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                Thursday, September 25, 2014 | 
               
              
                
                   
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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 
                        What  is Lloyd’s? Answering that Question Leads Court to Dismiss DJ Action on  Diversity Grounds 
                        A federal district court in the U.S. Virgin Islands  has dismissed a declaratory judgment action brought by certain underwriters at  Lloyd’s of London after finding that Lloyd’s had failed to demonstrate  diversity jurisdiction. Read More
                         
                         
                        Automobile  Insurance 
                        N.Y.  District Court Permits No-Fault Claims Adjusters to Pursue Overtime Claims  against Allstate 
                        A federal district court in New York has decided  that a class and collective action brought by an insurance company’s no-fault  claims adjusters against the insurer may proceed. Read More
                         
                         
                        Life  Insurance 
                        Eleventh  Circuit Finds No Ambiguity in Exclusion to Policy’s Accidental Death Rider in  Drug Overdose Case 
                        The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit,  affirming a Georgia district court’s decision, has decided that an exclusion in  a life insurance policy’s accidental death rider was not ambiguous and barred  coverage where an overdose of prescription medicine contributed to the  insured’s death. Read More
                         
                         
                       Excess 
                       District  Court Finds Policy’s Forum Selection Clause to be Valid and Enforceable 
                      A federal district court in Missouri has ruled that  a forum selection clause in a second-layer excess liability policy was  enforceable, and ordered venue moved to the U.S. District Court for the  Southern District of New York. Read More | 
                     
                    
                       
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                        Insurance  Fraud 
                        Insurance  Adjuster Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Insurers and New Jersey Turnpike Authority  of $900,000 
                        The  owner of a New Jersey-based insurance adjusting company has admitted his role  in a scheme to defraud various insurance companies and the New Jersey Turnpike  Authority of at least $900,000. Read More
                         
                         
                        Health    Insurance 
                        Health  Insurance Marketplace Will Have 25 Percent More Issuers in 2015, HHS Reports 
                      The  Department of Health and Human Services has reported that there will be a net  25 percent increase in the number of issuers offering Health Insurance  Marketplace coverage in 2015. Read More
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                      | Robert  Underhill Joins Edwards Wildman as Insurance and Reinsurance Partner in New  York Read More | 
                     
                    
                       
                      Former  HHS Deputy General Counsel Ken Choe to Join Hogan Lovells’ Government  Regulatory Practice Read More | 
                     
                    
                       
                      Ironshore  International Adds Political Risk Cover for M&A Transactions Read More | 
                     
                    
                       
                      Allied  World North America Launches ForceField: Primary D&O for Public Companies Read More | 
                     
                    
                       Anthem  Blue Cross Partners with California Health Systems to Launch Vivity Read More | 
                     
                    
                       
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              |    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 | 
                 
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                   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 | 
                 
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