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Rivkin Radler LLP

July 2025 Insurance Update

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We cover a broad range of topics in this month’s insurance update. The Supreme Court of Vermont considers how to measure a boat’s capacity under a watercraft exclusion. The Sixth Circuit decides whether an equipment...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

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

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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

White and Williams LLP

The Complex Insurance Coverage Reporter – July 2023

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Third Circuit questions, but declines to decide, whether Pennsylvania’s “four corners” rule permits an insurer under a claims-made professional liability insurance policy to terminate its defense of the insured based on...more

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Insurance Update - June 2023

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Courts took up some interesting insurance questions this past month. Here’s some we address in our June Insurance Update. When a government sponsored cyberattack infects computers worldwide, does the war exclusion apply? ...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Sexual Misconduct Sublimit Applies to Negligence Claims Against Employer Where Claims Would Not Exist “But For” Employee’s Sexual...

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The Eastern District of Pennsylvania, applying Pennsylvania law, has held that a healthcare professional liability policy’s sexual abuse/misconduct sublimit applied to claims of negligent hiring and supervision against the...more

Kerr Russell

Understanding Your Professional Liability Insurance Policy

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Professional liability insurance is important to physicians for various reasons. Its primary purpose is to fund the costs to defend claims alleging professional negligence and to fund the payment of any loss determined by...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Too Soon! First Circuit Finds No Duty To Defend Before Suit Is Filed

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Can something short of the filing of a complaint trigger an insurer’s duty to defend? It’s not an idle question. Uncertainty on this issue could produce an unintended breach, and, in some jurisdictions, breach of the duty to...more

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