully obtained a dismissal after aggressively pursuing the defense.  The plaintiffs’ avocado orchard was destroyed in a wildfire.  They claimed our client failed to procure the appropriate policy that would cover the orchard loss, despite that there was no insurance available at the time they purchased their policy.  The plaintiffs chose to dismiss the case after we explained how the plaintiffs would be unsuccessful in their case against our client.