AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 4: What to Do When Insurance Companies Deny Behavioral Health Claims
Best Practices for Negotiating Manuscript Exclusions
Coverage Issues Arising Out of Assault and Battery Claims
Long-Term Effects of Russia/Ukraine on Insurance
Mediating Complex Insurance Coverage Disputes Series Part 3 – Breaking the Log Jam
Cyberside Chats: There is a war in Europe. What does that mean for your cyber insurance policy?
Mediating Complex Insurance Coverage Disputes Series Part 2 – What Goes on in Mediation?
Mediating Complex Insurance Coverage Disputes Series Part 1 – Preparing For The Mediation
Out With a Bang: Current State of Play on Coverage for COVID-Related Losses
Settling a Claim: Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable
NGE OnDemand: The Importance of Timely Reporting Occurrences, Claims and Suits to Insurers with Paul Walker-Bright
Lowenstein’s New Insurance Recovery Podcast Series, “Don’t Take No for an Answer”
Ledgers and Law: Roadblocks Facing the Cannabis Industry
Subro Sense - The ABC's of RCV and ACV
WEBINAR: COVID-19 Insurance Coverage Class Actions
What to Do When Your Insurance Carrier Says No: How to Protect Yourself from Coverage Denials
The Second Circuit’s recent decision affirming a $54.2 million recovery for CITGO signals the judiciary’s renewed commitment to a bedrock principle of insurance law: Ambiguous policy language must be construed in favor of...more
In CITGO Petroleum v. Ascot Underwriting Limited, et al., Case No. 24-227 (2d Cir. 2025), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently affirmed a $54.2 million judgment (plus interest) in favor of CITGO Petroleum...more
A recent coverage decision by the Delaware Superior Court in Motive Technologies, Inc. v. Associated Industries Insurance Company shows that examining the full timeline of allegations in a lawsuit can defeat policy exclusions...more
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, applying Ohio law, has held that it cannot conclude as a matter of law whether a criminal indictment brought by the state based on sexual harassment of a minor...more
The United States District Court for the Central District of California, applying California law, has held that coverage was barred for insureds who did not give timely notice, despite timely notice by the policyholder. The...more
The “prior knowledge exclusion” is an important provision to understand in the world of claims-made insurance policies. A typical prior knowledge exclusion specifies that the policy may provide coverage for a claim only if,...more
The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, applying New Jersey law, has held that a prior knowledge exclusion barred coverage for a legal malpractice claim arising from a probate dispute because a...more
When it comes to insurance claim practices handled in bad faith, the Golden State is an unfortunate leader. In August 2025, the Sixth Appellate District Court of California published a decision in an insurance dispute that...more
Across Ontario and beyond, more people are facing disability claim denials from their insurance providers. For individuals already coping with serious health challenges, these refusals add another layer of stress....more
Ronald Zabriskie v. First Protective Insurance Company d/b/a Frontline Insurance Company, Fla. 5th DCA, No. 5D2024-1072, LT Case No. 2022-CA-685, June 13, 2025 - The appellate court reversed a trial court’s dismissal of a...more
Morales v. Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, Fla. 3d DCA, No. 3D24-0096, LT Case No. 20-25161, August 6, 2025 - In August, the Third District Court of Appeal in Miami upheld a summary judgment in favor of the insurance...more
On August 29, 2025, Judge James Wesley Hendrix in Indiana Affordable Storage, Inc. v. The Ohio Casualty Insurance Company, No. 5:24-cv-00050-H-BV (N.D. Tex. Aug. 29, 2025) granted summary judgment in favor of The Ohio...more
Richard Brito and Pamela Garcia f/k/a Juana Tejada v. Citizens v. Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, Fla. 2nd DCA, No. 2D2024-0664, June 18, 2025 - The carrier provided a homeowner’s policy to the insureds that provided...more
In Cypress Creek Equine LLC v. North American Specialty Insurance Co., the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals recently told an insured to “hold your horses” regarding coverage under mortality policies covering a thoroughbred...more
A federal district court in Virginia held that two insurance companies have a duty to defend and indemnify a hotel operator in an underlying lawsuit alleging that the operator aided and abetted sex trafficking of a woman. In...more
Jealous husbands, protection payments, defective earplugs, opioids, and abuse of process form the backdrop to our September Insurance Update. We begin with two cases from Delaware’s high court. The first reaffirms...more
As anyone with a large insurance practice knows, insurance companies sometimes reach out to outside counsel not to request the defense of a lawsuit against an insured (or perhaps the insurer itself), but instead to ask for a...more
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania recently granted summary judgment in an insurance coverage dispute between intervenor LoanDepot.com LLC and Allstate Insurance Co., holding that LoanDepot’s suit...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, applying Florida law, has held that letters from an insured company explaining the basis for termination of its CEO and President and requesting that he preserve...more
It’s said that an ant can carry fifty times its own weight. That’s nothing. A recent decision out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit provides a compelling reminder to policyholders and their counsel: Even the...more
So-called “gap” insurance policies – policies that provide critical-illness, hospital-indemnity and specified-disease coverage – have been on the rise due to a number of factors, including the frequency of high-deductible...more
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, applying Virginia law, has held that two lawsuits alleging misconduct based on flawed drug testing procedures performed by the insured do not constitute...more
In this episode of Don't Take No For An Answer, Lynda A. Bennett and Eric Jesse discuss two New York cases that mark a turning point in allowing policyholders to pursue bad faith claims against their insurers. The cases shift...more
In El Dueno, LLC v. Mid-Century Insurance Company (2025 WL 1540329) (10th Cir. 2025)), the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgement on behalf of the insurer on the basis that the insurer did not act in bad...more
In Caribe D. Billie v. Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp. et al, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut granted Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp.’s (“Insurer”) motion for summary judgment, holding that the Insurer was...more