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White and Williams LLP

Top Developments: 2025 - Issue 2

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Bob Robison Com. Flooring Inc. v. RLI Ins. Co., 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 6369 (8th Cir., Mar. 19, 2025) - Eighth Circuit, predicting Arkansas law, concludes that an ensuing loss exception to a “Defects, Errors, Or Omissions”...more

Kennedys

[Webinar] Business income claims & the LA wildfires - May 1st, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST

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Kennedys partners Jared Greisman, Aaron Konstam, Louis Kozloff and Colin Willmott will be presenting a webinar on understanding business income claims on May 1, 2025. The webinar will survey key contours of business income...more

Morgan Lewis

California Wildfires: Essential Insurance Recovery Considerations for Businesses and Homeowners

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The devastating wildfires that have rapidly spread across Los Angeles this month underscore the need for businesses and homeowners to be prepared to make insurance claims when natural disasters strike. This LawFlash details...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

Understanding Business Interruption Insurance: What Those Impacted by the LA Fires Need to Know

The recent fires in Los Angeles have left many businesses grappling with significant disruptions. For business owners, navigating the aftermath of such a catastrophe often includes understanding how their insurance policies,...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Los Angeles Wildfires - Insurance Coverage Pointers for Home and Business Losses

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Policyholders affected by the devastating fires should take certain immediate steps to maximize potential recovery. The Los Angeles County wildfires that began on January 7, 2025, and continue to ravage the communities of...more

Buchalter

I Just Lost My Home or Business to a Fire, What Do I Do Next?

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Take a deep breath. Losing one’s home or business to a fire is devastating and the road to recovery will be long and winding. First and foremost, you need to take care of yourself and your family. Make sure everyone is safe,...more

Houston Harbaugh, P.C.

Supreme Court Of North Carolina Holds That Losses Caused By The COVID-19 Shutdown Orders Are Direct Physical Loss Covered By...

On December 13, 2024, the Supreme Court of North Carolina broke with the nationwide trend, holding that, absent a virus exclusion, commercial property insurance policies cover losses covered by the shutdown orders issued in...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

North Carolina Supreme Court: Government-Ordered Business Closures During COVID-19 Lockdowns Constitute “Direct Physical loss”...

On December 13, the North Carolina Supreme Court gave policyholders a partial victory in long-running litigation over business interruption coverage for shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. In North State Deli v....more

Zelle  LLP

The Zelle Lonestar Lowdown Issue 20 - December 2024

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Welcome to The Zelle Lonestar Lowdown, our monthly newsletter bringing you relevant and up-to-date news concerning Texas first-party property insurance law. Inside this Issue: - Todd Tippett’s Top Ten Consultants an...more

Houston Harbaugh, P.C.

Third Circuit Shuts Down Policyholder’s Requests for Insurance Coverage for COVID-19 Related Business Losses

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Wilson et al v. USI Insurance Services, LLC, et al., - In Wilson et al v. USI Insurance Services, LLC et al., No. 20-3124 (3d Cir. Oct. 8, 2024) the Third Circuit recently denied a petition for rehearing on COVID-19 related...more

Flaster Greenberg PC

Does the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Holding in Ungarean, Represent the End of the War Over Insurance for Covid Losses or Just...

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently rendered its eagerly awaited decision in Ungarean v. CNA et al., declaring that losses resulting from Covid-related governmental closure orders were not covered by business interruption...more

Jones Day

Maximizing Insurance Recoveries for Hurricane Helene Losses and the Remainder of the 2024 Hurricane Season

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The Situation: On September 26, 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall and left a path of destruction from the Florida coast through North Carolina, with total insured losses estimated in the tens of billions of dollars....more

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Hurricanes Helene and Milton: Insurance Implications

Hurricane Helene struck Florida’s Big Bend region as a category 4 hurricane on September 25, 2024, and continued to move northeast. The storm caused widespread power outages and catastrophic damage across Florida, the...more

Houston Harbaugh, P.C.

Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania in Ungarean Case Holds There Is No Coverage For Losses Caused By The COVID‑19 Shutdown Orders

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On September 26, 2024, Pennsylvania joined the majority of jurisdictions nationwide in holding that commercial property insurance policies do not cover losses caused by the government shutdown orders issued in response to the...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

September 2024 Insurance Update

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In this month’s update, we discuss Russian-seized planes, Starbucks-caused traffic jams, a squabble over the use of a family name, a restaurant’s pandemic-based loss, a poorly built house, and whether insurance covers any of...more

Cozen O'Connor

Does a sagging floor constitute a “collapse”? Court finds ambiguity in “collapse.”

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In Life Skills, Inc. v. Harleysville Insurance Company, 2024 WL 3792261 (D. Mass. 2024), the District Court of Massachusetts found that “collapse” provisions within a commercial property policy were ambiguous where a floor...more

Cozen O'Connor

Claims Notes: August 2024

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The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) previously circulated proposed guidance on using AI in underwriting and pricing to address discrimination. DFS requested public comment. Commenters expressed concern over: ...more

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Court Addresses Whether Rainwater Accumulation on Roof Constituted “Surface Water”

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In Zurich American Insurance Company v. Medical Properties Trust, Inc., 2024 WL 3504060 (Mass. Jul. 23, 2024), the Supreme Court of Massachusetts held that the term “surface waters,” as used in a limitation contained in a...more

K&L Gates LLP

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

Marshall Dennehey

Florida Supreme Court: Trial Courts May Compel Appraisal Before Resolving Concurrent Coverage Disputes

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On February 1, 2024, the Supreme Court of Florida issued its opinion in American Coastal Ins. Co. v. San Marco Villas Condominium Ass’n, Inc., 2024 WL 369079 (Fla. 2024), to address a persisting conflict on the timing of...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Insurance Recovery for Businesses Impacted by the Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

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On March 26, a containership struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, resulting in the collapse of the highway infrastructure and tragic loss of life. As communities grieve the loss of their loved ones,...more

Sands Anderson PC

Passing The Buck to Consumers: Insurance Update

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Sands Anderson’s Brian Pitney recently interviewed independent insurance agent Chris Hall, owner of The Halls of Insurance about recent changes in the insurance industry.  They discussed increases in insurance premiums,...more

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Maui Wildfires - Coverage Considerations and What Business Policyholders Need to Know

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The Maui wildfires are now the deadliest—and certainly among the most destructive—in modern US history, already outpacing the loss of life and impact on critical wildlife habitat/species of the 2018 Camp fire in California....more

Woodruff Sawyer

Best Practices: Making Sense of the Commercial Property Claims Process

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Whether it’s caused by nature, human or mechanical error, or an unfortunate combination of all three, property damage of any kind is stressful. You already know that prompt action can help mitigate any dangers to your...more

J.S. Held

How to Handle Complex Ports and Terminals Business Interruption Insurance Claims

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Ports and terminals serve as the primary infrastructure for movement of goods and commodities in and out of a country and therefore play a vital role in global trade. As well as facilitating trade, ports and terminals also...more

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