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Appellate Judge Proposes Possible Use of GenAI for Contract Interpretation – Recognizes That AI Hallucinates but Flesh-And-Blood...

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By now, most lawyers have heard of judges sanctioning lawyers for misuse of generative AI, typically for not fact checking the outputs. Other judges have issued local rules governing use of or prohibiting AI. These actions...more

Maron Marvel

Contractual Additional Insureds – What Coverage? The Texas Supreme Court Weighs In

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Primary and excess insurance carriers and their counsel need to pay close attention to a new Texas Supreme Court case Exxon Mobil vs. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and Starr Indemnity &...more

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Supreme Court Favours Policyholders In COVID-19 Business Interruption Claims

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On 15 January 2021, judgment was handed down in the leapfrog appeal heard by the Supreme Court in the test case brought by the Financial Conduct Authority in relation to the responsiveness of business interruption insurance...more

Butler Snow LLP

Contracts May “Legally” Obligate a Party to Pay, Even Without a Court Judgment

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Time and again, courts have been tasked with construing ambiguous and inconsistent terms in contracts. Recently, the Sixth Circuit revisited the issue of interpreting contractual language in Dark Horse Express, LLC v. Lancer...more

Carlton Fields

New York Court Of Appeals Holds There Is No Presumption Of Expense-Inclusive Caps In Liability Limit Clauses In Facultative...

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The New York Court of Appeals recently answered in the negative a question certified to it by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit regarding prior precedent and whether per occurrence liability limits in...more

Bilzin Sumberg

The Eighth Circuit Raises the Bar for Would-Be Indemnitees

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Here is a situation that comes up quite a bit in the world of business contracts containing indemnification provisions, and in the insurance industry as well. First, a party (“Party A”) gets sued, or threatened with a suit,...more

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Are You Really An Additional Insured?

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Parties structuring transactions or business relationships often attempt to shift risk to their counter-party by having such party included as an additional insured on the counter-party’s insurance policies. In the real...more

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP

Understanding How Insurance Policy Conditions Apply When There is an Assignment of Benefits

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Florida first-party property insurers have seen a dramatic rise in assigned insurance claims. In the typical scenario, an insured assigns her rights to receive insurance proceeds from a loss to a contractor in return for the...more

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