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Extreme Weather and Natural Disasters - Insurance Tips for Commercial Policyholders

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Storms and hurricanes, isolated but powerful tornados, earthquakes, fires, and floods—the question is not whether, but where and when policyholders will confront the next natural disaster. Climate change is clearly having an...more

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What Landlords and Tenants Need to Know This Hurricane Season 2023

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The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season begins this Thursday and will continue until November 30. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the season is expected to be relatively average in terms of...more

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Great Sargasso Seaweed Event May Lead to Covered Business Interruption and Loss of Use

As summer vacation rolls around and hotels, restaurants and other hospitality companies gear up for a busy tourist season, coastal businesses in the U.S. Southeast, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean may be welcoming an unexpected...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Hurricane Ian: Insurance Implications

Hurricane Ian struck Florida on September 28. By late afternoon, it was a Category 5 storm with top winds of 155 miles per hour, producing huge storm surges along a wide area of the state’s southwestern coast. Damage is...more

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What Landlords and Tenants Need to Know This Hurricane Season (UPDATED)

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This year, forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are predicting another above-average Atlantic hurricane season, which runs June 1 through November 30. NOAA is predicting between 14 and 21 named...more

Jones Day

Maximizing Insurance Recoveries for Hurricane Ida Losses and the Remainder of the 2021 Hurricane Season

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With Hurricane Ida having battered Louisiana, Mississippi and various other states, businesses will soon look to secure insurance recoveries for the significant property damage and business income losses left in its wake....more

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The Service Interruption Crisis Portends Yet Another Deluge of Insurance Claims and Litigation

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In recent days, we have been watching a disaster play out in Texas. A blast of arctic air that plunged south caused natural gas and oil pipelines to freeze, interrupting the supply of fuel to power plants, and ultimately...more

Carlton Fields

New York Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Discovery Into Other Hurricane Sandy Claims

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In Knickerbocker Village Inc. v. Lexington Insurance Co., New York’s Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, dictated a clear rule for single-insured cases regarding the discovery of an insurer’s treatment of insurance...more

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Hurricane Michael devastates the Florida Panhandle

Last week, Hurricane Michael devastated the Florida Panhandle. The hurricane was the third strongest to strike the United States and the largest to ever make landfall on the Florida Panhandle. Some of Florida’s most historic...more

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Flood Exclusion Unambiguously Excludes Coverage For $49.5M In Hurricane Sandy Losses Caused By Storm Surge

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Cozen O’Connor attorneys Thomas McKay III, Richard Mackowsky, Charles Jesuit, and Melissa Brill recently secured summary judgment from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in favor of Great...more

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