Best Practices for Negotiating Manuscript Exclusions
D&O Insurance Myths (Part 2)
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 388: Listen and Learn – Policy Exclusions (Evidence)
London’s Nation-State Attack Exclusion: Game Changer For The Cyber Insurance Market or An Opportunity For Competition Within the Market?
Long-Term Effects of Russia/Ukraine on Insurance
Cyberside Chats: There is a war in Europe. What does that mean for your cyber insurance policy?
Out With a Bang: Current State of Play on Coverage for COVID-Related Losses
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NGE On Demand: Insurance and Indemnity Issues for Family Offices with Angela Elbert
Ledgers and Law: Roadblocks Facing the Cannabis Industry
K&L Gates Triage: Emergency Preparedness and Response in Long Term Care - Part II
Prior & Pending Litigation
In Carr v. Spinnaker Insurance Company, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the district court’s finding that property damage resulting from objectionable and imperfect work performed by an...more
Utica National Assurance Company issued a liability policy to Bond Painting Company. Bond’s employee was injured working at a construction project at premises leased by Amazon.com Services Inc. and filed a bodily injury...more
On April 3, 2025, a Texas state appeals court reversed a trial court order awarding Exxon Mobil $25 million under an umbrella insurance policy issued by Lexington Insurance Co. to Brock Services Ltd. The appeals court found...more
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
An owner, general contractor (GC) and subcontractor (Sub) were sued by injured workers at a construction site, and they were defended by the Sub’s insurer, U.S. Specialty Insurance Company. U.S. Specialty tendered their...more
There’s been plenty of litigation over whether construction defect claims qualify for coverage under a CGL policy. This month, we discuss two federal circuit court rulings (First and Seventh Circuits) that reach opposite...more
The insured admittedly punched and threw the claimant to the ground, but the insured maintained during her plea for reckless assault in criminal court that the claimant was the aggressor, she acted in self-defense, and that...more
Like most states, Florida follows the rule that an insurer’s duty to defend is separate from and broader than its duty to indemnify for a potentially covered occurrence. Last week, in South Winds Construction Corp. v....more
Massachusetts Appeals Court Gets It Right – Mostly - Hot on the heels of the Federal Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in MTI, Inc. v. Employers Insurance Company of Wausau, __ F.3d __, 2019 WL 321423 (10th Cir....more
The interpretation of a property insurance policy may seem like a dull endeavor, but courts sometimes face fundamental questions about what words mean, or how we conceptualize cause and effect. In Taja Investments LLC v....more