{"id":1851,"date":"2024-07-18T21:48:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T21:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/circuit-court-revives-homeowners-insurance-suit-over-public-auction-confusion\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T21:48:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T21:48:19","slug":"circuit-court-revives-homeowners-insurance-suit-over-public-auction-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/circuit-court-revives-homeowners-insurance-suit-over-public-auction-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Circuit Court Revives Homeowners Insurance Suit Over Public Auction Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Rejecting Nationwide Insurance\u2019s arguments brought by a midsized regional firm that an ordinary person would understand that a \u201cpost third sale offering\u201d of a tax-delinquent home is considered a \u201cpublic auction,\u201d the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a lower court\u2019s order siding with the insurer.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1-lyMZrNxUZr2b6GQSGMu3A_ZUFjeYzdD\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">July 16 opinion<\/a>, authored by Judge Duane Benton, the three-judge panel reversed a\u00a0U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri decision granting summary judgment to Nationwide Insurance, represented by attorneys with Watters Wolf Bub Hansmann based in Missouri.\u00a0A dispute arose between the insurance company and a homeowner,\u00a0Kalvin Earl Richardson, who it claimed misrepresented in his application that his home was not purchased at a public auction.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rejecting Nationwide Insurance\u2019s arguments brought by a midsized regional firm that an ordinary person would understand that a \u201cpost third sale offering\u201d of a tax-delinquent home is considered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2577,610,2578,143,2576,1566,345,2383,339],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-auction","tag-circuit","tag-confusion","tag-court","tag-homeowners","tag-insurance","tag-public","tag-revives","tag-suit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}