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TODAY'S TOP DEVELOPMENTS Tuesday, November 1, 2016     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 Claims Resolution Arbitration Clause in Parties' Contract Bound Insurer to Arbitrate General Contractor's Claims, Alabama Supreme Court Says An arbitration clause in an agreement between a general contractor and a subcontractor provided for mandatory arbitration of the general contractor's claims against the subcontractor's insurer, the Alabama Supreme Court has ruled. Read More Claims Resolution "Camouflaged" Arbitration Clause Was Adhesionary and Unenforceable, Louisiana Supreme Court Determines The Louisiana Supreme Court, reversing an appellate court's decision, has refused to enforce an arbitration clause that was "camouflaged" in a contract and that lacked mutuality. Read More Claims Resolution Arbitration Clauses in Two Insurers' Joint Loss Agreements Did Not Entitle Third Insurer to Insert Itself into Their Arbitration, Seventh Circuit Decides The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, affirming a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, has ruled that joint loss agreements in two insurance policies did not entitle a third insurance company that had issued a separate policy to one of the other insurers to insert itself into an arbitration between the other two insurers. Read More Claims Resolution Arbitration Clause's Enforceability Was for Arbitrator to Decide Where Challenge Was Not Just to Arbitration Clause, Third Circuit Rules The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that an arbitrator had to determine whether a dispute under a reinsurance participation agreement had to be arbitrated where the validity of the agreement itself — and not simply its arbitration clause — was being challenged. Read More View All Case Law Developments    LEGISLATIVE/REGULATORY In the States This May Be How Cities Will Learn How to Deal with Autonomous Vehicles The Bloomberg Aspen Initiative on Cities and Autonomous Vehicles is a new program intended to help prepare cities for the emergence of autonomous vehicles. Read More Insurance Fraud Pharmacist Sentenced to Prison for Selling Black-Market HIV Medications  A Long Island pharmacist, Ira Gross, has been sentenced to eight to 24 years in state prison for his role in selling over $274 million dollars of diverted, medically worthless HIV medication. Read More View All Legislative/Regulatory Developments      INDUSTRY NEWS Ex-Gen Re GC Forms New Insurance Boutique  Read More FC&S Legal Publishes "'Keyspan', 'Viking Pump' Throw N.Y. Allocation Law Into State of Confusion" Read More Kiernan Bell Retiring from Offshore Law Firm Appleby; John Wasty to Succeed Her  Read More Insurers and Reinsurers Launch Blockchain Initiative B3i  Read More Here's What One Person Did With an Art History Degree and an Insurance Broker's License  Read More View All Industry News   Discussion Attractive Nuisances Browse our entire library of over 2,500 insurance resources and forms.    INSURANCE COVERAGE  LAW REPORT View Entire Fall Insurance Coverage Law Report   View Insurance Coverage Law Report Archives   Steven A. Meyerowitz, ESQ. Director, FC&S Legal smeyerowitz@alm.com Victoria Prussen Spears, ESQ. Associate Director, FC&S Legal vspears@alm.com FC&S Legal Editorial Advisory Board 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 Cort T. Malone, Anderson Kill, P.C. 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 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@nuco.com. FC&S Legal: The Insurance Coverage Law Information Center    LinkedIn   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%%. Copyright © 2016 ALM Media, LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy 4157 Olympic Blvd., Suite 225 Erlanger, KY 41018 1-800-543-0874