Payne & Fears recently obtained a major victory before the California Court of Appeal in favor of its clients, including CSI Electrical Contractors Inc. and three of its employees. The appellate court upheld an award of $299,647 in attorney’s fees that was issued as a sanction against Plaintiff SASCO for bringing...
Payne & Fears (P&F) achieved a significant victory on behalf of a commercial contractor by securing full defense and indemnity under a commercial general liability policy for an arbitration after the insurer had denied coverage twice previously. P&F partners Jared De Jong and Kelby Van Patten were retained on the...
Payne & Fears (P&F) resolved the final piece of a long-running dispute involving excess insurance coverage for a homebuilder. This complex claim involved numerous layers of excess insurance stretching over many years. After successfully concluding litigation with underlying excess carriers, P&F, after filing suit, was able to successfully recover from...
In an insurance recovery case being handled by Payne & Fears partners Scott Thomas and Sarah Odia, an Arizona federal court, applying Nevada law, recently held that NGM Insurance Company breached its duty to defend its additional-insured homebuilder by refusing to pay more than a proportionate share of the builder’s...
Las Vegas office partners Scott S. Thomas and Sarah J. Odia recovered more than $2.1 million for a Fortune 500 homebuilder from a group of additional-insured carriers in reimbursement of costs the homebuilder incurred to defend three high-exposure construction defect lawsuits. We also recovered from the same carriers 100 percent of...