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Goldberg Segalla

[Webinar] The Fungus Among Us: Proactive Strategies for Adjustment of Mold-Related Claims - March 28th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

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In this webinar, Goldberg Segalla’s Larry D. Mason and Kerry L. Jones will explore the primary fungi that serve as the foundation for most mold-related claims, common health problems associated with insured’s and third-party...more

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[Webinar] The Time-Limited, Policy-Limit Demand: A Legal and Practical Approach - February 28th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST

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Join Goldberg Segalla partners Christian A. Cavallo and Dustin C. Blumenthal for an interactive webinar discussing practical and legal considerations for insurers presented with a time-limited demand that they pay their...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

New York Insurance Coverage Law Update - March 2022

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Fourth Department Holds Landlord Covered As Additional Insured Under Tenant’s Policy For Accident On Driveway Of Leased Premises- Technology Insurance Company, as the liability insurer for a landlord, filed a declaratory...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

Part Four: Reviewing Key U.S. Insurance Decisions, Trends, & Developments

Civil Unrest, Riots, And Strikes - This is the fourth installment of our series of articles reviewing some of the key trends and developments currently impacting the U.S. insurance industry. Many commentators have...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Keeping the Cap On the Policy: Unreasonable Conduct Is a Necessary Element of a “Bad Faith Failure to Settle” Claim

Pinto v. Farmers Ins. Exch., ___ Cal. App. 5th ___ (2021) - Over the past several years, the insurance industry in California has been plagued by waves of “bad faith failure to settle” claims. These claims arise out of a...more

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State COVID-19 Liability Shields Create Insurance Challenges

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The COVID-19 pandemic has created evolving uncertainties for insurers providing coverage throughout the U.S. As the pandemic spread throughout the country, insurers faced an influx of first-party claims related to decreased...more

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP

Subro Sense - The ABC's of RCV and ACV

Oftentimes, third-party liability adjusters will refuse to pay the full amount of the “Repair Cost Value” (“RCV”) of the damages included in the subrogation demand, and contend that they only owe “Actual Cash Value” (“ACV”),...more

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Insurance Coverage Issues in the Midst of COVID-19

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The 2019 novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) continues to disrupt everyday life and scientific experts and world leaders agree that there is no concrete end in sight. Policyholders are understandably concerned wondering if their...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

3 Lessons For Calif. Insureds From Late-Notice Rule Decision

In Pitzer College v. Indian Harbor Insurance Company, the California Supreme Court resolved two previously open questions in insurance law: (1) it concluded that the notice-prejudice rule is a fundamental public policy of...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Insurers Beware: Choice of Law Provisions May be Overridden by Public Policy Provisions

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In answering two questions posed to it by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the California Supreme Court on August 29, 2019, addressed two significant issues: 1) whether California’s common law notice-prejudice rule is a...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

California Supreme Court Ruling Clarifies That the Notice-Prejudice Rule Is a Fundamental Public Policy That May Override Choice...

In Pitzer College v. Indian Harbor Insurance Company, the California Supreme Court resolved two previously open questions in insurance law: (1) it concluded that the notice-prejudice rule is a fundamental public policy of...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Hit and Run Accidents

Under Florida law, all drivers are required to stop at the scene when they are involved in an accident. Unfortunately, despite the criminal penalties for “leaving the scene of an accident,” hit and run accidents are common,...more

Pillsbury - Policyholder Pulse blog

Environmental Closure Costs Are Covered! (And Are Not Ordinary Costs of Doing Business)

Insurers have recently argued that environmental property damage claims for “closure” costs arising out of historic pollution are not covered, because the claimed damages are just “ordinary costs of doing business.”...more

Cozen O'Connor

Massachusetts: Third-Party Claim Handler Made Reasonable, Prompt Efforts to Settle Nursing Home Liability Claim, and Therefore Was...

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On March 18, 2019, the First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a decision holding that Sedgwick Claims Management Services made reasonable and prompt efforts to settle a nursing home liability claim, and therefore was not...more

Carlton Fields

Defining ‘Logical Connection’: NC Federal Court Tackles ‘Related Claims’

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Insurance carriers and policyholders often argue about the scope of policy provisions. Generally, policyholders take an expansive view of insuring agreements, while carriers often construe them more narrowly. But not all...more

Pillsbury - Policyholder Pulse blog

Another Appellate Court Holds that Faulty Work Constitutes an Occurrence – This Time Under New York Law

It is axiomatic that in order to obtain insurance coverage a policyholder must first establish that a claim falls within a policy’s insuring agreement before coverage under the policy is triggered. For construction claims...more

Jaburg Wilk

Arizona Insurers Beware of "Pay-and-Chase"--Arizona Supreme Court Rejects Expansion of Equitable Indemnification

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The Holding - In Knightbrook Insurance Company v. Payless Car Rental System Incorporated, 2018 WL 769295 (Ariz. February 8, 2018), an insurance bad faith and equitable indemnification case arising from an auto claim, the...more

Cozen O'Connor

Should You Withdraw The Reservation of Rights To Avoid Entry of a Consent Judgment?

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An insurer that defends its insured against a third party’s lawsuit, while reserving rights to deny coverage to its insured for any judgment, may face a decision point when underlying settlement discussions become ripe to...more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

Court Holds that Following Form Excess Policy Wording Does Not Also Include Underinsured Motorist Coverage of Primary Policy

In Haering v. Topa Insurance (No. B260235; filed 2/3/16), a California appeals court held that an excess liability insurance policy that “followed form” to an underlying primary policy providing uninsured...more

Nossaman LLP

Purchasing Cyber Insurance? Important Considerations from the Recent Nossaman/ UCI Cyber Symposium

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On October 12, 2015, Nossaman and UC Irvine hosted a Cyber Symposium at the City Club in Los Angeles. The event included four panels of Nossaman lawyers, UCI professors, and private professionals who are experts in the areas...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Policyholder Insider Quarterly

Makers and Users of Smart Devices Beware: You May Have a Critical and Costly Gap in Your Insurance Coverage - The drumbeat of high-profile data breaches has led to rapid growth in the number of companies purchasing or...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

First Party vs. Third Party – Who can sue for bad faith?

For the purpose of those individuals who undertake direct representations of insurers, it is significant to be able to recognize who can sue an insurer (their clients) for bad faith. Nine years have passed since the...more

K&L Gates LLP

New Zealand's Highest Court Makes Life Difficult for D&O Policyholders (and Their Insurers)

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The Supreme Court of New Zealand (Court) last month handed down the latest in a series of decisions, both in New Zealand and Australia, relating to the enforceability of 'statutory charges' over insurance monies – and it is...more

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Washington Bars Insurers from Maintaining Legal Malpractice Suit Against Policyholder Defense Counsel

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In Stewart Title Guar. Co. v. Sterling Savings Bank, et al., Wash. No. 87087-0 (October 3, 2013), the Washington Supreme Court held that a nonclient insurer may not pursue a malpractice claim against appointed defense counsel...more

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No Bad Faith Recovery Based on Insurer’s Investigation of Claims Under Connecticut Law

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On certification from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, the Supreme Court of Connecticut recently issued an opinion holding that an insurer’s bad faith conduct in the investigation of a third-party...more

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