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TODAY'S TOP DEVELOPMENTS |
Thursday, October 3, 2013 |
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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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Trial Strategy
Decision Explains When Courts May Bifurcate Coverage and Bad Faith Counts
Bifurcation continues to be an issue that often is litigated in insurance coverage cases. A decision by a federal district court in Washington analyzing whether to bifurcate an insured's breach of contract and bad faith claims against his insurer helps to illustrate many of the issues that courts consider when faced with a motion to bifurcate. Read More
Life Insurance
Two-Year Incontestable Period on Lapsed Policy Begins to Run Anew After Its Reinstatement, Fifth Circuit Rules
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that, under Texas law, the two-year incontestable period on a life insurance policy that has lapsed begins to run anew after it has been reinstated. Read More
Life Insurance
Insured's RICO Claim Asserting Fraud to Deprive Him of Life Insurance Policy May Go Forward, 11th Circuit Rules
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has reversed a district court's order dismissing an insured's complaint and has ordered that the insured be permitted to amend his complaint to assert a claim under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act based on an alleged fraud to deprive him of his life insurance policy. Read More
Title Insurance
Discovery of Long Lost Cemetery Did Not Give Rise to Title Insurance Claim, Appellate Court Rules
A Florida appellate court has affirmed a trial court's decision dismissing an insured's claim against its title insurer for losses it allegedly suffered after it unearthed an abandoned cemetery during construction of a housing project. Read More |
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Health Insurance
Stop-Loss Insurance Coverage Bill Becomes Law in California
California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. has signed a package of bills to continue implementing federal health care reform in California, including SB-161, which establishes California as the state with the highest attachment points for stop-loss insurance coverage in the country. Read More
Reinsurance
SCOR Turns to European Authorities to Contest Caisse Centrale de Réassurance Exclusivity on Natural Catastrophe Reinsurance in France
SCOR said that it will continue to challenge the French Constitutional Council decision upholding the constitutionality of Article L. 431-9 of France's Insurance Code, which exclusively gives the Caisse Centrale de Réassurance state backing for natural catastrophe reinsurance. Read More |
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Systemically Important Insurers: Who Are They and What Will it Mean to Be a GSII? Read More |
Using Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices Statutes to Challenge Reinsurer Delays In Claims Payment Read More |
Hot Issues in the Insurance Bad Faith Arena Read More |
ACE Makes Executive Appointments in its Programs Business Read More |
Forty Percent of Canadians Facing Financial Hardship after Serious Health Event 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 &
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Cort T. Malone, Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C.
D. Milone, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Joseph P. Monteleone, Tressler 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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