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Mississippi Federal District Court Requires Insurer to Establish Prejudice to Deny Coverage Based on Untimely Notice

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The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, applying Mississippi law, has held that noncompliance with a 30-day notice provision in an asset protection policy does not bar coverage unless the...more

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No Case is Too Big to Notify a Claims-Made Insurer

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A headline-grabbing case regarding race in the college admissions process at an elite university, appealed all the way to the United States Supreme Court, is the type of nightmare scenario that might inspire an educational...more

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Arbitration Demand Letter Constitutes a Claim Requiring Timely Notice

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Applying Arizona law, a federal district court has held that an insured’s failure to provide notice of an arbitration demand letter barred coverage for the arbitration later filed against the insured. Supima v. Philadelphia...more

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Four Things Insurance Companies Should Know About Florida House Bill 301

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Florida House Bill 301—approved by the Florida Legislature in the 2019 Regular Session and signed by the Governor—addressed a number of different issues relating to insurance in Florida. This article discusses four of those...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Registered Firms: Annual Compliance Obligations—What You Need To Know

This alert contains a summary of the primary annual and periodic compliance-related obligations that may apply to investment advisers registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) or with a particular...more

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What GCs Need to Know About EPLI

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This is the fifth in our series of posts for general counsel and the HR professionals who support them. As we have noted previously, GCs are responsible for a lot but may not have time to become an expert on everything. These...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Washington’s Courts Delivers Possible Double Whammy Limiting Insurers’ Ability to Use a Late Tender Defense to Delay Providing a...

Liability insurance policies require notice be provided to the insurer to allow the insurers time to adequately investigate and respond to claims. An insured’s failure to provide notice to its carrier can result in the...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The Importance of Providing Timely Notice to the Insurer

One of the most valuable assets a business owns is its insurance coverage. The goal when purchasing liability insurance—and regularly paying insurance premiums—is to have coverage when, for example, your business is faced...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Delaware Supreme Court Holds Receiver is Required to Defend Lawsuits After a Corporation is Wound-Up; Finds No Generally...

In Anderson v Krafft-Murphy Co. Inc., 2013 Del. LEXIS 597 (Del. Nov. 26, 2013), the Delaware Supreme Court held that Sections 278 and 279 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, 8 Del. C. §§ 278-279, require a dissolved...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Alberta Court says Air Cargo Liability Limits can be Broken

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Cargo airlines operating in Alberta may soon find themselves training their front-line staff to ask more questions when dealing with individual consumers. Last month, the Provincial Court of Alberta released a decision in...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

In Alabama, Cost of Complying with a PRP letter Now Insured Under CGL Policies

In a recent ruling of interest to any company named as a potentially responsible party (“PRP”) at a Superfund site, the Alabama Supreme Court has held that a PRP letter constitutes a “suit” under a comprehensive general...more

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