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Goldberg Segalla

[Webinar] An Ohio Primer: Critical Insurance Coverage Issues in the Buckeye State - April 9th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

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Ohio presents unique challenges to practitioners handling insurance claims in the state. Join Goldberg Segalla partners Michael A. Hamilton and Sean P. Hvisdas as they host a live, interactive webinar on some of the most...more

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Caused, in Whole or In Part, By: Additional Insured Coverage in the Wake of Burlington v. NYCTA

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Obtaining additional insured coverage is one critical tool in the risk transfer toolbox. Owners and contractors on construction projects routinely ask “downstream” contractors and subcontractors to sign contracts wherein the...more

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When 1% Equals 100%: New York Rejects Fault Based Approach to Additional Insured Coverage

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When a named insured is only 1% responsible for an accident, what percentage of indemnity coverage is owed to an additional insured? A recent New York federal court says 100%. In New York, additional insured coverage may very...more

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California Appellate Court Confirms: Additional Insureds Are First-Class Citizens

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Many businesses shift risk by requiring others with whom they do business – e.g., vendors, subcontractors, suppliers, and others – to procure insurance on their behalf by making the business an “additional insured” under the...more

Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC

Who is an Insured Anyway? New Additional Insured Requirements for New York Construction Professionals

Construction professionals in New York face new hurdles in ensuring they are covered as additional insureds under other parties’ commercial general liability insurance policies....more

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP

Timing is Everything: Defending Subcontractors Against Breach of Construction Contract Claims

Transfer of risk and liability are common occurrences in the field of construction. National builders often employ a single licensed general contractor to oversee the totality of its construction projects throughout the state...more

Butler Snow LLP

Another (need we say it?) Disappointed Additional Insured

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One commentator has called the scope of Additional Insured coverage “[o]ne of the oldest and most confounding debates in the insurance world.” Another chapter was written the other day in Pioneer Cent. Sch. Dist. v. Preferred...more

Jones Day

Don't Sleep on This: New York High Court Addresses Scope of "Blanket" Additional Insured Endorsements

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The Situation: The issue of whether "blanket" additional insured endorsements require direct contractual privity with an insurance policy's "named insured" has received inconsistent treatment by U.S. courts. The...more

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Illinois Appellate Court Holds Insurer Owed Coverage in Fatal Chicago Gang Shooting Lawsuit, but Insurer Did Not Commit Bad Faith...

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On March 1, 2018, an Illinois appellate court held an insurer breached its duties to defend and indemnify a grocer after gang members shot and killed a young woman and injured another outside of the Chicago grocer. The court...more

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“Additional Insured” counseled to read the policy

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An Illinois General Contractor learned a hard lesson the other day; the case is Vivify Constr., LLC v. Nautilus Ins. Co., 2017 IL App (1st) 170192. The General Contractor, Vivify Construction, subcontracted part of the job...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

First Look - Fall 2017: Issues and Developments in Insurance Law

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“Insureds may wish, or be contractually obligated, to extend their insurance coverage to other individuals or entities,” commonly referred to as additional insureds. In fact, in certain industries, additional insured...more

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AIG Must Defend Additional Insureds

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That it took an appellate court to order AIG’s Lexington Insurance to honor its additional insured obligations is a measure of how frequently insurers attempt to dodge this important contractual obligation. The case of...more

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