D&O Insurance Myths (Part 1)
What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Is It Time to Find a New Supplier?
What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Candid Conversations with Suppliers in Distress
What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Identifying Suppliers in Distress
The Calm Before the Storm: Planning for Catastrophic Weather Events
Out With a Bang: Current State of Play on Coverage for COVID-Related Losses
Regulating the Internet of Things
The Intersection of Insurance and Bankruptcy – Part 2
On-Demand Webinar | Impacts of COVID-19 on Litigation Economic Damages
On-Demand Webinar | Insurance Issues Faced by Employers in Times of COVID-19
COVID-19 in the Workplace - PPP Update, COVID Plans from the Biden Transition Team, Higher Education Relief Package Provision, COVID WARN Act Developments
How an Am Law 200 Firm is Working Towards Solutions to 2020’s Challenges with Jeremy Sacks: On Record PR
Second-Wave Contingency Planning and Risk Mitigation Strategies - Diagnosing Health Care Podcast
COVID-19 Business Interruption Insurance Claims: A Practical Perspective
WEBINAR: COVID-19 Insurance Coverage Class Actions
Compliance Perspectives: Compliance During a Business Interruption
Butler's Thursday Tips #3 | Handling Business Loss Claims
AF COVID-19 Podcast: Business Interruption Coverage, Do You Have a Claim?
Lifting the Fog Over Lobbying Compliance - updated with impact of COVID-19 on NYS lobbying community
Litigation and COVID-19: How to Protect Your Business in This Time of Crisis
In 2023, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) released its highly anticipated decision in Workman Optometry Professional Corporation v Certas Home and Auto Insurance Company (Workman). The Court’s decision,...more
In a recent New York Court of Appeals opinion, the court found that business losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic were not covered under an “all-risk” commercial property insurance policy. In Consolidated Rest. Operations,...more
Most pandemic-related businesses interruption insurance claims failed because policyholders could not show a direct physical loss. But some California courts issued conflicting decisions. The California Supreme Court has now...more
The insured, Consolidated Restaurant Operations, a company that owns and operates dozens of restaurants, obtained a commercial property policy from Westport Insurance Company. Subject to certain exclusions, the policy covered...more
On February 15, 2024, the New York Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the Appellate Division, First Department decision affirming dismissal of restaurant operator Consolidated Restaurant Operations, Inc.’s (CRO) complaint...more
The English Court has, for the first time, considered the meaning of a “catastrophe”, as well as how Hours Clauses work in the context of non-damage business interruption losses claimed under two Property Catastrophe Excess...more
In a unanimous opinion issued yesterday, the New Jersey Supreme Court joined the majority of other courts to hold that business interruption losses related to the COVID-19 pandemic are not covered under the standard language...more
On January 10, the New York Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on a COVID-19 coverage appeal by a restaurant operator, Consolidated Restaurant Operations, Inc. (CRO), which posed issues of first impression. Courts...more
The outlook for the commercial lines insurance market remains largely unchanged since the first quarter, with the supply of capital driving pricing behavior in all segments. For the directors and officers (D&O) market,...more
This week, the Court considers insurance coverage for business losses sustained as a result of COVID-19 and the constitutionality of Guam’s in-person informed consent requirement for abortion. THE OREGON CLINIC, PC V....more
It is true that death and taxes are certainties of this life, but so too is the fact that neither the risks that businesses face nor the businesses themselves are static. Both are dynamic and evolve over time. As the risks...more
On June 26, 2023, a panel of judges for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed an insurance company’s win over a restaurant group seeking insurance coverage for pandemic-related claims in Team 44...more
In a win for Wiley’s client, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, applying Louisiana law, affirmed the grant of an insurer’s motion to dismiss with prejudice. Hotel Mgmt. of New Orleans, LLC v. General...more
All eyes are on the New Jersey Supreme Court as we await oral arguments on the latest business interruption coverage dispute. In the lawsuit, an Atlantic City casino, Ocean Walk, seeks reimbursement for costs incurred during...more
Commercial lines insurance buyers encountered mostly positive trends at the end of 2022. Most segments experienced rate stabilization and, in the case of public D&O, large rate decreases. The exception to this generally...more
Does the business harm caused by COVID-19 qualify as “direct physical loss” for insurance purposes? In Spirit Airlines, Inc. v. American Home Assurance Company, Index No. 655755/2021, Commercial Division Justice Robert R....more
In Protégé Rest. Partners LLC v. Sentinel Ins. Co., No. 21-16814 (9th Cir. 2022), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, rejected another business interruption claim related to the pandemic. The Court affirmed the dismissal of a...more
Here are some of the leading insurance cases from the past month. The Sixth Circuit is the latest appellate court to address whether insurers must defend drug companies in local government opioid suits. Joining the Ohio...more
Perhaps since the very first executive order came out ordering businesses to close amid the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, attorneys have been holding their breath, waiting to see how Covid-19 would play out in terms...more
As we have previously written, whether economic losses caused by COVID shutdowns can be recovered under commercial property insurance policies is a hotly-contested issue. (Past articles include, ‘Will Your Business...more
A victory was obtained in the case of Melcorp, Inc. v. West American Ins. Co., No. 21-2448 (7th Cir. June 8, 2022). The Seventh Circuit affirmed yet another trial court decision in favor of an insurer on a Covid-19 business...more
You’ll find some notable decisions in our May Insurance Update. Appeals over pandemic-related business interruption losses have made their way up to state high courts. And so far, these courts have continued the trend...more
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses across the country filed claims for business interruption coverage with their insurance carriers, most, if not all of which, were denied. Indeed, by the end of June 2021,...more
As we approach the end of the first quarter of 2022, things are still looking good for insurers in the COVID-19 coverage litigation battle. The issuance of various governmental orders requiring businesses to temporarily...more
On March 16, 2022, the Ninth Circuit joined other appellate courts in finding that restaurants were not entitled to insurance coverage for losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns. A panel of judges issued an unpublished...more