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Policyholders Should Prepare Now to Demand Coverage for New York Adult Survivors Act Claims (Part 1)

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New York’s Child Victims Act (“CVA”), which opened a one-year revival window extending the statute of limitations for claims of childhood sexual abuse, had a substantial impact on the state’s businesses and other...more

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Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation Centralizes Some COVID-19 Related Insurance Cases

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Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation Centralizes Some COVID‐19 Related Insurance Cases As reported in our September update, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation at its July 2020 hearing session requested...more

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Title Insurance Policy Excluded Coverage of Claims for Easements Implied by Law, New York Court Rules

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A trial court in New York has ruled that a title insurance policy excluded coverage of claims against the insured for easements implied by law. The Case As the court explained in its decision, in April 2014, 1267 Rogers...more

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Eleventh Circuit Affirms “Exceptional Case” Ruling: Insurer Had No Duty to Defend Construction Debris Claim Where Amended...

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Eleventh Circuit Affirms “Exceptional Case” Ruling: Insurer Had No Duty to Defend Construction Debris Claim Where Amended Complaint Omitted Crucial Fact Implicating Pollution Exclusion The Eleventh Circuit, affirming the...more

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New York Insurance Coverage Law Update

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New York Court Reaffirms That Contractor’s Defective Work Is Not A Covered “Occurrence” Anthony and Sandra Tamer hired RD Rice Construction (“Rice”) as a general contractor to gut and rebuild their combined residential...more

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State Insurance Commissioners Weigh In On Business Interruption Coverage for COVID-19 Losses

Over the past several weeks, we've seen legislators introduce bills to retroactively rewrite existing insurance policies to provide coverage for COVID-19 claims, and a flood of insurance coverage complaints filed across the...more

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California Department of Insurance Issues Notice to Insurers to Comply with their Legal Requirements with Respect to COVID-19...

On April 14, 2020, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued a notice to insurers titled "Requirement to Accept, Forward, Acknowledge, and Fairly Investigate All Business Interruption Insurance Claims Caused by...more

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California: Developments in COVID-19 Business Interruption Claims

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As the shelter-in-place orders continue to impact businesses across California, California’s lawmakers are responding to the growing unrest voiced by the state’s business owners. Developments at the State Level - ...more

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An Absolute Pollution Exclusion: Reading The ‘Fine’ Print

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A federal judge recently relied on a pollution exclusion to find that Great American Insurance Company was not obligated to cover losses associated with the unintended distribution of rock fines into New Jersey’s Spruce Run...more

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