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Insurance coverage lawyers are sometimes called upon to serve as expert witnesses on the standards of practice applicable to coverage attorneys engaged by insurers to provide coverage advice. ...more
In This Issue: - District of New Jersey Stays Medical Malpractice Suit Pending Arbitration: Finding that a dispute between a medical malpractice insurer and a reinsurance underwriter fell squarely within the...more
Earlier this month, the 7th Circuit affirmed a district court order that held an insurer properly denied coverage to the insured law firm based on its failure to comply with the reporting requirements under its claims-made...more
In This Issue: - AC33703 - Sigular v. Gilson - AC33557 - Filippelli v. Saint Mary’s Hospital - AC34524 - Capel v. Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp. - AC34221 - Nichols v. The Milford Pediatric...more
In a case of first impression, the Illinois Appellate Court considered whether a professional liability insurer can deny a defense to its insured, an attorney who admits he erred in providing legal services. Ill. State Bar...more
In its recent decision in Sharp Realty & Mgmt. v. Capitol Specialty Ins. Corp., 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 243 (11th Cir. Jan. 4, 2013), the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, applying Alabama law, considered...more
Earlier this year, the Quebec Court of Appeal rendered two decisions addressing the issue of gross negligence coverage in insurance law. These decisions offer two contradictory conclusions as to the validity of exclusion...more
In Coats Rose Yale Ryman & Lee PC v. Navigators Specialty Insurance Co., 2012 WL 4858194 (5th Cir. October 15, 2012), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a lower court’s grant of summary judgment to...more
On October 15, 2012, the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit – applying Texas law – addressed another Cumis counsel matter. See Coats, Rose, Yale, Ryman & Lee, P.C. v. Navigators Specialty Ins. Co., No....more
In Conley v. First Nat’l Ins. Co. of Am., 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 20281 (9th Cir., Sept. 27, 2012), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit considered whether a lawsuit alleging “anxiety” qualified as “bodily injury” for...more
In this medical malpractice action, defendant-respondent hospital, skillfully represented by Aryeh Klonsky and Esther Widowski of Widowski Law Group LLP, moved for summary judgment to dismiss the patient plaintiff's case. ...more
In its recent decision in Great American Insurance Co. v. Christy, 2012 N.H. LEXIS 126 (N.H. Sept. 28, 2012), the Supreme Court of New Hampshire had occasion to consider whether an “innocent insured” provision in a legal...more
In its recent decision in A.P. Pino & Associates, Inc. v. Utica Mutual Ins. Co., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 92472 (E.D.Pa. July 3, 2012), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania had occasion to...more
In its recent decision in Schwartz Manes Ruby & Slovin, L.P.A. v. Monitor Liability Managers, LLC, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 12236 (6th Cir. June 15, 2012), the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, applying Ohio...more
On May 21, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled that a malpractice settlement paid to the family of a deceased Medicare beneficiary did not constitute a “primary plan” for purposes of the...more
Short Essay describing the application of the concept of 'proportionality' in the English Legal Costs System. The essay outlines the areas where the concept has reduced legal costs, and where it has not....more
In Sandman v. Quincy Mut. Fire Ins. Co., 2012 WL 181761 (Mass. App. Ct. Jan. 25, 2012), the Appeals Court of Massachusetts affirmed the trial court's grant of Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance Co.'s motion to dismiss for failure...more
Esther Widowski and Aryeh Klonsky of Widowski Law Group LLP successfully argued that defendant established its entitlement to summary judgment by showing that the treatment provided to plaintiff comported with good and...more
In a U.S. District Court action brought against Allstate and one of its insurance agents alleging the negligent underinsurance of a residence destroyed by fire, Allstate filed a Rule 12(b)(6) motion seeking the dismissal of...more
PacifiCare of California, et al. v. Bright Medical Associates, Inc. Court of Appeals, Fourth District (September 2, 2011) Code of Civil Procedure Section 877.6 provides that one defendant who is a "joint tortfeasor" may...more
A brief overview of the new medical malpractice laws in North Carolina going into effect on October 1, 2011....more
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Perception is Reality for legal teams. Capitalizing on a diverse legal team is important in the Twenty-first century. ...more
Pre-trial dismissal of medical malpractice actions via motion practice provides significant cost savings to the client. Mr. Klonsky obtained an award of summary judgment dismissing all claims against a major metropolitan...more
Funk & Bolton's Coverage & Defense Practice Group provides advice and counsel to insurers in coverage and extra-contractual matters, product development and claim compliance, and defends claims and litigation matters....more
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