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Best Best & Krieger LLP

Insurance Coverage for COVID-19 Losses

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

Cozen O'Connor

Property Insurance Coverage Issues Associated with COVID-19

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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

Ballard Spahr LLP

Insurance Coverage Questions Abound Amidst COVID-19 Outbreak

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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

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

3 Lessons For Calif. Insureds From Late-Notice Rule Decision

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

Saul Ewing LLP

Insurers Beware: Choice of Law Provisions May be Overridden by Public Policy Provisions

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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

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California Supreme Court holds that “Notice-Prejudice Rule” Is a “Fundamental Public Policy” of California for the Purpose of...

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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

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

California Supreme Court Ruling Clarifies That the Notice-Prejudice Rule Is a Fundamental Public Policy That May Override Choice...

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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

California Supreme Court Applies Notice-Prejudice Rule to Violation of First-Party Consent Provision as a Predicate to Policy...

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

White and Williams LLP

California Supreme Court Holds “Notice-Prejudice” Rule is “Fundamental Public Policy” of California, May Override Choice of Law...

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

Carlton Fields

Related Decisions: Three Recent Cases Emphasize Breadth of “Related Wrongful Acts”

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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

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Defining ‘Logical Connection’: NC Federal Court Tackles ‘Related Claims’

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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

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