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Insurance Insights for the Dog Days of August

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Welcome to the inaugural issue of Insurance Insights, a gathering of notable legal developments and trends relevant to the insurance industry. In this issue, the California Supreme Court covers COVID-19 claims, Georgia...more

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Young Lawyers: Raising the Bar - Preventing and Defending Bad Faith Lawsuits

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Bad Faith in Context - Bad faith most commonly arises in one of three different contexts: (1) in a claim that an insured brings against its own insurer; (2) in a claim that a third-party makes against a policyholder that...more

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The Appellate Court of Maryland Holds Corporate Auto Policies Cannot Extend to Individuals

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This past January, Judge Glenn T. Harrell, Jr. of the Appellate Court of Maryland (ACM) found in favor of an insurance company that disclaimed coverage, under a corporate automobile liability issued to a business, when the...more

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A New Era for Extra-Contractual Damages in Oregon - What We Know and What We Are Learning Six Months Since Moody

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The start of 2024 marked the end of an insurance era in Oregon. On December 29, 2023—the last Friday before the new year—the Oregon Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in Moody v. Oregon Community Credit Union,...more

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Legal Updates for Lawyers’ Professional Liability - Case Law Update

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In Law Office of Drew J. Bauman v. Hanover Insurance Company, 2023 WL 2238552 (D.N.J. February 27, 2023), the plaintiffs maintained a professional liability insurance policy with the Hanover defendants from October 2017 to...more

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No Coverage for Breach of Contract under Professional Liability Policy

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The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, applying Minnesota law, has held that a law firm’s professional liability policy does not provide coverage for the firm’s alleged breach of various litigation...more

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New Jersey Court Holds Primary Home Insurer Must Cover Dog Bite Injury at Insured’s Second Home

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In Berardi v. FMI Insurance Co., a panel of New Jersey’s Superior Court, Appellate Decision, affirmed a lower court’s ruling, which ordered a primary home insurer to defend its insured in a dog bite lawsuit, stemming from...more

Marshall Dennehey

New Jersey District Court Affirms Irrelevance of Breach of Contract Claims in Cases Involving Woerner Actions.

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Law Office of Drew J. Bauman v. Hanover Insurance Company, 2023 WL 2238552 (D.N.J. Feb. 27, 2023) - The plaintiffs had maintained a professional liability insurance policy with Hanover from October 2017 to October 2019. They...more

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The Title Reporter: A Legal Update for the Title Insurance Industry - Autumn 2023

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Here is what we cover in this issue of Title Insurance Update Autumn 2023- • “Deed Theft: Recent New York Developments” explains that New York State prosecutors, and the New York State legislature, have been focusing on the...more

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Alleged Willful Conduct Enough to Bar Coverage Under California Insurance Code Section 533

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A California federal court, applying California law, found that a lawsuit for intentional interference with contractual relations necessarily alleged a willful act and was therefore uninsurable under California Insurance...more

Carlton Fields

Texas Doubles Down on “Intent to Deceive” as Requirement to Void Insurance Policy

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The Texas Supreme Court reinforced common law precedent that insurers cannot avoid liability under an insurance policy based on a misrepresentation in an insurance application unless the insurer can establish that the insured...more

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Insurance Coverage Not Limited by a Texas Service Agreement

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As you negotiate your master service agreements are you confident that you know how insurance choices might affect indemnity obligations? Me neither. That’s why I turn to my Gray Reed partner Darin Brooks and his insurance...more

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New York Insurance Coverage Law Update - March 28 2023

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Southern District Finds That Exclusion In HO3 Form Precludes Coverage Even Though Form Inadvertently Omitted From Copy Of Policy Sent To Insured- Scottsdale Insurance Company issued a homeowner’s policy to 232 Dune Road...more

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The Title Reporter — Spring 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: •An appellate court in Arkansas, affirming a trial court’s decision, has ruled that a title insurer had properly...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Title (Coverage) Not Available

Two recent decisions concerning title insurance illustrate that an insured’s negligence can result in an exclusion from coverage and that title insurers generally do not owe a fiduciary duty to their insureds....more

Wiley Rein LLP

Second Circuit Affirms No Duty to Defend Claims Against Construction Firm Outside the Scope of Professional Liability Coverage

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, applying New York law, has held that neither of two claims against an insured construction company fell within the scope of coverage under the company’s claims-made...more

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Ohio Supreme Court Rules No Coverage For Ransomware Attack Under BOP Policy Because Computer Software Sustained No Direct Physical...

The Ohio Supreme Court waited until the last week of the year to issue what may be the most important silent coverage decision of 2022. Direct physical injury is a fundamental requirement of first-party property policies. The...more

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Insured Cannot Amend Complaint to Add Bad Faith Claim Where Coverage Issue is “Debatable”

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Applying Minnesota law, the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota has denied an insured’s motion to amend its coverage litigation complaint to add a claim for bad faith, holding that coverage under the...more

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First State Supreme Court Decision Holds No Business Interruption Coverage for Covid Shutdowns

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On April 21, 2022, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the trial court’s decision that several restaurants were not entitled to business interruption coverage for losses resulting from shutdown orders issued by...more

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Lawyers Professional Liability Policy Does Not Cover Non-Insured Construction Management Company; Insurer Justified in Requesting...

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A New York federal court, applying New York law, has held that a lawyers professional liability policy does not provide coverage to a construction management company not named as an “insured” in the policy and that did not...more

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Renewal of Property Policy Requires Living Insured

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A policy renewal requires a living insured to form a valid insurance contract, the Sixth Circuit recently ruled. In Boby Davis, et al. v. Westfield Ins. Co., Case No. 21-2797 (6th Cir. Mar. 14, 2022), Della Shields received a...more

Wiley Rein LLP

California Court Finds Insolvency Exclusion Ambiguous, Limits Application to Insolvency of Third Parties Other Than Claimant

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A California federal district court, applying California law, has held that an insolvency exclusion in a bankers’ professional liability policy did not bar coverage for a lawsuit filed by a receiver against a bank, finding...more

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP

Appellate Court Holds Entitlement to Fees and Costs Award Under Section 768.79 Does Not Require Defendant’s Settlement Offer...

Few things play a more sizable factor in litigation than attorney’s fees. They incentivize suing as much as they do settling. The prospect of liability for the other side’s fees is a long shadow cast by every case, whether it...more

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Louisiana Federal Court Upholds Applicability of Anti-Concurrent Causation Exclusion for Hurricane Damage

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In a timely reaffirmation of the Fifth Circuit’s 2007 ruling in Leonard v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co., a Louisiana federal court recently upheld the application of an insurance policy’s Anti-Concurrent Causation Clause (“ACC”)...more

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Free Rein Venue Choices? Not So Fast Says the Commercial Division

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The principles of jurisdiction and venue are paramount when determining not only where a proceeding will be conducted, but also which particular laws will govern the proceeding. ...more

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