On October 6, 2020, a panel of Division One of the Arizona Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed the trial court’s $1.6 million judgment in favor of RG&M’s client against a primary insurer for bad faith failure to settle. In May 2019, Michael Raymond and Daniel McCarthy prevailed on behalf of their client against a primary…

Len Greer and Dan McCarthy helped a client out of a pickle with his auto insurer. The client had the same auto insurer for nearly 40 years. But when he traded in his car for a newer model, he had mistakenly forgot to notify the insurer of the trade-in. 34 days later, he was in…

In May, Michael Raymond and Dan McCarthy secured an unanimous verdict against First Mercury Insurance Company in a $1 million bad-faith jury trial. Post trial motions included a claim for attorneys’ fees, prejudgment interest and taxable costs. First Mercury opposed the claim for fees and prejudgment interest. In its recent ruling, the Court agreed with…

It took over four years of hard-fought litigation, but in the end, justice prevailed. After a five day jury trial, on May 13, 2019 a Maricopa County Superior Court jury handed Michael Raymond and Dan McCarthy’s client, Navigators Insurance Company a unanimous one million dollar verdict in its favor and against First Mercury Insurance Company.…

Thirteen years after a fuel spill at a gas station on tribal land in Chinle, Arizona, Michael Raymond secured a significant victory over a threshold issue of jurisdiction. In a battle lasting five and a half years, Michael Raymond finally prevailed for his client on April 4, 2019 when the United States District Court ruled…

When Ginger was struck by a motorist while walking across a shopping mall parking lot, she suffered significant back pain. For nearly two years, she tried to reasonably resolve the claim with the motorist’s insurance company. But they not only disputed liability, they only offered $22,000, which did not even cover her medical bills. So…

Dennis Teufel was in a bind. Teufel, an Arizona homeowner, spent several hundreds of thousands of dollars after his homeowner’s insurer refused to defend or indemnify him for a lawsuit filed against him by the purchaser of Teufel’s home. After a landslide caused significant damage to the home, Teufel’s insurer left him out in the…

Dan McCarthy secured another appellate court win in April 2018 when the Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a claim against Dan’s insurance agent client who had been sued for over $400,000 by a professional employer organization. The case was hard fought and had been pending for several years.

As noted from his bio, Mike Raymond has a 30 year track record of helping develop the common law of Arizona, particularly in the area of insurance coverage. And in 2017, he helped a homeowner secure a big win against an insurer who refused to defend its insured. In Teufel v. American FamilyMut. Ins. Co.,…

Living in the western United States comes with increased risk of wildfires. As communities expand, housing encroaches upon our treasured forests, land that itself is increasingly susceptible to wildfires. Sometimes, however, the damage caused by wildfires comes afterwards, when the rains come, in this case, the predictable Arizona monsoons. Such was the case in the summer of…