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
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
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 carrier’s insured containing allegations of bad...more
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
In Helguera v. Mid-Century Insurance Co., California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal held that an intentional acts exclusion in the liability coverage part of a homeowners insurance policy issued by Mid-Century Insurance...more
In National Fire & Marine Insurance Company v. Hampton, No. 19-17235 (9th Cir. Oct. 21, 2020), the Ninth Circuit held that a doctor’s guilty plea to the unlawful distribution of a controlled substance barred insurance...more
Applying Nevada law, the Ninth Circuit has held that a professional liability insurer did not have a duty to defend or indemnify a doctor for a wrongful death action because the doctor’s guilty plea triggered an exclusion for...more
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, applying New York law, has concluded that an insurer waived the right to assert a policy exclusion as a coverage defense in a declaratory judgment action after...more
In a significant and likely influential decision, the Delaware Supreme Court recently reversed a lower court decision and held that the insured's intent—not that of the victim—controls whether or not bodily injury is an...more