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TODAY'S TOP DEVELOPMENTS Friday, October 16, 2015

 
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.

 CASE LAW

Exclusions
Exclusion Barred Coverage for Madoff Losses, N.Y. Appeals Court Rules
An appellate court in New York, reversing a trial court's decision, has ruled that exclusion x in financial institution bonds barred coverage of losses suffered in the Madoff Ponzi scheme. Read More

Automobile Insurance
Louisiana Supreme: Collateral Source Rule Does Not Include Attorney-Negotiated Medical Discounts Obtained in Litigation
The Louisiana Supreme Court has adopted a "bright-line rule" that medical discounts negotiated by a plaintiff's attorney do "not fall within the ambit of the collateral source rule." Read More

Environmental Liability
Mold: Excluded, Mostly, Louisiana District Court Decides
A federal district court in Louisiana has granted partial summary judgment in favor of an insurer as to mold claims and an insurance policy's mold exclusion – but not with respect to mold claims in one particular room in the insured building where, the court said, factual questions related to the cause of the mold in that room could be "better developed at trial." Read More

Crime
No Coverage for Investment Earnings Lost through Advisors' Fraud, District Court Holds
The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota has ruled that a crime policy did not cover returns that the insured asserted it had earned on certain of its investments but had lost through the fraud of its investment advisors, concluding that the insured had not "owned" those earnings. Read More

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 LEGISLATIVE/REGULATORY

Superstorm Sandy

FEMA Seeks to Recover More than $14 Million Paid to Superstorm Sandy Claimants
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is seeking to recover $14 million in Superstorm Sandy grant money from 2,000 New York claimants it says were not entitled to the payments. Read More

In the States
Delaware Joins Anti-Price Optimization Bandwagon
Now, the Delaware Insurance Department is warning property and casualty insurers writing personal lines policies in Delaware against using price optimization. Read More

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 INDUSTRY NEWS
One in Four Americans Has Been the Victim of a Data Breach or Cyber Attack, Travelers Reports Read More

Health Care Costs for Retired Couples Rise to an Estimated $245,000, Fidelity Research Shows 
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Insurance Litigator James Fitzgerald Joins Akin Gump from Stroock 
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Former Gardere Insurance Coverage Attorneys Stephen Moll and Jim Cooper join Reed Smith as Partners in Houston 
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FC&S Legal Publishes "2015 Excess and Surplus Lines Laws: Delaware" 
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Timothy P. Law, Reed Smith LLP
Cort T. Malone, Anderson Kill, P.C.
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Joseph P. Monteleone, Rivkin Radler LLP
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David D. Thamann, The National Underwriter Company

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