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Friday, June 30, 2017 |
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Industry news, expert analysis, and daily updates on the most significant insurance coverage legal developments—from the insurance and legal experts of The National Underwriter Company.
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Commercial General Liability Texas Supreme Court Explains When Judgment Against Insured Is Recoverable from Insurer
In a significant insurance coverage decision, the Texas Supreme Court has held that the absence of "any meaningful incentive" for an insured to defend itself in a damages suit that led to a judgment against it doomed a subsequent lawsuit to recover that judgment from its insurer. Read More
Attorney's Fees
Can Insured Discover Insurer's Attorney Billing Info? No, Texas Supreme Court Decide
The Texas Supreme Court, in a multidistrict litigation involving allegations of underpaid homeowners insurance claims, has ruled that a party's attorney billing information ordinarily was not discoverable. Read More
Homeowners Insurance
Lawsuit Asserting Fear That Unprotected Sex May Have Led to HIV and Hepatitis Wasn't Covered by Defendant's Insurance Policy
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that a homeowners insurance carrier was not obligated to defend or indemnify its insured against a plaintiff's claims that she was in fear of contracting HIV and hepatitis because the insured had had contemporaneous, unprotected sex with multiple partners. Read More
Automobile Insurance
Insured Could Not Stack UIM Coverage, Even Where Accident Involved Multiple Underinsured Motorists, West Virginia's Top Court Rules
The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia has ruled that an insured was not entitled to "stack" underinsured motorist coverage regardless of the number of underinsured motorists involved in an accident. Read More |
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Automobile Insurance
Legalizing Recreational Marijuana Is Linked to Increased Auto Crashes
Legalizing recreational marijuana use in Colorado, Oregon, and Washington has resulted in collision claim frequencies that were about three percent higher overall than would have been expected without legalization, according to a new Highway Loss Data Institute analysis. Read More
Automobile Insurance
Report Highlights Marijuana Legalization's Impacts on Impaired Driving Systems
The National Cooperative Research and Evaluation Program has issued a report exploring the consequences on the impaired driving system of the legalization of marijuana. Read More |
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Seventy-Two Percent of College Students and Recent Grads Have Challenges Finding Affordable Health Insurance, Poll Finds Read More |
The City That Has the Safest Drivers, According to Allstate, Is
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Can Self-Driving Cars Completely Eliminate Auto Deaths? Read More |
Munich Re America Creating Insurance to Enable Deployment of Low-Speed Autonomous Vehicles Read More |
Avis Partners with Waymo to Support Its Self-Driving Car Program Read More |
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Mitchell J. Auslander, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Carrie Cope, Cope Ehlers, P.C.
Anjali C. Das, Wilson Elser
John F. Finnegan, Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Michele L. Jacobson, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Timothy P. Law, Reed Smith LLP
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Richard D. Milone, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Joseph P. Monteleone, Rivkin Radler LLP
Anne M. Murray, Rivkin Radler LLP
Jerold Oshinsky, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP
Seth B. Schafler, Proskauer Rose LLP
Thomas F. Segalla, Goldberg Segalla
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