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Itâs said that an ant can carry fifty times its own weight. Thatâs nothing. A recent decision out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit provides a compelling reminder to policyholders and their counsel: Even the...more
In Luke, Inc. v. Berkley National Insurance Company, 2025 WL 2210783 (W.D. Tenn. 2025), the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee determined that the âcompletionâ of a construction project for...more
In the home health care business? Whether a franchisor, franchisee, or independent agency, beware of bodily injury exclusions in professional liability policies that could eliminate coverage for otherwise covered claims....more
In a win for Wileyâs client, a Florida federal court held that a professional services exclusion barred coverage for underlying litigation arising out of the insuredâs faulty DNA analysis services. A DNA laboratory provided...more
In Carr v. Spinnaker Insurance Company, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the district courtâs finding that property damage resulting from objectionable and imperfect work performed by an...more
We cover a broad range of topics in this monthâs insurance update. The Supreme Court of Vermont considers how to measure a boatâs capacity under a watercraft exclusion. The Sixth Circuit decides whether an equipment...more
The Indiana Court of Appeals, applying Indiana law, affirmed a trial court decision finding coverage for attorneysâ fees related to defending the second of two Taiwanese class actions relating to the same underlying toxic...more
On July 9, 2025, in Hammond Power Solutions Inc. v. National Union Fire Insurance Co., the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district courtâs decision granting summary judgment to the insurer and finding, under...more
The Northern District of Texas recently issued a pivotal decision for long-tail injury cases. It clarified that under Texas law, excess liability coverage for long-tail injury claims can center on an exposure trigger theory....more
In Dostart v. Columbia Insurance Group, the Iowa Supreme Court reaffirmed the rule â in Iowa, and many other jurisdictions â that faulty workmanship by a contractor does not constitute an âoccurrenceâ as defined in a standard...more
The Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit, has held that a bodily injury exclusion in a carrierâs errors and omissions policies barred coverage for a third-party claim by another carrier and a third-party demand by an...more
In Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Naze, No. 4D2024-0098 (Fla. 4th DCA June 4, 2025), the Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed a jury verdict in favor of the insured, holding that the trial court improperly...more
In a 230-page judgment handed down by Mr Justice Christopher Butcher in the English High Court on June 11, 2025, six aircraft leasing companies secured âone of the largest sums ever awarded by the English courtsâ (according...more
The United States District Court for the Southern District of California, applying California law, has held that an exception within an insured vs. insured (I v. I) exclusion of a D&O policy restored coverage for a suit...more
In Universal Prop & Cas. Ins. Co. v. West Naze, No. 4D2024-0098 (Fla. 4th DCA Jun. 4, 2025), the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal reaffirmed that an insured cannot introduce evidence of claim handling in a breach of...more
In Columbia Casualty Co. v. State Auto Mutual Insurance Co., the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded, under Ohio law, that a demand letter to a general liability insurance carrierâs insured containing allegations of bad...more
Michael Cannata and Frank Misiti wrote, âThereâs Coverage for That? The âIns and Outsâ of Personal and Advertising Injury Coverageâ for the Summer 2025 issue of USLAW Magazine. The story explains âpersonal and advertisingâ...more
The hallmark of a claims-made liability policy is coverage exclusively for claims âfirst madeâ during the policy period, thus limiting the insurerâs risk to new claims asserted against the policyholder during a finite time...more
Weâve selected five recent insurance decisions for this monthâs update. Foreign insurers will be pleased with the Second Circuitâs revamped view of the New York Convention. In finding that the international treaty is...more
During the underwriting process, carriers should review affirmative coverages not only to ensure consistency with applicable exclusions but also to make sure that the coverages themselves are internally consistent. Failure to...more
In Hespen v. Erie Insurance Company, Levy Insurance Company, LLC and Thomas Levy, 332 A.3d 1229 (Pa. Super. 2024), the Pennsylvania Superior Court rejected the appellantsâ assertion of the applicability of the doctrine of...more
The United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, applying New Mexico law, has held that a prior acts exclusion in a directors and officers policy barred coverage for an investor lawsuit alleging a scheme to...more
In A Priori Family Office LLC v. Valley Forge Insurance Co., the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut found the undefined term âsurface waterâ in an all-risk insurance policyâs water exclusion ambiguous, so...more
The Delaware Superior Court has held that an underlying shareholder lawsuit and prior litigation alleging certain common facts did not arise out of Interrelated Wrongful Acts, and did not trigger either the Prior Notice or...more
A federal district court, applying New York law, has held that a âvoluntary payments provisionâ precluded coverage for an insuredâs post-tender costs to remediate its engineering errors because the insured admitted and...more