A recent decision by a North Carolina federal court adds to a list of cases requiring insurance company defendants in coverage actions to produce reinsurance agreements as part of their initial disclosures under Federal Rule...more
In a recent decision dismissing claims against a workers compensation insurer as time barred, a New York trial court briefly addressed the often perplexing issue of when a cause of action accrues for breach of insurance and...more
As legislators in New Jersey debate a new law that would force insurers to pay COVID-19-related claims that are excluded under the plain language of their new law, insurers are left to contemplate a number of critical...more
On March 2, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued its long-anticipated ruling in the Global v. Century case. More than five years after applying the Bellefonte Rule to hold that a...more
New York’s Child Victims Act (CVA) – which opens a one-year window for sex abuse victims of any age to bring a lawsuit for abuse that occurred at any time – took effect on August 14, 2019. Just in the first day of its...more
The Second Circuit recently joined other circuit courts in adopting a different standard for determining the evident partiality of a party-appointed arbitrator than a neutral arbitrator or umpire. In Certain Underwriting...more