In short, a Utah real estate agent hired by the seller or vendor owes to others, including the buyer, a duty to be “honest, ethical, and competent and is answerable at law for his or her statutory duty to the public.” See NetDictation, LLC v. Rice, 2019 UT App 192. Let’s take a look at […]
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The duty to defend is the duty that an insurance company owes its insureds to hire an attorney and take action to defend the insured when the insured gets sued. It’s a bit of complex law that is often at the heart of any bad faith action against an insurance company. Utah typically follows the
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Who gets how much from a personal injury settlement or judgment has always been shared pro rata among those benefitting: the plaintiff and those who paid for the personal injury. No longer. The Utah Supreme Court ruled in Bryner v. Cardon Outreach, LLC, et al., 2018 UT 52, that the Utah Hospital Lien Statute, Utah
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In many Utah premises liability personal injury cases, the person who is injured on real property is often told they should have avoided the object or situation that injured them because it was “open and obvious.” The Utah Supreme Court reiterated the “open and obvious danger rule” in Coburn v. Whitaker Construction Co. released in
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