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2024 Insurance Law Compendium for California

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The Fair Claims Settlement Practice Regulations set forth the relevant time limits for claims handling responses and determinations. The most important time limits are: 15 days to acknowledge receipt of claim (10 Cal. Code...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Ninth Circuit Affirms Ruling That Section 533 Bars Coverage for Defense Costs and Indemnity When Claims Broadly Allege Willful...

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, applying California law, has affirmed a district court’s determination that California Insurance Code § 533 barred indemnity and defense costs coverage for a lawsuit...more

White and Williams LLP

Top Developments - September 2022

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Pepsi-Cola Metro. Bottling Co. v. Emp’rs Ins. Co., 2022 Wisc. App. LEXIS 598 (Wisc. Ct. App. July 8, 2022) - Wisconsin Court of Appeals (in a divided decision) holds that a “post-loss” assignment of rights under a...more

Adams & Reese

Insurers Get Relief: CA Rules No Duty to Defend in Opioid Lawsuits. Will Other States Follow?

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Since 2014, thousands of individual lawsuits have been filed by state and local governments against opioid makers resulting from the influx of these drugs in the marketplace. To defray the costs in defending against these...more

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Petition to Remove Trustee Constitutes Covered Claim

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The Northern District of California has held that an insurer had a duty to defend a trustee against a suit by a trust beneficiary seeking his removal, even though the trustee was not specifically named as a defendant in the...more

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