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Insurance Recovery - 2025 Year in Review

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The 2025 Insurance Coverage Year in Review curates the most consequential insurance coverage rulings of the year to assist corporate policyholders, risk managers and in-house counsel with existing and future claims and policy...more

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January 2026 New York Insurance Coverage Update

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The insured, a plumbing company, faced millions of dollars in potential liability for claims arising from a fire at an apartment building where the insured performed work. The insured sought coverage for those claims under a...more

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Illinois Supreme Court Resolves Hotly Contested Pollution Exclusion Issue with Significant Impact for Ethylene Oxide and Other...

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On January 23, 2026, in a case involving an insurance coverage dispute, the Illinois Supreme Court answered a question certified by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals about whether and, to what extent, a permit or...more

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New York Court Clarifies When Broker E&O Claims Accrue in Coverage-Disclaimer Cases

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One of the questions that must always be considered with regard to professional liability claims is when the claim accrues for purposes of applicable statutes of limitations. In insurance broker E&O claims involving policies...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Insurance – Texas Style, Part 2: Stowers Liability and Bankruptcy

This is the second in a series of discussions about insurance issues unique to the Lone Star State. Both bankruptcy and the ability for a policyholder to assign its first-party, bad-faith claim against its insurer can be...more

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Claims Notes: January 2026

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Minimum Auto Limits Raised to $35k/$70k - Effective January 1, 2026, minimum limits for standard auto liability policies increase to $35,000 per person/$70,000 per accident for both liability and UM/UIM coverage (up from...more

Marshall Dennehey

Appellate Court Finds Term “Occurrence” Ambiguous as It Pertains to Parkland Mass Shooting

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Sheriff of Broward County v. Evanston Insurance Company, U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit, No. 24-13317, Nov. 10, 2025 - The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals was recently tasked with determining whether the mass shooting...more

Wiley Rein LLP

In Coverage Dispute Over PFAS Remediation, New Jersey District Court Dismisses Bad Faith Claim

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The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, applying New Jersey law, held that a bad faith claim against an insurer must be dismissed when it is rooted in the same conduct as the breach of contract claim,...more

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December 2025 Insurance Update

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We begin this month’s update with a pair of cases from the Eleventh Circuit, which unfortunately, both involve claims arising from senseless shootings. The court first takes up the issue of number of occurrences in the...more

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Fracking the Fine Print: The Fifth Circuit Analyzes the Duty to Defend, Bankruptcy Assignments, and the Contours of Third-Party...

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The Fifth Circuit in BPX Production Company v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's London, No. 23-20034, 2025 WL 2952911 (5th Cir. Oct. 20, 2025), revived oil and gas producer BPX Production Company’s contractual coverage claims...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Insured’s Motion to Stay Coverage Action Denied Where Duty to Defend is Based on Allegations Against Insured

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The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, applying Illinois law, denied an insured’s motion to stay an insurer’s declaratory judgment action seeking a declaration that it owed no duty to defend. Landmark...more

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

A Primer on Construction-Related Insurance Products

With increasing frequency, at Tarter Krinsky & Drogin, we find our attorneys assisting owners and developers in connection with assessing and procuring the necessary policies of insurance associated with their construction...more

Goldberg Segalla

[Webinar] The Evolving Risks and Exposures Presented By AI - December 16th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST

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Join Goldberg Segalla partner Dan Strick and attorney Andrew Simmers for a look into emerging risks presented by generative artificial intelligence. Dan and Andrew will discuss AI-related claims, how current policies apply,...more

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November 2025 New York Insurance Coverage Update

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Eastern District Finds Ongoing Operations Exclusion Is Unambiguous And Precludes Coverage For Worker’s Lawsuit- Steven Rodriguez owns property in Queens and leased one of the storefronts to a restaurant. Without...more

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Navigating the Duty to Defend: Insights from the Third Edition of Hinshaw’s Fifty-State Survey

An Overview of The Duty to Defend- Many insurance policies issued as primary layer coverage establish two separate principal duties on the part of the insurer: the duty to defend and the duty to indemnify. 1. The duty to...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Derivative and Secondary Liability for Copyright Infringement: Knowledge vs. Control

One may be liable for copyright infringement by another under theories of contributory infringement or vicarious infringement. Where there are multiple infringers of a copyright, all infringers are jointly and severally...more

Wiley Rein LLP

No Coverage for Failure to Warn of TCE Contamination Plume

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The Missouri Court of Appeals, applying Missouri law, held that insurers had no duty to defend or indemnify a defense contractor in connection with a class action alleging failure to warn of groundwater contamination. Certain...more

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Fifth Circuit Issues Pro-Policyholder Ruling that ADR Proceeding Triggered Insurer’s Duty to Defend and Indemnify

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On October 20, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a significant decision clarifying that an insurer’s duty to defend under Texas law extends to a contractually mandated alternative dispute...more

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October 2025 New York Insurance Coverage Update

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Two underlying actions were filed against US Crane & Rigging LLC and its subcontractor, NY Crane Hoist Operations LLC, for damages caused by unsecured cranes at a building project during Hurricane Zeta. Liberty Mutual Fire...more

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Mind The Gap!

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The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York addressed the scope of insurance coverage for workplace injuries on a Brooklyn, New York, construction project, holding that the project owner ’ s insurer had no...more

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Illinois Federal Court Holds Facial Recognition Data Falls Within Scope of “Confidential or Personal Information” in “Access or...

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In Phoenix Insurance Co. v. Ackercamps.com LLC, the U.S. District court for the Southern District of Illinois held that an “access or disclosure of confidential or personal information” exclusion in a commercial general...more

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Mexico Transportation and Logistics: What You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask

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Transportation and logistics providers in the United States often look south for potential growth opportunities. Thirty years of NAFTA (and now USMCA) have produced tremendous production capacity across North America, much of...more

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Insurer Must Defend Suit Over Unauthorized Use of Images in Social Media Ads

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The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, applying Minnesota law, has held that an insurer had a duty to defend a lawsuit alleging personal and advertising injury under both a policy’s general liability coverage...more

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October 2025 Insurance Update

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We are pleased to bring you our monthly insurance update. And insurance brokers will be pleased with the Connecticut Supreme Court’s decision on the scope of an insurance agent’s duties. The court held that an agent has...more

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What Policyholders Should Know About Their Insurance When a “New” Long-Tail Risk Emerges: A Practical Checklist

Companies in certain industries have years and even decades of experience in defending and resolving “long-tail” liabilities for suits, claims and other proceedings—such as for asbestos-related disease or...more

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