AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 4: What to Do When Insurance Companies Deny Behavioral Health Claims
Best Practices for Negotiating Manuscript Exclusions
Coverage Issues Arising Out of Assault and Battery Claims
Long-Term Effects of Russia/Ukraine on Insurance
Mediating Complex Insurance Coverage Disputes Series Part 3 – Breaking the Log Jam
Cyberside Chats: There is a war in Europe. What does that mean for your cyber insurance policy?
Mediating Complex Insurance Coverage Disputes Series Part 2 – What Goes on in Mediation?
Mediating Complex Insurance Coverage Disputes Series Part 1 – Preparing For The Mediation
Out With a Bang: Current State of Play on Coverage for COVID-Related Losses
Settling a Claim: Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable
NGE OnDemand: The Importance of Timely Reporting Occurrences, Claims and Suits to Insurers with Paul Walker-Bright
Lowenstein’s New Insurance Recovery Podcast Series, “Don’t Take No for an Answer”
Ledgers and Law: Roadblocks Facing the Cannabis Industry
Subro Sense - The ABC's of RCV and ACV
WEBINAR: COVID-19 Insurance Coverage Class Actions
What to Do When Your Insurance Carrier Says No: How to Protect Yourself from Coverage Denials
In this case, Safeco Insurance Company of Indiana (“Safeco”) issued a residential policy to Venugopal Muriki (the “Insured”) covering the Insured’s dwelling. On December 10, 2024, the Insured submitted a claim with Safeco...more
The Appellate Court of Illinois recently reminded insurers that they may be estopped from raising coverage defenses through their misleading acts or statements, including silence. In Monroy-Perez v. Sentry Select Ins. Co.,...more
Security First Insurance Company v. Linda Visca and Silvio Visca, No. 4D2023-0961, June 5, 2024 - On February 20, 2020, the defendant was notified of the plaintiffs’ September 10, 2017, Hurricane Irma claim. The policy stated...more
Policyholders frequently are vexed by the nuances of reporting requirements in claims-made policies, which generally provide coverage only for a “Claim” made during the policy period. While this may sound like a...more
A federal district court, applying Washington law, has held that coverage for a claim was barred because an insured failed to provide notice within the claim-made policy’s reporting deadline. In November 2017, the insured...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, applying Massachusetts law, held that no coverage was available for a lawsuit because the insured failed to provide timely notice to the insurer. The insured...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Hanover Ins. Co. v. R.W. Dunteman Co., 2022 WL 13769371, --- F.4th --- (7th Cir. Oct. 24, 2022), recently interpreted Illinois law on the aggregation provisions in a claims...more
The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, applying Massachusetts law, has held that a university’s late-noticed claim was not covered under a claims-made-and-reported insurance policy....more
A Louisiana federal district court has held that a claims-made-and-reported professional liability policy did not provide coverage for a claim first made and reported years after the policy expired. Sistrunk v. Haddox, 2021...more
When disaster strikes your business or a lawsuit is filed against you in responding to the crisis, it is easy to overlook the existence of insurance that may reimburse you for the associated expenses and damages. A delay in...more
Contract Interpretation McCruter v. Travelers Home & Marine Ins. Co., 11th Dist. Lake No. 2019-L-167, 2021-Ohio-472- In this appeal, the Eleventh Appellate District affirmed in part and reversed in part the lower court’s...more
Insurance policies are legal documents. In the event of a dispute, their scope and meaning will be submitted to a court or arbitrator for interpretation. Most brokers are not attorneys. Most risk managers are not attorneys....more
Litigation concerning COVID-19 has already begun. A number of lawsuits have been filed against cruise lines alleging that they were negligent by operating with infected passengers and crew members and failing to screen...more
The California Supreme Court has struck a blow to insurers' attempts to contract out of more policyholder friendly jurisdictions, holding that the notice-prejudice rule is a fundamental public policy. Pitzer College v. Indian...more
In Pitzer College v. Indian Harbor Insurance Company, the California Supreme Court resolved two previously open questions in insurance law: (1) it concluded that the notice-prejudice rule is a fundamental public policy of...more
In answering two questions posed to it by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the California Supreme Court on August 29, 2019, addressed two significant issues: 1) whether California’s common law notice-prejudice rule is a...more
On February 12, 2019, U.S. District Court Judge Stephen V. Wilson dismissed a suit brought by Pacific Alliance Medical Center (PAMC) alleging, among other counts, breach of contract against its insurer for failure to cover...more
Property insurance policies typically require that, once an insured suffers a loss, the insured report the loss to the insurance carrier promptly. The purpose of such a provision is to allow an insurer to investigate a claim...more
Insurers frequently raise the timing of notice as a defense to a policyholder’s claim for coverage. This is an “all or nothing defense,” as “late notice” can create a forfeiture of coverage. As a result, it gets litigated...more
The recent decision in Cincinnati Insurance Co. v. Chapman, 2016 IL App (1st) 150919, illustrates how non-compliance with an insurance renewal statute potentially could bar an insurer from denying coverage. At issue in...more
Insurance law generally imposes on a policyholder the duty to give timely notice of claims to its insurance company. Sometimes, because of forgetfulness, ignorance, neglect, or a number of other reasons, companies fail to...more
On Monday, April 25, 2016, the Colorado Supreme Court issued its decision in Travelers Prop. Cas. Co. v. Stresscon Co., No. 13SC815 (Colo. Apr. 25, 2016), holding that an insurer does not need to show prejudice to enforce a...more