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Narrowing the Professional Services Exclusion: Policyholder Lessons “Arising Out of” Practice Fusion v. Freedom Specialty...

A recent decision by a California appellate court in Practice Fusion, Inc. v. Freedom Specialty Insurance Company, denying the policyholder more than $118 million in Directors & Officers liability coverage based on an...more

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Louisiana Court Finds That an Insured Breached its Duty to Cooperate

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The recent decision of Marcantel v. State Farm Fire, No. 2:22-CV-01511, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 111077 (W.D. La. June 24, 2024) offers valuable lessons for policyholders regarding the importance of cooperation in the insurance...more

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New Legislation Takes Aim at Fixing Louisiana’s “Insurance Crisis”

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Affordability and availability of homeowners insurance in Louisiana was top of mind for lawmakers in the 2024 regular legislative session, and several bills have crossed the finish line, recently signed into law by Gov. Jeff...more

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New York Insurance Coverage Law Update - January 2024

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Second Circuit Holds That Malpractice Insurer Has No Duty to Defend or to Indemnify Lawyer Because Of Business Enterprise Exclusion- Associated Industries Insurance Company sued its insureds, a lawyer, and his former law...more

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Operation Litigation: Top Tips if Your Business is Threatened with a Lawsuit

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We continue to provide legal resources for our military veterans returning to the workplace in our monthly “Vets to Ventures” series. Previously, we have discussed how skills acquired in the military translate into becoming a...more

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Tendered a Notice of Claim to Your Insurer? Don't Forget to Tender the Lawsuit, Too

When it comes to insurance contracts, the devil is often in the details, as a recent Oregon Court of Appeals case illustrated. In The Final Table, LLC v. Acceptance Casualty Insurance Co., an individual was seriously injured...more

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Say What You Mean: Delaware Court Finds Bump-Up Exclusion Ambiguous as Applied to Mergers Versus Acquisitions

Long a feature of directors’ and officers’ (D&O) liability insurance policies, the so-called “Bump-Up” Exclusion has gotten significant attention over the last few years. Because of the recent escalation in securities...more

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Insurers Owe Coverage for Settlement Despite Bump-Up Provision

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Applying Delaware law, the Superior Court of the State of Delaware has held that a bump up provision did not bar coverage of a settlement that resolved claims asserting breaches of fiduciary duty. On December 4, 2019, the...more

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Ask Not for Whom the Blue Bell Tolls

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Fifth Circuit Ruling Against Blue Bell’s Corporate Directors and Officers May Limit Availability of Insurance Coverage in Shareholder Derivative Actions - In a recent ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the...more

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Insurance Update - August 2023

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Mental state, in some form, is the common theme running through our first three cases this month. The Fifth Circuit decides whether directors and officers of an ice cream company, accused of breaching their fiduciary...more

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The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - August 2023

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This month’s Friday Five addresses two cases involving disability claims that touch on Covid-19, a Circuit Court ruling for an insurer, a district court ruling that a 20-year-old regulatory settlement precluded an insurer...more

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U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Whether State’s Public Policy Interest Could Sink Insurance Policy’s Choice-of-Law Provision

The rare insurance dispute has appeared on the horizon for the nation’s highest court. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari and agreed to take up the case of Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty...more

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Insurance Update - January 24, 2023

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It was a busy end to the year, as courts handed down several key insurance decisions before ringing in 2023. The Ohio Supreme Court considered the contours of “direct physical loss or damage” in two separate decisions –...more

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Settlement of Merger Objection Litigation is Not Covered “Loss”

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In a win for Wiley’s client, a California trial court has determined that a pharmaceutical company’s D&O policies did not cover its settlement of shareholder litigation alleging that the price another company paid to acquire...more

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The Title Reporter — Winter 2023

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Here is what we cover in this issue of The Title Reporter: A Legal Update for the Title Insurance Industry •A federal district court in New York granted summary judgment in favor of a title insurance company and its...more

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Insurer Entitled to Rescind Policy for Insured’s Concealment of Lawsuit Filed Prior to Policy Period

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The United States District Court for the Central District of California, applying California law, has held that an insurer may rescind a policy issued to a law firm where the firm failed to disclose, when applying for...more

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‘Wrongful Acts’ Includes Both Negligent and Intentional Acts

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The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, applying Illinois law, has held that an insurer had a duty to defend an insured condominium association and its board members against an underlying...more

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Lawsuit Deemed Related to Notice of Circumstances Submitted During Prior Claims-Made Policy Period Under Florida’s “Sufficient...

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The United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, applying Florida law, has held that an investor’s lawsuit against an attorney related back to a notice of a potential claim submitted during the earlier...more

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Warranty Letter Bars Coverage for Claim Against Chief Legal Officer Arising From CEO’s Alleged Fraud

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The United States District Court for the District of Nevada, applying Nevada law, has held that a warranty letter executed by the insured’s CEO prior to the issuance of an excess D&O policy barred coverage for a claim made...more

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Insurer’s Declaratory Judgment Complaint Plausibly Alleges Violation of Cooperation Clause at Motion to Dismiss Phase

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The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, applying Illinois law, has held that an insurer’s complaint plausibly alleged that the insured had breached the terms of the policy’s cooperation clause....more

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Superior Court CCLD Determines D&O Insurance Policy Does not Cover Defense Costs in Statutory Appraisal Proceeding

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MPM Holdings, Inc. v. Federal Ins. Co., C.A. No. N20C-07-014 MMJ CCLD (Del. Super. Ct. Mar. 17, 2022) - In recent years, the Delaware Supreme Court has pointed out that directors and officers liability insurance might not...more

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Defense Costs Presumed Reasonable if Insurer Breaches Duty to Defend

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has held that, under Indiana law, when a liability insurer breaches its duty to defend, the defense costs that the insured incurs in the underlying matter are...more

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The Friday Five: Five Current ERISA Litigation Highlights - August 2022

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This month’s Friday Five addresses cases considering: (1) whether monetary relief in the amount of lost benefits is an available remedy for breach of fiduciary duty; (2) the validity of an ex-spouse’s beneficiary designation...more

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Missouri Takes A Stand On Depreciation

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On June 28, the Missouri Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s decision finding Lexington Insurance Company (“Lexington”) breached its policy with homeowner Cynthia Franklin. Franklin’s home has sustained damage in a May...more

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Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending April 16, 2022

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Real Property Update - Statute of Limitations / Deed / Reverter: City’s argument that grantor’s lawsuit, alleging that grantor’s deed to city terminated and reverted to grantor, was barred by section 95.36(1) because deed...more

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