Total loss valuation cases and labor depreciation cases dominated the past quarter. Courts continued the trend of rejecting challenges to condition adjustments in total loss valuation cases but allowing challenges to the projected sale adjustment to proceed. In labor depreciation class actions, the trend in favor of insureds continued, with a Texas putative class allowed to proceed to the merits. Both sets of claims also saw new theories cropping up.
In the report, we discuss the following insurance hot topics:
- Total Loss Vehicle Valuation Cases Continue to Divide
- Labor Depreciation Cases Continue
- Insured Seeks All Depreciation Under Replacement Cost Policy, Despite Policy Language
- Estimating Software Class Action Ordered to Appraisal
- Spyware Class Action Dismissed for Lack of Standing
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