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Liability Insurance Negligence Duty to Defend

Rivkin Radler LLP

July 2025 New York Insurance Coverage Law Update

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A pedestrian tripped and fell on a public sidewalk in front of a multi-unit premises owned by 1995-2003 Jerome Avenue. The injured claimant filed a bodily injury action against Jerome Avenue and Pawnit Jerome Corp., a lessee...more

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Opioid Case May Guide Climate Change Insurance Suits

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The rising tide of climate change lawsuits is sure to bring with it a wave of declaratory judgment actions on the issue of whether liability insurers have an obligation to defend fossil fuel producers and other climate change...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

Does Tilted Turtle's Slow Payment and Carapace Response Entitle Insurer to Liability Policy Rescission?

A California federal court has ruled that an insured's misrepresentation in a Statement of No Loss in support of reinstatement of its liability insurance policy provided the basis to rescind the policy reinstatement, but not...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

Appellate Court Rules Insurers Have Duty to Defend Illinois Biometric Privacy Claim

An Illinois state appellate court recently ruled that a customer's biometric privacy class action claims against an insured tanning salon potentially fell within two insurer's personal injury coverage. See, West Bend Mutual...more

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP

Allocating Responsibility for Defense and Indemnity Costs Among Multiple Insurers

Analysis of Zurich Am. Ins. Co. v. S.-Owners Ins. Co., 248 F. Supp. 3d 1268, 1276 (M.D. Fla. 2017) - In a dispute between two insurers arising from an underlying premises liability action, a federal district court applied...more

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Despite No Allegations of Bad Faith or Tortious Conduct, Liberty Mutual Owes Millions for Breaching the Duty to Defend

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In Hyland v. Liberty Mutual Fire Ins. Co., No. 1:15-cv-01264-JES-JEH, 2017 WL 3388161 (C.D. Ill. Aug. 7, 2017), the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois granted plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment for...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Will your errors and omissions policy pay your defense costs?

The hypothetical - HealthPayPlus (HPP) designs custom record management systems for large hospital systems. HPP developed a system for Research Hospitals of America (RHA) that HPP promised would revolutionize RHA’s...more

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