Author: Willy E. Rice

Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing

Published: 2011-06-14

Total Pages: 754

ISBN-13: 9781609272920

Consumers initiate thousands of defective-trade-and-products lawsuits, yet many are never able to collect damages due to insurers who refuse to pay these damages. "Consumer Litigation and Insurance Defense" is a casebook that fills this need by presenting a comprehensive analysis of state and federal consumer-law and insurance-defense decisions. "Consumer Litigation and Insurance Defense" is a unique text that covers the statutes and corresponding caselaw for three critical and interrelated statutes: - The Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act - The NAIC Model Unfair Methods of Competition and Unfair or Deceptive Practices Act - NAIC Model Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Act Dr. Willy E. Rice is a professor of law at St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. He has multiple degrees: J.D., University of Texas at Austin; post-doctorate degree, Johns Hopkins University; and Ph.D and M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also has been a professor/scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, and Duke University. Since 1982, he has researched, written about, or taught insurance and consumer-rights laws. He has been an expert for numerous plaintiffs and insurance-defense law firms and has received many excellence awards for his teaching and scholarship.