(Note: This guest blog is by Colleen Foster, a Summer Law Clerk in our Chicago office)
All too often in fire claims, insurance companies are quick to deny a fire claim and assert that the insured was involved in setting the fire. But what happens when an insurance company doesn’t formally allege arson in its denial letter, or in its answer and affirmative defenses? Is it enough to insinuate arson through cause-and-origin evidence?