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What are the developing trends in insurance defense?
What are the developing trends in insurance defense?
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well we have some very
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interesting trends developing in the
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area of our insurance defense practice
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last year maryland adopted the dalbert
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standard for the admissibility of expert
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testimony
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previously they had uh relied on uh the
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fry read standard
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um daubert is a more um exact standard i
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would say
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so that’s a new trend for us maryland
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practitioners
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to get used to in the maryland courts
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although we’ve been doing it for years
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in the federal courts
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but just recently now the federal courts
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have started to consider
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amendments to the rules of evidence to
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tighten up some of the elements for
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applica
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applying the daubert standard to the
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admissibility of expert testimony
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another trend is what we as defense
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lawyers do
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to compa combat reptile tactics
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now reptile tactics are arguments that
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plaintiff’s attorneys make
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that tend to make the jurors want to
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protect themselves
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to protect their protect their personal
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interests and to protect the interests
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of their community
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in other words putting themselves in the
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shoes of the victim
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rather than focusing on just the rights
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or the wrongs that happen to have
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occurred in the particular case that
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they are
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hearing as jurors another uh
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trend that we are just starting to face
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as we conquer
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the kobit pandemic and hopefully have it
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come to an end soon
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is dealing with the court orders that
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told
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the statutes of limitations in other
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words stopped
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the statutes of limitations from running
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and those orders are different in every
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jurisdiction
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and for every new case we have to
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calculate
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in a different formula what the statute
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of limitations is
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finally i would say one of the most
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significant trends
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is an outcome of the covid pandemic and
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that is
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i think we’re going to continue to use
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remote hearings remote court appearances
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remote depositions and remote mediation
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using platforms
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such as webex or zoom
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Baltimore, MD commercial litigation attorney Robert L. Ferguson, Jr. talks about the developing trends in insurance defense.
