MSQ – Insurance Law | Expert Witness
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Covers Insurance Law, Insurance Law History, Law Practice, Mediation, Philosophy, Expert Witness, and more. Authored by Michael Sean Quinn, one of Texas's leading names. Quinn is a past chair of the Insurance Section of the State Bar and has a broad practice.
MSQ – Insurance Law | Expert Witness
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THE JOYS OF DEFENDING DEBTORS, Part I Michael Sean Quinn* Until recently I had never defended a debtor and hadn’t done bankruptcy work in many years, though I have done a couple of collection cases, I confess, connected to law firms. (I have consistently advised that these are usually a bad idea.) Nevertheless, I have recently ..read more
MSQ – Insurance Law | Expert Witness
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LAWYER MEGYN v. WITNESS DONALD Michael Sean Quinn* Q. Given that you have called at least one woman a “fat pig” and described other women by insulting epithets, why should you of all people be elected President of the USA? Do you really have the right temperament for the job. [Ignoring all objections.] A. I’m ..read more
MSQ – Insurance Law | Expert Witness
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THREE BITES AND JURY QUESTIONS IN TEXAS Michael Sean Quinn* Suppose the large dog, Ruffian, belonging to A bites B three times in A’s front yard, where A and B were having a hostile but peaceful conversation. In other words, the two disagrees and argued they cases. Here are the three bites; they all take ..read more
MSQ – Insurance Law | Expert Witness
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THREE BITES AND COVERAGES(?) Michael Sean Quinn* Suppose the large dog, Ruffian, belonging to A bit B three times in A’s front yard, where A and B were having a hostile but peaceful conversation. In other words, the two disagreed and argued their cases. Here are the three bites; they all take place within about ..read more
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HOW TO READ, THINK, AND STRUCTURE Michael Sean Quinn* Sometimes there are brief and succinct formulations of the la> such that if L grasps it deeply–down into the lawyer-component of his inner being, s/he will understand the legal situation and know what needs to be done. Contract, and therefore insurance policy interpretation is like this ..read more
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DAMAGES INFLICTED AND THE RIGHT TO COMPENSATION Michael Sean Quinn* Traditionally, in the common law the damages one was entitled to for the loss of a tangible object was the value of the object at the time of its loss. The most traditional of all causes of action for which this was what we now ..read more
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CGL POLICY (CONTRACT) LANGUAGE “CONVOLUTED“ Michael Sean Quinn* In a complex coverage case key words in the standard and almost universally used “Commercial General Liability” have been listed and then criticized both the language and its organization. The court called it “convoluted.” In this particular case, the Court also found that the language was unambiguous ..read more
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A CICERONIAN AXIOM Michael Sean Quinn* Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC) aka Cicero, one of history’s greatest lawyers, as well as one of the top 10 orators of Western Civilization, one of the top 50 philosophers thereof, and one of its top 100 constitutionist statesmen made the following remark, at least once: “You simply ..read more
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DAMAGES AND COMPENSATION IN CIVIL LITIGATION Michael Sean Quinn* You can’t have enough legal education. If you studied damages in law school and if you have been out of law school for more than six months, it’s time to go back to the fundamentals. The Supreme Court of Texas has just written an opinion where ..read more
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NO GAY MARRIAGES AROUND HERE, PERIOD?: A Tennessee Judicial Ethics Case Michael Sean Quinn* A judge (“J”) announced the pending dismissal of a post gay marriage divorce case in which each spouse was suing the other on the grounds that the U.S. Supreme Court has deprived state courts of subject matter jurisdiction in divorce cases ..read more