Insurance Articles
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September 16, 2009
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Current economic pressures are changing how lawyers are hired and what legal fees their clients pay.
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Spring/Summer 2009
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Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal (Vol. 44:3-4)
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April 24, 2009
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In ReliaStar Life Insurance v. EMC National Life, Slip. Op. 07-0828-cv (April 9, 2009), a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a $3.8 million award of attorney fees as a sanction for bad faith in an arbitration.
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April 21, 2009
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Financial Services Law360, Securities Law360, & Insurance Law360 by Portfolio Media
In the wake of the current financial crisis, large multiline insurance companies find themselves defending the Directors and Officers and Errors and Omissions policies issued to financial companies and the individual directors and officers.
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Spring 2009
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The Brief
In almost every large insurance litigation, inevitably a dispute over whether insurance loss reserves and reinsurance information are discoverable will occur. Not surprisingly, insurers and insureds have diametrically opposite views.
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December 18, 2008
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The insurance industry needs a system for resolving reinsurance claim disputes that is fair, cost-effective and efficient. A review of the literature indicates that the current system of reinsurance arbitration often fails to realize these goals. In a recent survey of reinsurance professionals conducted by the authors, industry participants cited the expense of arbitration as a serious issue and express a desire for tighter discovery limits to control the cost of arbitration.
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August 2008
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The Brief - ABA Magazine
At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, dust and a deafening rumble filled the air of Northern California. Buildings swayed, walls fell, and the world changed in an instant.
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April 3-5, 2008
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American Bar Association
Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section Committee
Annual Spring CLE Meeting
Time element coverages are those where the measurement of loss is tied to a period of time. Most time element coverages are related to business, but there is an analog in the homeowners' policy in the form of the additional living expense coverage.
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March 13, 2008
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Increased property losses are only the beginning. Climate change raises issues across many lines of insurance.
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January 3, 2008
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In its recent decision in Granite State Insurance Company v. ACE American Reinsurance Company, the New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division, First Department, reviewed the scope of the “follow the fortunes doctrine” under New York reinsurance law.
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