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Quadrino Schwartz successfully consulted for a joint venture between a national restaurant chain and a group of regional steakhouses. The client was faced with an unfair competition lawsuit, and…
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Commercial General Liability: National Restaurant Chain
Quadrino Schwartz successfully consulted for a joint venture between a national restaurant chain and a group of regional steakhouses. The client was faced with an unfair competition lawsuit, and Quadrino Schwartz was hired to analyze the insurance coverage afforded under the advertising injury portion of the client's commercial general liability policy. Coverage was secured, and the insurer assigned counsel to defend the client in the trade secrets and unfair competition litigation.
Quadrino Schwartz obtained $2 million from an insurance company for its bad faith refusal to settle a personal injury case against our client, the owner of a large apartment complex in New York City. …
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Property & Casualty Insurance: Third Party Bad FaithQuadrino Schwartz obtained $2 million from an insurance
company for its bad faith refusal to settle a personal injury
case against our client, the owner of a large apartment complex in New York City. When a business or
individual gets sued but they carry liability insurance, it is expected
that the liability insurance company will provide a defense and pay any
appropriate settlement. If the insurance company leaves its customer
"hanging out to dry", there can be a "bad faith" problem. That's where
Quadrino Schwartz steps in.
If you have, for example, $1 million
in coverage and the lawyer suing you says he will accept the $1
million, your insurance company should pay if the case is large and
serious and you could be held liable for more than the $ 1 million. In
this case, the insurance company refused to settle the case against our
client and a jury rendered a verdict against our client for much more
than the limits of his insurance coverage. We sued the insurance
company for its bad faith refusal to settle the case within the
available coverage, and won a settlement of nearly $2 million to
compensate our client and make the client whole.
When health insurers or HMOs come knocking on the door seeking a refund from a doctor for money alread paid, it's time to get Quadrino Schwartz involved. In one recent case, a major health insurer…
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Health Insurance Audits—“Overpayments” : Neurology Practice
When health insurers or HMOs come knocking on the door seeking a
refund from a doctor for money alread paid, it's time to get Quadrino
Schwartz involved. In one recent case, a major health insurer
sought a $450,000 refund from our client, a neurologist. The insurer
sued, claiming that it "overpaid" the doctor. We fought back hard and
demonstrated that our client's billing practices and services were
proper. The insurer was convinced to essentially drop its case by
accepting a pennies on the dollar settlement.
When a professional liability insurer stopped defending a lawyer's malpractice case right before trial, Quadrino Schwartz stepped in and forced the insurance company to meet its obligation to provide and…
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Professional Liability: Law Firm CoverageWhen a professional liability insurer stopped defending a lawyer's
malpractice case right before trial, Quadrino Schwartz stepped in and
forced the insurance company to meet its obligation to provide and pay for attorneys to defend the lawsuit.
Sometimes
insurance companies pull the plug on defending a
case right in the middle of a lawsuit. Our client, a successful law
firm, was sued for malpractice by one of its former clients. The law
firm's professional liability insurer defended the malpractice case but
abruptly pulled out on the eve of trial, claiming a fialure of
"cooperation" by our client.
We brought an immediuate lawsuit
against the insurance company, successfully delayed the malpractice
trial, and then forced the insurance company into direct talks with the
plaintiff's lawyer representing the firm's former client. We mediated
a successful resolution, avoided two trials, and brought both casesto a
quick and amicable resolution.
When a nationally known insurance company made a second attempt at victimizing medical providers, Quadrino Schwartz led a team of law firms in obtaining a dismissal of the insurance companys'…
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Auto No Fault Insurance: Professional Medical Corporations
When a nationally known insurance company made a second attempt at
victimizing medical providers, Quadrino Schwartz led a team of law
firms in obtaining a dismissal of the insurance companys' lawsuit. The
insurance company, in an effort to intimidate medical multi-specialty
clinics, sued the clinics for refunds of millions of dollars paid by
the insurer for medical services provided by the clinics and billed to
the insurance company. The insurer claimed that even though the
services were rendered by licensed professionals, the billing was
"illegal" because management companies associated with the clinics were
not owned by doctors. Quadrino Schwartz fought hard against this
faulty tactic, arguing that the billing was appropriate and that the
insurance company's position was not supported by any rational view of
the law. The federal court agreed, dismissing the insurance company's
case.
Our client was sued by a major auto leasing company that paid nearly a million dollar settlement on his behalf, since it was liable under the law as the owner of the vehicle. The leasing company…
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Auto Insurance and Professional Liability
Our client was sued by a major auto leasing company that paid nearly a million dollar settlement on his behalf, since it was liable under the law as the owner of the vehicle. The leasing company claimed that the fine print of the auto lease allowed it to get the money back from our client. We sued the auto insurance company and their lawyers for failing to protect our client, and we forced them to pay for almost all of the liability and got our client out of the case for less than 5% of the liability.
When a large scale medical provider was faced with millions of dollars in denied insurance claims, Quadrino Schwartz was hired to fight back. Abuses by the automobile insurance company were…
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No Fault Insurance: Medical Provider ReimbursementWhen a large scale medical provider was faced with millions of
dollars in denied insurance claims, Quadrino Schwartz was hired to
fight back. Abuses by the automobile insurance company were prevalent,
and they were denying many small no-fault iunsurance claims with
apparent impunity.
Instead of bring hundreds of little suits,
Quadrino Schwartz aggregated millions of dollars of claims and brough
them in a single case, in federal court. When the insurance company
tried to assert a counterclaim for a refund as a leverage maneuver,
Quadrino Schwartz fought back. The firm obtained a groundbreaking
ruling preventing insurance companies from trying to get refunds,
either by initiating suits or interposing counterclaims, based upon
allegations of improper "corporate structure" of the medical providers.
The insurer's arguments were made in an attempt to invalidate proper
medical practices and proper billing practices.
The decision
obtained by Quadrino Schwartz has been cited frequently in the no-fault
insurance litigation arena and had an impact upon industry tactics.
We successfully fought for a life insurance settlement for an AIDS victim. Life insurance companies often claim that their insurance polices have lapsed due to a failure of the policyholder to pay premiums,…
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Life Insurance: Policy Lapse IssuesWe successfully fought for a life insurance settlement for an AIDS victim.
Life insurance companies often claim that their insurance polices
have lapsed due to a failure of the policyholder to pay premiums, and
they deny the insurance claim. When Quadrino Schwartz gets involved,
an investigation often reveals that there have been regulatory
violations or other reasons why the insurance policy did not lapse.
We
were hired by the family of an AIDS victim who had died from his
affliction. The life insurance company that held a policy claimed that
there was no insurance at the time of death, due to a failure to pay
timely premiums.
Quadrino Schwartz sued the insurance company and
established in the litigation that there was no proof that the
insurance company sent all of the legal notices that must be sent to
the policyholder under New York's statutory scheme. These notice must
be sent by the insurance company in a timely and specific fashion.
Based upon the efforts of Quadrino Schwartz in the lawsuit, the
insurance company was forced to compensate the family of the AIDs
victim by paying a substantial settlement on the life insurance claim.
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