{"id":8746,"date":"2021-08-08T09:18:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T13:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8746"},"modified":"2021-08-08T09:18:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T13:18:06","slug":"settlement-enforced-in-excess-of-policy-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8746","title":{"rendered":"Settlement Enforced in Excess of Policy Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is proper for a court to enforce a prior settlement order against an insurance company for a wrongful death and survival action, even though the settlement amount exceeds the policy limits, when the initial release was prepared by the insurer&#8217;s attorney, the attorney received notice of the filing of the petition to approve the settlement, there was no appeal from the approval, and there was no fraud, misrepresentation, or mutual mistake.  <em>Edwards Estate<\/em>, 11 Fid.Rep.3d 123 (Bucks O.C. 2021), on appeal, 188 EDA 2021 (Pa. Super.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is proper for a court to enforce a prior settlement order against an insurance company for a wrongful death and survival action, even though the settlement amount exceeds the policy limits, when the initial release was prepared by the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8746\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[760,416],"class_list":["post-8746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-liability-insurance","tag-wrongful-death","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8748,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746\/revisions\/8748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}