Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog

The Seventh Circuit has reversed a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit against Federal Insurance Company and a health insurance technology company for unauthorized robocalls soliciting the sale of health insurance. The court emphasized that the complaint, which alleged the two companies were vicariously liable for the calls, pled sufficient detail to move forward.

On May 27, 2015, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Cardigan Mountain School v. New Hampshire Ins. Co., CV 14-2182, 2015 WL 3393771 (1st Cir. May 27, 2015), held that the policyholder, sufficiently pled a plausible case that an insurance policy had been issued by New Hampshire Insurance Company for the period 1967–1968, even though neither party could locate the policy.  The decision demonstrates a favorable application of the “plausibility” pleading standard articulated by the Supreme Court in Ashcroft v. Iqbal and Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, in the murky context of a lost insurance policy case.