Insurance books
Barry Zalma
Nov 27, 2023
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Most Insurers Have Rules Prohibiting their Employees to Get Gifts
When I was a young lawyer I tried to give gifts to the claims personnel who referred cases to me and my law firm. I tried to provide them with gifts that they would enjoy only to be told I was violating the company rules. I talked with management and was allowed to make a gift to the claims offices and would send them a book for their library. It was acceptable and accepted by the claims people with good grace and didn’t disappear as would a box of Mrs. Field’s cookies.
If you or your firm works with insurers and you wish to thank your clients consider sending a gift of a book or books for your clients that include:
Everything Needed by the Insurance Claims Professional from Barry Zalma at https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/. The library contains many books on the subject of insurance.
The Books include:
A Compact Book on How Judges Read, Understand, Interpret and Rule on Insurance Policy Issues
The book is available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
The Compact Book on Ethics
How Ethical Doctrines from the Beginning of the Written Word to the Present Resulted in the Incorporation of the Covenant of Good Faith
The book is available as a https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
“How to Acquire, Understand, and Make a Successful Claim on a Commercial Property Insurance Policy: Information Needed for Individuals and Insurance Pros to Deal With Commercial Property Insurance”
The Book is now available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
The Tort of Bad Faith
Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
The Equitable Remedy of Rescission of Insurance
Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
Insurance Fraudsters Deserve No Quarter
Book That Explains How to Defeat or Deter Insurance Fraud
Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
The Examination Under Oath to Resolve Insurance Claims
Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
Insurance Fraud – Volume I & Volume II Second Edition
Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
The Homeowners Insurance Policy Handbook
How To Buy An Appropriate Homeowners Policy And Successfully Make A Claim To The Insurer
Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
It’s Time to Abolish The Tort of Bad Faith
A book examining the creation, history and effect of the Tort of Bad Faith.
Insurance Fraud Costs Everyone
Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
California SIU Regulations 2020
Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
California Fair Claims Settlement Practices Regulations 2022
Minimum Standards for Adjusting Claims in CaliforniaEvery Claims Person in California Must Read, Understand, or be Trained About the California Fair Claims Settlement Practices Regulations by September 1 of Each Year
Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
“Zalma’s Mold & Fungi Handbook”
“Getting the Whole Truth: Interviewing Techniques for the Lawyer”
Learn techniques that can help you interact with others and effectively gather the facts you need.
Zalma on Insurance Claims – Third Edition
Ten Volumes Comprising A Comprehensive Group of Materials on Property & Casualty Insurance Claims
Mold Claims
The Compact Book of Adjusting Property Insurance Claims – Third Edition
A Manual for the First Party Property Insurance Adjuster. https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
The Compact Book on Adjusting Liability Claims, Third Edition
A Handbook for the Liability Claims Adjuster
available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/.
The Little Book on Ethics for the American Lawyer
The practice of law demands more than knowledge of statutory and case law. Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
Random Thoughts on Insurance
Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
Fictionalized True Insurance Crime Books
Insurance Fraud Costs Everyone
available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
Candy and Abel: Murder for Insurance Money
How a young lawyer and wise old investigator defeated an Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
Murder And Insurance Fraud Don’t Mix
Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
Murder & Old Lace: Solving Murders Performed for Insurance Money
Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
Arson for Terrorism and Profit
How an Insurance Investigator and Insurance Lawyer Defeated a Plot to use a Fire to Fund Terrorism
Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
M.O.M. & The Taipei Fraud
How an Experienced Adjuster Defeated a $7 Million Fake Burglary Claim
Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
Arson-For-Profit Fire at the Cowboy Bar & Grill
Available as a paperback. Available as a Kindle book.
The Defeat of a Fake $10 Million Jewelry Robbery Insurance Claim
Available https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/
New Books from Full Court Press
The Insurance Law Deskbook.
Paperback, only $95.00 available at https://www.fastcase.com/store/fcp/insurance-law-deskbook-2/
California Insurance Law Deskbook
Available at https://www.fastcase.com/.../california-insurance-law.../ a paperback for only $95.00.
Zalma on Property and Casualty Insurance Insurance Law Deskbook
Learn the insurance basics that are essential to every civil practitioner. Available at Fastcase.com bookstore.
California Insurance Law Deskbook
Fastcase.com bookstore.
Insurance Bad Faith and Punitive Damages Deskbook
All available at fastcase.com bookstore.
From Thomson Reuters
Property Investigation Checklists Uncovering Insurance Fraud, 13th Edition Available at https://store.legal.thomsonreuters.com/.../p/106702361 and as a THOMSON REUTERS PROVIEW eBOOK EDITION https://store.legal.thomsonreuters.com/.../p/106702363
From the American Bar Association
The Insurance Fraud Deskbook
This book is written for individuals who are focused on the effort to reduce expensive and pervasive occurrences of insurance fraud. Lawyers who represent insurers, claims personnel, prosecutors and their investigators can all benefit from this exhaustive resource
Available at http://shop.americanbar.org/eBus/Default.aspx?TabID=251...; or [email protected], or 800-285-2221.
Diminution in Value Damages
How to Determine the Proper Measure of Damage to Real and Personal Property
The Commercial Property Insurance Policy Deskbook
How to Acquire a Commercial Property Policy and Present and Collect a First-Party Property Insurance Claim
If you buy a book I will add all of your clients to my substack non-subscriber list and as free subscribers to Zalma’s Insurance Fraud Letter.
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If you buy a book I will add all of your clients to my substack non-subscriber list and as free subscribers to Zalma’s Insurance Fraud Letter.
