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Litigation

May 27, 2000

Future Shock

^^Feature^^ By Deborah Rosenthal According to Michael Wade, of Los Angeles' Demler, Armstrong and Wade, "the complexity of bad faith litigation is made even more complicated and more challenging when you are involved in a catastrophe." His client, 20th Century, had more than 40,000 claims following the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Nordhoff defense counsel Kurt Peterson reports that Farmers had somewhere in the same ballpark, including both commercial and personal claims, and Allstate reports

By Deborah Rosenthal
        According to Michael Wade, of Los Angeles' Demler, Armstrong and Wade, "the complexity of bad faith litigation is made even more complicated and more challenging when you are involved in a catastrophe." His client, 20th Century, had more than 40,000 claims following the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Nordhoff defense counsel Kurt Peterson reports that Fa...

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