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For this holiday season, we’re looking at a recent case out of Texas that operates as a small gift for insurers, which provides a relatively bright-line rule for future Stowers analyses. As we have previously written, while...more
Policies that May Provide Coverage for Coronavirus - Public and private entities carry a variety of insurance policies that may help mitigate business losses related to COVID-19. Such losses may include slowdown or...more
The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has disrupted events, supply chains, sales, and entire industries. As a result, businesses will likely look to their property insurers to recuperate lost business income, as well as...more
Among the legal issues presented by the coronavirus outbreak is the extent to which insurance policies may provide relief for virus-related losses. Proactive businesses are reviewing the specific risks they face and looking...more
In Pitzer College v. Indian Harbor Insurance Company, the California Supreme Court resolved two previously open questions in insurance law: (1) it concluded that the notice-prejudice rule is a fundamental public policy of...more
In answering two questions posed to it by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the California Supreme Court on August 29, 2019, addressed two significant issues: 1) whether California’s common law notice-prejudice rule is a...more
On August 29, 2019, the California Supreme Court issued a decision on an important issue to many insurance coverage disputes. In Pitzer College v. Indian Harbor Insurance Co., the Court held that California’s...more
Pitzer College v. Indian Harbor Insurance Company, — P.3d –, 2019 WL 4065521 (2019); California Supreme Court, Case No. S239510 (Aug. 29, 2019). On certified questions by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the California...more
On August 29, 2019, in Pitzer College v. Indian Harbor Insurance Company, 2019 Cal. LEXIS 6240, the California Supreme Court held that, in the insurance context, the common law “notice-prejudice” rule is a “fundamental public...more
Third-party liability policies often include aggregation clauses. As the name suggests, these clauses aggregate “related claims” or “interrelated wrongful acts” into one claim or occurrence....more
Insurance carriers and policyholders often argue about the scope of policy provisions. Generally, policyholders take an expansive view of insuring agreements, while carriers often construe them more narrowly. But not all...more