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Goldberg Segalla

Navigating the Time-Limited Policy Limits Demand: Best Practices for Insurers and Defense Counsel

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In the evolving landscape of insurance litigation, the time-limited, policy limits demand has emerged as a high-stakes challenge for insurers, defense counsel, and claims professionals alike. These demands – often issued...more

Vedder Price

UK Court Judgment Highlights Febrile Geopolitical Climate for Aviation

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A recent UK High Court judgment has delivered a landmark decision for the aviation and insurance sectors as it ruled in favour of Western lessors seeking multi-billion dollar insurance payouts for aircraft stranded in Russia....more

Tyson & Mendes LLP

Navigating The Claims Seas: What Insurance Defense Attorneys Wish Claims Professionals Knew

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In the vast ocean of insurance claims, navigating the turbulent waters can be challenging for both claims professionals and insurance defense attorneys. To ensure smooth sailing, it is crucial for claims professionals to...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Guide to Private Company D&O Insurance, 2025

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Most private companies operate for years without ever facing a directors & officers (D&O) insurance claim. That’s why the risks can be easy to overlook. But D&O litigation isn’t just about major scandals or headline-making...more

Pillsbury - Policyholder Pulse blog

When Politics Disrupt the Flow: What Policyholders Need to Know About Supply Chain and Political Risk Coverage

In today’s volatile global economy, companies are learning the hard way that political shocks—whether through trade sanctions, military conflict or abrupt regulatory change—can wreak havoc on supply chains. And worse, many...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Risky Business: What Lawyers Who Fight Insurance Companies Want You to Know About Your Business Insurance Portfolio

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We are attorneys and don’t sell or broker insurance. Yet, we’re writing to alert business owners of a direct threat posed by a “set it and forget it” approach to insurance coverage. Why? Because we see firsthand the damage...more

Snell & Wilmer

Insurance Claims and the LA Fires

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Insurance has always been a critical backdrop in risk analysis. This is because when buying insurance, “an insured usually does not seek to realize a commercial advantage but, instead, seeks protection and security from...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Strategic Risk Mitigation for Insurance Providers Amidst PFAS-Related Environmental Liability

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The increasing volume of litigation involving Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) presents substantial financial and operational uncertainties for the insurance sector. Due to their environmental persistence and...more

McGinnis Lochridge

Insurance Producer Exposure When Procuring Cover for Sophisticated Clients

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Generally speaking, insurance producers face fairly routine obligations when procuring cover. Every state imposes a general duty to exercise that degree of care, skill and diligence a reasonable producer would exhibit to his...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

The Ultimate Social Inflation Survival Guide

Insurance professionals, risk managers, and counsel deal with it on a daily basis, plaintiffs' personal injury lawyers are driving and benefiting from it, consumers and policyholders are paying for it, litigation funders are...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 16th Annual Advanced Forum on Managed Care Disputes and Litigation - May 1st - 2nd, Chicago, IL

Join the industry’s top litigators and leading plan counsel at ACI’s 16th Annual Advanced Forum on Managed Care Disputes and Litigation, for two days of discussions designed to address emerging areas of concern for MCOs in...more

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Further Clarity Regarding Coverage for Funds Transfer Fraud

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At this point, your IT department has almost certainly warned you to approach your e-mail inbox with skepticism--for good reason. Cybercriminals regularly and effectively impersonate our legitimate contacts for illegitimate...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Effective Risk Management for Nursing Facilities: Insurance Insights on Retaliation Claims

This is the first in a series of articles addressing critical issues in risk management and insurance for skilled nursing facilities. Owners and operators of skilled nursing facilities know that a claim or lawsuit against...more

K&L Gates LLP

Litigation Minute: Emerging Contaminants: Minimizing and Insuring Litigation Risk

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What You Need to Know in a Minute or Less - As the scientific and regulatory landscape surrounding various emerging contaminants shifts, so too do the options that companies can consider taking to minimize and insure against...more

Akerman LLP

Georgia Federal Court Applies “Fungi or Bacteria” Exclusion and Holds Insurer Owed No Duty to Defend Mold Exposure Wrongful Death...

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In Nationwide Property & Casualty Insurance Company v. Hampton Court, L.P., et al. the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granted an insurer's motion for judgment on the pleadings that it owed...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

March 2025 New York Insurance Coverage Law Update

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The owners of a warehouse leased it to a commercial tenant to operate a photography studio. The lease required the tenant to procure insurance for the owners and to indemnify them for the negligent acts of the tenant’s...more

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The LA Fires Contingent Business Interruption Coverage Considerations

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The Los Angeles area fires that started in early January have destroyed thousands of homes and businesses throughout the region. The fires triggered ongoing evacuation orders and warnings as communities coped with dangerous...more

Cozen O'Connor

Lack of Insurable Interest Precludes Recovery for Property Damage

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In Ram Krishana Inc. d/b/a Motel 6 Sulphur v. Mt. Hawley Insurance Co. (2025 WL 371016) (S.D.N.Y. 2025)), the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York determined that the plaintiff lacked an...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Court Holds that Contract Exclusion in EPL Policy Does Not Preclude Duty to Defend When Some Allegations Extend Beyond Employment...

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Applying Indiana state law, the Indiana Court of Appeals has held that a breach of contract exclusion did not preclude a duty to defend under an employment practices liability policy because some of the underlying allegations...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Q4 2024 Commercial Insurance Update: A Buyer’s Market Except For Casualty

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The commercial insurance market remains a buyers’ market across all sectors except for casualty. Within the casualty market, workers' compensation stands out as the only bright spot, with rates continuing to decline. In...more

Miles Mediation & Arbitration

Trying To Reason with Hurricane Season: Mediating First Party Property Insurance Claims

Lured by the dream of living in a sun-drenched paradise, with a lower cost of living, and in the case of Florida, no state income tax, hundreds of thousands of Americans have migrated to Florida and the Gulf South over the...more

Pillsbury - Policyholder Pulse blog

Three-Dimensional Chess: Harmonizing Dispute Resolution Clauses in Commercial Insurance Programs

Considering the complex structure of commercial insurance programs—typically purchased in annual “towers” of insurance—risk managers and in-house counsel often do not pay sufficient attention to arbitration-related...more

Marshall Dennehey

Adequate Notice Requires More Than Delivery of a Policy

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A December 31, 2024, decision from the Supreme Court of Idaho found that adequate notice to an insured required more than the delivery of a policy and, due to the insurer’s failure to do so, coverage under a pre-existing...more

Alston & Bird

Insurance Insights for the Cold, Dark Winter Nights

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Welcome to the latest issue of Insurance Insights, a gathering of notable legal developments and trends relevant to the insurance industry. In this issue, fires alter the landscape of California insurance, an expert’s...more

Miller Nash LLP

The Northwest Policyholder | When the Application is the Risk: Application-Based Insurance Policy Rescission

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Surprised insurers are unhappy insurers. And unhappy insurers are more likely to resist paying claims. As are insurers who fail to heed their good faith and other obligations to their policyholders. So if you seek coverage...more

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