Late Notices

Reinsurance Redux - May 2013

by Braden A. Borger, Amy S. Kline, Patrick Nugent, Sean T. O'Neill, Brian Simons, Matthew Smith | Saul Ewing LLP on 5/24/2013

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

Reinsurance Redux - April 2013

by Braden A. Borger, Amy S. Kline, Patrick Nugent, Sean T. O'Neill, Brian Simons, Matthew Smith | Saul Ewing LLP on 4/24/2013

In This Issue: - Assignment of Right to Collect on Reinsurance Treaty Held Not to Include Underlying Arbitration Clause: On February 25, 2013, the United States District Court for the Northern District of...more

Substance Over Form: Insurance Notice Requirements Are Met When An Insurer Has Notice From Any Source

by Meredith Hiller, Richard Shore | Gilbert LLP on 3/22/2013

Insurers frequently attempt to avoid their coverage obligations by contending that their insureds provided late notice of claims or occurrences....more

Patton Boggs Reinsurance Newsletter - March 2013: A Brief Review of Reinsurance Trends in 2012: Late Notice

by Patton Boggs LLP on 3/19/2013

Although late notice cases are infrequent, 2012 featured some notable decisions, highlighting the implications of choice-of-law and state-law differences on the requirement of a show of prejudice. For instance, in Pacific...more

Court Gives Insured Roofer the Bird – Late Notice is Sufficient to Deny a Claim

by Todd McCormick | Sedgwick LLP on 1/30/2013

In Atlantic Casualty Insurance Company v. Value Waterproofing, Inc., 2013 WL 152854 (S.D.N.Y., 2013), the Southern District Court of New York held that a commercial general liability insurer had no duty to defend or indemnify...more

Policy Observer - January 2013

by Nancy Harris, Alex Lathrop | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 1/25/2013

It has been nearly three months since Superstorm Sandy battered the East Coast of the United States. With several hundred thousand residents still without homes and many businesses still operating out of temporary facilities,...more

Patton Boggs' Reinsurance Newsletter - December 2012: Third Circuit Relieves Reinsurer of Indemnity Obligations Due to Late Notice...

by Patton Boggs LLP on 12/10/2012

Pacific Employers Ins. Co. v. Global Reinsurance Corp. of Am., 693 F.3d 417 (3d Cir. 2012). Reversing a lower court decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that a reinsurer had no...more

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