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Formulaic Recitation Of The Elements Of Civil Conspiracy Are Insufficient
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In Hassan Fayad v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, et al., No. 2:25-cv-10930, United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division (March 24, 2026) Plaintiff Hassan Fayad, the owner of several businesses providing transportation, diagnostics, testing, and therapy services, regularly billed insurance companies for these services, was arrested and tried for fraud, convicted, had the conviction overruled and sued the insurers and prosecutors he found responsible.
FACTUAL BACKGROUND
By January 2020, Liberty Mutual, Progressive, Allstate, and Esurance suspected fraudulent activity and filed a complaint with the Michigan Department of Attorney General (MDAG). The insurers alleged that Fayad and others billed Michigan auto insurance policies for profit without actually providing medically ...
Federal Courts Have Limited Jurisdiction
When all Parties Refuse Removal There is No Jurisdiction
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In Beth Mayhew and Matthew Mayhew v. Vladimir Sadovyh, et al., No. 2:26-CV-04029-WJE, United States District Court, W.D. Missouri (April 6, 2026) Mayhew was involved in a trailer-truck accident with Vladimir Sadovyh, who was employed by Nova First, LLC and Globex Transport, Inc. Both companies owned the tractor-trailer involved.
FACTUAL BACKGROUND
Chubb and Mohave Transportation Insurance Company jointly issued an insurance policy covering Nova First, Globex, and Sadovyh, with EMA Risk Services acting as a third-party administrator.
Beth Mayhew sued Nova First, Globex, and Sadovyh for negligence in Missouri state court, and following a jury trial, a nuclear judgment was awarded to the Mayhews totaling ...
Ordinary Negligence is What Medical Professi0nal Liability Insures
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Sexual Conduct Exclusion Doesn’t Apply When Doctor Negligently Uses His Own Sperm
In Integris Insurance Company v. Narendra B. Tohan, No. AC 47222, Court of Appeals of Connecticut (April 7, 2026) Integris Insurance Company, a medical professional liability insurer, initiated a declaratory action to determine its duty to defend and indemnify Narendra B. Tohan, a physician licensed in Connecticut, in a separate negligence action alleging medical misconduct.
FACTUAL BACKGROUND
In 2019, Kayla Suprynowicz and Reilly Flaherty (civil action plaintiffs), who were strangers for most of their lives, discovered through a genetic testing company that they are half siblings.
INSURANCE POLICY
The policy defines “Professional Services” in relevant part as “any professional medical services within the ...
ZIFL – Volume 30, Issue 7 – April 1, 2026
THE SOURCE FOR THE INSURANCE FRAUD PROFESSIONAL
Post number 5314
Posted on April 1, 2026 by Barry Zalma
Zalma’s Insurance Fraud Letter (ZIFL) continues its 30th year of publication dedicated to those involved in reducing the effect of insurance fraud. ZIFL is published 24 times a year by ClaimSchool and is written by Barry Zalma. It is provided FREE to anyone who visits the site at http://zalma.com/zalmas-insurance-fraud-letter-2/ This issue contains the following articles about insurance fraud:
No One is Above the Law – Not Even a Police Officer
Police Officer Convicted for Fraud in Reporting an Accident Affirmed
Police Officer Should never Lie about Results of Chase
In State Of Ohio v. Anthony Holmes, No. 115123, 2026-Ohio-736, Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth District, Cuyahoga (March 5, 2026) a police officer appealed criminal conviction as a result of lies about a high speed chase.
Read the following article and the full issue of ZIFL at https://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ZIFL-04-01-2026-1.pdf...
ZIFL – Volume 30, Issue 7 – April 1, 2026
THE SOURCE FOR THE INSURANCE FRAUD PROFESSIONAL
Post number 5314
Posted on April 1, 2026 by Barry Zalma
Zalma’s Insurance Fraud Letter (ZIFL) continues its 30th year of publication dedicated to those involved in reducing the effect of insurance fraud. ZIFL is published 24 times a year by ClaimSchool and is written by Barry Zalma. It is provided FREE to anyone who visits the site at http://zalma.com/zalmas-insurance-fraud-letter-2/ This issue contains the following articles about insurance fraud:
No One is Above the Law – Not Even a Police Officer
Police Officer Convicted for Fraud in Reporting an Accident Affirmed
Police Officer Should never Lie about Results of Chase
In State Of Ohio v. Anthony Holmes, No. 115123, 2026-Ohio-736, Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth District, Cuyahoga (March 5, 2026) a police officer appealed criminal conviction as a result of lies about a high speed chase.
Read the following article and the full issue of ZIFL at https://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ZIFL-04-01-2026-1.pdf...
Posted on March 30, 2026 by Barry Zalma
Insurance Fraud, a Way to Reduce Violent Crime
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A Fictionalized True Crime Story of Insurance Fraud from an Expert who explains why Insurance Fraud is a “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose” situation for Insurers. The story helps to Understand How Insurance Fraud in America is Costing Everyone who Buys Insurance Thousands of Dollars Every year and Why Insurance Fraud is Safer and More Profitable for the Perpetrators than any Other Crime.
She Taught Her Customers The Swoop And Squat:
Recently the California Insurance Department’s Fraud Division arrested a young woman in Los Angeles County for operating an insurance fraud school. She advertised her classes in the “Penny Saver” an advertising sheet distributed free to the public and a print version of Facebook, X Craig’s list. She had operated for several years teaching methods of committing automobile insurance fraud. Only after a police officer enrolled in one of her classes was she arrested.
Her defense ...
