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[Webinar] Time-Limited, Policy Limits Demand: Critical Issues Facing Insurers When Settling Third-Party Liability Claims - July...

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Join Goldberg Segalla partners Brady Yntema and Jeff Matty for an interactive webinar discussing critical issues facing insurers when presented with a time-limited, policy-limits demand to settle third-party liability claims...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

New York Insurance Coverage Law Update - October 2023

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The insured, a jewelry business, filed a coverage action against Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London, which denied coverage to the insured under a policy purchased for the insured’s jewelry. The insured’s complaint...more

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New York High Court Finds Disgorgement Payment Insured "Loss" Rather Than Uninsurable "Penalty"

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Reversing the New York Appellate Division, First Department, the New York Court of Appeals, in a 6–1 landmark decision, held that a $140 million disgorgement payment is an insured "loss," after a long history of insurance...more

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Eleventh Circuit Says Invasion-of-Privacy Exclusion Bars Coverage of Class Action Settlement

Last week, the Eleventh Circuit held that an invasion-of-privacy exclusion in an insured’s policy barred coverage and that Liberty Insurance Underwriters Inc.  did not have to cover the $60.4 million settlement of  a class...more

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Can a Settlement Demand Above Policy Limits Fall within Limits? A Calif. Appellate Court Says Yes

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California law generally requires that an insurer reject a reasonable settlement demand within the policy limits before it can be liable for a bad faith failure to settle. See Samson v. Transamerica Ins. Co., 30 Cal.3d 220,...more

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Ninth Circuit: Excess Carrier Not Entitled to Challenge Payment Decisions of Underlying Carriers

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, applying California law, has held that an excess insurer could not second-guess the payment decisions of underlying insurers absent a showing of fraud or bad faith, or...more

Carlton Fields

Look No Further Than the Insuring Clause: Ill-Gotten Gains Do Not Constitute Covered “Loss”

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On August 26, 2019, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, applying Florida Law, held that ill-gotten gains do not constitute covered “loss” within the meaning of a D&O policy. In Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Co. v. Sabal...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

First Look - Spring 2019: Insurance Newsletter

It takes a nimble insurer to navigate around the landmines created by a consent judgment. This issue explores the challenges presented when a plaintiff and a defendant settle a claim, yet they agree that the plaintiff will...more

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SEC-ordered Disgorgement Is An Uninsurable “Penalty,” Not A Covered “Loss”

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A New York intermediate appellate court has ruled that a $140 million “disgorgement” payment ordered by the SEC in resolution of an investigation into securities laws violations was a “penalty” that was not covered by...more

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Third Circuit Slams The Door On Coverage For The Cost of Defending Excluded Claims—Then Leaves It Wide Open

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An insured corporation settles a class action, and a portion of the settlement pays the plaintiffs’ attorneys. Payments to the class are excluded from coverage under the terms of the corporation’s liability policy. But can...more

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