Table of contents
4.1 Chapter Scope
4.2 Overview
4.3 Statute of Limitations
4.4 Proper Parties
4.5 First Party Claims
4.5.1 Standards of Insurer Conduct
4.5.2 Basis for Liability – General
4.6 Arizona Uniform Claims Practices Act
4.7 Workers’ Compensation
4.8 Burden of Proof
4.9 Third Party Claims
4.9.1 Standards of Conduct Toward Insured
4.10 Equitable Subrogation
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| Insurance Bad Faith Jury Instructions | 245.76 KB | 22 |
Steven Gross is a litigator and has extensive experience handling complex insurance coverage, professional liability, and catastrophic personal injury defense matters. Mr. Gross serves as national and regional coverage counsel for two large insurance carriers and has appeared in state and federal courts in Arizona, California, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Jersey, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Alaska, Georgia, Louisiana, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Virginia, South Dakota, South Carolina, North Carolina, Utah, and California. Mr. Gross speaks and writes frequently on insurance law topics and has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America since 2019 in the areas of Insurance and Insurance Litigation. He is a contributing author for Couch on Insurance 3d, a nationally recognized authoritative treatise on insurance law often recognized and relied upon by courts and attorneys throughout the United States. He is also authored chapter 9 of Practical Tools for Handling Insurance Cases which aims to filter complex insurance coverage issues into an easily readable and digestible format for attorneys across the country and is published by West in 2011. Mr. Gross is one of the two managing authors and editors selected by the Arizona State Bar to create the Arizona Tort Law Handbook which has sold hundreds of copies to lawyers throughout the State of Arizona. He has published over twenty articles relating to insurance coverage, liability defense, and claims practices including chapter eight of the national Claims Adjuster’s Automobile Liability handbook published by West in 2009. He has been listed by Southwest Super Lawyers since inception and maintains an AV Preeminent rating with Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Gross maintains an active CPCU “Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter” certification through The Institutes.
is a senior member of The Cavanagh Law Firm in Phoenix where he maintains a national insurance coverage and extra-contractual defense practice. He has an LL.M. in Insurance from the University of Connecticut. He is the current successor author to COUCH ON INSURANCE 3D and has written other treatises on insurance law. He has published in excess of 350 law reviews and other professional publications on insurance law, in addition to several national insurance law treatises. He has been cited by the Supreme Courts of 34 states, the Intermediate Appellate Courts in 23 states, 12 of the Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal, 60 Federal District Courts, and the Federal Court of Claims. He has been cited in 95 scholarly articles. He has been continuously listed as a top 50 lawyer in Arizona (2007-2020) by Southwest Super Lawyers®. Only a few lawyers have been continuously on the list since its inception. He is recognized as a "Business Leader" (insurance) by Arizona Business Magazine and has been listed by Arizona Business Magazine as one of the top 100 lawyers in Arizona. Mr. Plitt has been listed in Best Lawyers® since 2007 (10+ years) (insurance) and was named the Insurance Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers® in 2012 and 2017 for Phoenix. He is also listed in Best Lawyers for the topic "Litigation - Insurance," and was the Lawyer of the Year in this category in 2020. He is a Fellow in the American College of Coverage and Extra-contractual Counsel. He is a Member of the American Law Institute where he was a consultative member on the development of the Restatement of Liability Insurance. He is a nationally recognized expert witness in insurance claim handling and bad faith cases and has been retained as an expert in hundreds of cases venued in 33 states. He is a former adjunct Professor of Law at ASU College of Law teaching insurance law. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Arizona where he teaches insurance law.
was appointed to the Maricopa County Superior Court in September 2015. Since his appointment, Judge Rogers has served on the civil bench, the family bench, and the juvenile bench. Prior to his appointment, he was a shareholder with the Phoenix coverage boutique firm of Kunz Plitt Hyland & Demlong. In his practice, Judge Rogers was involved in analyzing and litigating numerous complex insurance coverage matters in representation of insurance companies in numerous states. A major portion of his practice involved representing insurance companies in defense of insurance bad faith claims. Judge Rogers also analyzed complex advertising injury and personal injury general liability coverage claims. Judge Rogers is one of three associate authors for COUCH ON INSURANCE 3D, a nationally recognized authoritative treatise on insurance law. He received his B.A. in Political Studies, summa cum laude, in 1998, from The Master's College and his J.D., cum laude, in 2001, from Pepperdine University School of Law.