Blog & Updates
Lether & Associates Annual Fall Insurance Review – Date Change
Due to the favorable interest in our in-house CE program scheduled for October 25, 2017 and Tom Lether’s trial calendar and case schedule, Lether & Associates is moving the seminar date to November 15, 2017. The seminar will still be held at our lakeside office on...
Lether & Associates Annual Fall Insurance Review
Since Lether & Associates was founded, our firm has made the training of our attorneys and education of our clients a priority. The firm regularly presents seminars, in-house training and regularly publishes updates on important cases on developments in the...
Insurance in the Construction Industry Law Seminar October 5-6, 2017
Tom Lether is proud to once again be the chairperson for the Seminar Group's Insurance in the Construction Industry Law seminar. This two-day event, which Tom has chaired for the last 4 years, is this year focusing particularly on insurance issues involving the...
Lether & Associates and the U.S. Supreme Court
Although U.S. Supreme Court appearances are few and far between, Tom Lether has now been officially licensed to practice in the highest court in the land. Effective the spring of 2017, Mr. Lether has been fully licensed as a practicing attorney before the United...
Advanced Insurance Bad Faith
On August 30, 2017, the National Business Institute will be presenting a full-day CLE seminar on advanced insurance bad faith in Washington and the Northwest. Speakers will include Thomas Lether and Kyle Silk-Eglit of Lether & Associates who will be speaking...
Oregon Supreme Court Expands Availability of Attorney Fee Awards under ORS 742.061
For years, Oregon’s primary legislative device for compelling prompt settlement of insurance claims has been the availability of an attorney fee award for insureds who recover more than the amount tendered by an insurer within six months of the proof of loss in a...
Join Tom Lether at West Coast Casualty’s 24th Annual Construction Defect Seminar
Tom Lether will be speaking on two different panels at West Coast Casualty’s 24th Annual Construction Defect Seminar at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California. He will be speaking on the following dates and times: Wednesday May 17, 2017 from 8:30-12:00pm --- in...
New Oregon Decision Will Affect Insurers in Many Ways
The Court of Appeals of the State of Oregon issued a decision on May 10, 2017 in the matter titled Hunters Ridge Condominium Assoc. v. Sherwood Cross, LLC, et al. that could potentially impact future Construction Defect cases in Oregon. The Hunters Ridge appeal arose...
Washington Caselaw Update
On Thursday, April 27, 2017, the Washington Supreme Court issued a new decision that may have a significant impact on the business of insurance in the State of Washington. The new decision, Xia v. Probuilders Specialty Ins. Co., is the first Washington appellate...