|
|
| TODAY'S TOP DEVELOPMENTS |
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
|
|
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.
|
|
Workers Compensation
Divided Washington Supreme Court Limits Employee’s Asbestos Exposure Claim to Workers’ Compensation
The Washington Supreme Court has ruled, 5-4, that a Boeing Company employee asserting that he had been injured by exposure to asbestos was limited to recovering under the state’s workers’ compensation law where he had not demonstrated that Boeing had actual knowledge that exposure to asbestos was certain to lead to his being injured. Read More
Professional Liability Insurance
LRRA – But Not the FAA – Preempts Law Banning Mandatory Arbitration Clauses in Insurance Policies, Nebraska’s Top Court Rules
The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that the federal Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986, but not the Federal Arbitration Act, preempts a Nebraska law that prohibits mandatory arbitration clauses in insurance contracts. Read More
Automobile Insurance
Insurer May Be Required to Pay Interest Where It Had Not Paid – Within 30 Days – Amount It Had Agreed to Pay to Settle Claim against Its Insured
A Wisconsin appellate court has ruled that an insurance company that failed to pay within 30 days the amount it had agreed to pay to settle a personal injury claim against its insured could be required by the trial court to pay interest on the settlement amount, concluding that “a reasonable time for payment was ‘implied.’” Read More
Homeowners Insurance
Intentional Acts Exclusion Can Bar Coverage for Fire Set by Insane Insured
A federal district court in Florida has ruled that, under Florida law, an intentional acts exclusion in a homeowner’s insurance policy could bar coverage for damages resulting from a fire intentionally set by an insane insured if, at the time, he understood the physical nature and consequences of his actions. Read More |
View All Case Law Developments |
| |
|
Automobile Insurance
California’s Pioneering “Uber” Bill Signed into Law by Governor Brown; Establishes Insurance Requirements for Ridesharing Services
California Governor Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown Jr. has signed AB 2293 into law, establishing minimum insurance requirements for ridesharing services (referred to in the law as “Transportation Network Companies” or “TNCs”). Read More
In the States
NAIC Appoints Adam Hamm to Financial Stability Oversight Council
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has appointed Adam Hamm, the president of the NAIC and the insurance commissioner of North Dakota, to a two year term as the state insurance commissioner representative on the Financial Stability Oversight Council. Read More
|
View All Legislative/Regulatory Developments |
|
|
|
|
| Life Insurers Reevaluating Their Capital Management Strategies, Towers Watson Survey Shows Read More |
Reinsurance Group of America Receives License from China Insurance Regulatory Commission to Operate Branch Office in Shanghai Read More |
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Expands into Life Sciences, Names John Parente Head of New Life Sciences Business Read More |
Insurance Litigator Wendy Enerson Joins Cozen O’Connor from Dentons Read More |
Allianz Life Launches Fixed Index Universal Life Insurance Policy Read More |
View All Industry News |
| |
|
| |
INSURANCE COVERAGE
LAW REPORT |
|
 |
View Entire September Insurance Coverage Law Report |
| |
| View Insurance Coverage Law Report Archives |
| |
|
|
|
|
| FC&S Legal Editorial Advisory Board |
Mitchell J. Auslander, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Carrie Cope, Schuyler, Roche & Crisham, 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
Donald S. Malecki, Malecki, Deimling, Nielander &
Associates, LLC |
|
Cort T. Malone, Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C.
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
David D. Thamann, The National Underwriter Company |
|
|
FC&S Daily Legal Report ($1,295 annual subscription) is included as part of your subscription to FC&S Legal: The Insurance Information Center. FC&S Daily Legal Report and The Insurance Coverage Law Report are publications of The National Underwriter Company. For more information, visit www.fcandslegal.com. To subscribe to FC&S Legal, please contact customer service at 1-800-543-0874 or customerservice@SummitProNets.com.
|
|
| FC&S Legal: The Insurance Coverage Law Information Center |
|
|
|
To ensure future delivery of email, please add admin@list.nationalunderwriter.com
to your address book, contacts or safe sender list.
You have received this email at %%merge members_.emailaddr_%%.
Click here to unsubscribe from %%merge list.descshort%%.
©2014 Summit Professional Networks, All rights reserved. Privacy Policy |
 |
4157 Olympic Blvd., Suite 225
Erlanger, KY 41018
1-800-543-0874 |
|
|
|
|
