Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 308: Listen and Learn -- Crimes Against the Person (Part 2)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 307: Listen and Learn -- Crimes Against the Person (Part 1)
Coverage Issues Arising Out of Assault and Battery Claims
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 288: Listen and Learn -- Assault and Battery (Torts)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 103: Listen and Learn –- Assault and Battery
Compliance Perspectives: Healthcare Compliance at the Border
In this third installment in our Aviation Symposium series of blog posts, we present the materials from the panel on Flight Attendants and Customer Service Agents: Risks and Liabilities. Our guest panelists included several...more
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
Examining the Applicability of Liability Policy Exclusions to Shooting Incident-Related Claims - Shootings, both on an individual and large-scale level, have become a growing reality in the United States in recent years. In...more
On September 22, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held in a non-precedential opinion that an insurer had no duty to defend a school bus transportation company under an auto policy for an alleged assault...more
Mental state, in some form, is the common theme running through our first three cases this month. The Fifth Circuit decides whether directors and officers of an ice cream company, accused of breaching their fiduciary...more
In Nautilus Insurance Co. v. Motel Management Services Inc., the Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that a commercial general liability policy’s assault or battery exclusion barred coverage for claims involving alleged sex...more
Coverage disputes often center on whether the policy language is clear. Under the rules of contract construction, unambiguous language in an insurance policy must be given its plain and ordinary meaning. Sometimes,...more
Join Goldberg Segalla's Christian A. Cavallo and Elizabeth A. McBride for a free and interactive webinar discussing common coverage issues arising from assault and battery claims, and the ways in which courts have addressed...more
Texas practitioners can add a new term to their legal vocabulary: “the Monroe exception.” The Texas Supreme Court has finally weighed in on whether to create an exception to the eight corners rule when determining if an...more
Southern District of New York Holds That COVID-19 Claim Not Covered- Café du Soleil (the Café) operates a small Manhattan restaurant that suffered financial losses during the COVID-19 pandemic and suspended operations...more
Appellate courts have been busy the last few weeks deciding a wide swath of insurance issues. The Eighth Circuit became the first federal appellate court to weigh in on pandemic-related business interruption claims. ...more
ADDITIONAL AND NAMED INSUREDS/PRIORITY- Court Rules “C/O” Company In Contract Not An Additional Insured- A construction worker sued Blue Woods Management Group, Inc. alleging that he was injured while working... ...more
A business concedes that it made a mistake, but pleads for mercy with the jury and asks for a reasonable amount of damages. A jury ultimately awards $6 million. There are several insurance policies involved. Who is left...more
In this space alone, there has been a plethora of cases in which coverage was denied based upon an assault and battery exclusion of a commercial general liability (CGL) policy. Recently, in a per curium opinion, the Court of...more
A lawsuit filed by Danielle Roland against Klub Kutter’s Bar & Lounge alleged that on September 6, 2015, Roland was a “business invitee” at Klub Kutter’s in Fort Lauderdale, Florida....more
Any regular reader has seen a number of articles here regarding assault and/or battery exclusions of insurance policies. These exclusions are commonly part of commercial general liability (“CGL”) and liquor liability...more
2017 is steadily becoming the year of the assault in South Carolina. Founders Insurance Company v. John Hamilton a/k/a Jim Hamilton, individually and d/b/a Aces High Club, Aces High Club and Kenneth Weatherford, 2017 WL...more
Jesse Bass was a guest at Henry’s Sports Bar in December 2012, when the bouncer struck him in the head with such force that he was knocked unconscious and suffered serious brain injury. Bass brought an action against Henry’s,...more
In a recent United States District Court decision, the court denied the insurer’s motion for summary judgment as to its duty to defend and indemnify for an alleged assault and battery. The facts of Certain Underwriters at...more