Author: Childress Loucks & Plunkett

Concern over cyber threats to businesses is on the rise due to an ever changing technological atmosphere which has allowed for greater accessibility between businesses and their clients.  With many businesses offering cloud based data centers which store important and often confidential documents o...

10 Tips to Get a Good Property Settlement from your Insurance Company. These 10 tips are exactly that, and, of course, your own situation may require greater emphasis on some of these tips than others. Hopefully, with these tips in mind, the claims process will be rewarding for you....

Tornado season is right around the corner here in the United States.  May and June are typically the most active months of the year for tornado genesis across the Great Plains.  Tornado Alley, as the nickname goes, sees a very large number of super cell thunderstorms which are perfect producers of...

We live in an age of disasters. Devastation to manufacturing facilities by fires, tornados, explosions, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc., is now commonplace. So, you have sought to protect your business with an expensive insurance program. While it is hard to predict when and how a ca...

The growing awareness in the United States regarding carbon emissions and their effect on the environment and weather patterns, have produced an increase in environmental litigation and some important decisions from the United States Supreme Court. Many states and environmental groups have filed law...

There are ways you can to protect yourself from not receiving an optimum claims payout due to CCPR) but they each boil down to remaining vigilant and not hesitating to get help when you need it to protect your insured interests. First and most important is to recognize that the insurance companyR...

The below article appeared originally in the ABA Tips Fall 2012 Issue (48:1) of the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal.  Authors: William A. Schreiner, Jr., Heidi H. Raschke, William R. Lewis, Craig A. Jacobson, Christina M. Phillips, James P. Bobotek, Jay M. Levin, Lisa A. Szymanski, ...