November 27, 2023
A South Dakota court will not reconsider its decision to trim an insurer's breach of fiduciary duty claim against a law firm on the grounds that the insurer failed to provide expert testimony as required by state law, a federal judge ruled.
September 11, 2023
A onetime counsel for American Zurich Insurance Co. has dodged the majority of malpractice claims filed against him by the insurer over a bungled settlement in an underlying suit, after a South Dakota federal judge determined Zurich missed the statute of repose for one of its arguments and failed to provide expert analysis for another.