Indiana Supreme Court Orders Records Unsealed on Insurance Cases
The Indiana Supreme Court on Friday, October 10 ordered opened to the public hundreds of pages of documents that had been sealed at the request of corporations involved in an insurance dispute.
The case, Travelers Casualty and Surety Co. vs. U.S. Filter Corp. and several others, involves whether corporations defending claims of exposure to silica have insurance coverage for those claims. The case is pending before the state Supreme Court.
Marion Superior Court had deemed certain documents in the case confidential in April 2005 at the request of virtually all the parties involved. Under that order, parties also could request those documents to be purged from court records at the end of the case.
But the high court ordered the records opened Friday, finding that the request to seal records was not properly justified according to Indiana legal rules.
- Chubb CEO Greenberg: Some Financial Lines Underwriting Practices ‘Simply Dumb’
- Insurers Get Green Light to Pay Less Than Billed Charges in Florida PIP Cases
- Warren Buffett’s PacifiCorp Now Faces $30 Billion Fire Claim Demand
- Work Safety Group Releases List of ‘Dirty Dozen’ Employers
- Poll: Consumers OK with AI in P/C Insurance, but Not So Much for Claims and Underwriting
- Report: Vehicle Complexity, Labor ‘Reshaping’ Auto Insurance and Collision Repair
- Florida’s Home Insurance Industry May Be Worse Than Anyone Realizes
- Apollo Accused in Lawsuit of Illegal Human Life Wagering Scheme