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Rivkin Radler LLP

December 2024 Insurance Update

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There’s been plenty of litigation over whether construction defect claims qualify for coverage under a CGL policy. This month, we discuss two federal circuit court rulings (First and Seventh Circuits) that reach opposite...more

Conn Kavanaugh

Lessons Learned from Amber Heard and Bill Cosby: Homeowners Coverage for Defamation Claims

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We all love to focus on the extravagant lives of celebrities, but how about the mundane aspects of their lives, like insurance? It might surprise you that many well-known people have used their homeowners insurance policies...more

Miller Nash LLP

Third Circuit Finds That Allegation of False Comparative Advertising Triggers Duty To Defend

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Most commercial liability policies provide what is known as “personal and advertising injury” coverage, which usually provides coverage for claims that an insured’s advertising defamed or disparaged another person’s or...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Despite Allegation that Law Firm Was Not Providing “Legal Advice,” Complaint Triggers Duty to Defend Under Lawyers’ Professional...

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A California federal court has held that a complaint alleging that a law firm was providing services in a non-legal capacity nonetheless triggered a duty to defend the firm under a lawyers’ professional liability policy,...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Eleventh Circuit Finds No Coverage for Contempt Proceedings under Lloyd's Professional Liability Insurance Policy

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In Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, P.A. v. Prosight-Syndicate 1110 at Lloyd’s, United States No. 15-12399, 2017 WL 586450 (11th Cir., February 14, 2017) the insured law firm sought to recover legal fees and costs incurred...more

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