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Robins Kaplan LLP

Don’t Shoot The Messenger

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Examining the Applicability of Liability Policy Exclusions to Shooting Incident-Related Claims - Shootings, both on an individual and large-scale level, have become a growing reality in the United States in recent years. In...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Button Battery Dangers — Harming 3,500-Plus Annually

Christmas never will be the same for Texas woman Trista Hamsmith. One week before the most wonderful time of the year – Dec. 17, 2020 – Hamsmith’s 18-month-old daughter died a terrible death. Reese, a blond, rosy-cheeked...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

NTSB Reports First Responders at Risk in Electric Vehicle (EV) Battery Fires

Imagine a situation in which a team of firefighters responding to a vehicle fire cannot extinguish the flames. Gallon after gallon of water does not douse them. Pile after pile of foam fails to finish them off. The car keeps...more

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP

Assault And Battery Exclusion In Florida - Dead Or Alive?

A lawsuit filed by Danielle Roland against Klub Kutter’s Bar & Lounge alleged that on September 6, 2015, Roland was a “business invitee” at Klub Kutter’s in Fort Lauderdale, Florida....more

Maynard Nexsen

Another Assault – Another Exclusion

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2017 is steadily becoming the year of the assault in South Carolina. Founders Insurance Company v. John Hamilton a/k/a Jim Hamilton, individually and d/b/a Aces High Club, Aces High Club and Kenneth Weatherford, 2017 WL...more

Maynard Nexsen

When an Assault Really Is an Assault... A Sequel

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Jesse Bass was a guest at Henry’s Sports Bar in December 2012, when the bouncer struck him in the head with such force that he was knocked unconscious and suffered serious brain injury. Bass brought an action against Henry’s,...more

Cozen O'Connor

IN Indiana, Insurer Calls Out Policyholder Bad Faith and Prevails

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In a recent opinion, Carpenter v. Lovell’s Lounge and Grill, LLC, et al., --- N.E.3d ---, No.33A01-1602-CT-265, 2016 WL 4701673 (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 8, 2016), the Indiana Court of Appeals addressed — for the first time under...more

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