The Nevada Law Blogs have been serializing the arguments made by the parties in the case of State Farm v. Hansen. We had imagined the two opponents in this case standing face-to-face in an old-west gunfight. The question to be resolved by this dual is if and under what circumstance an insurance company should be forced to give up its contractual right to select the attorney who will defend the insured and instead allow the insured to choose its own independent counsel at the expense of the … [Read more...]