8/27/2025 5:58:53 PM Pause, Pay, or Proceed: Statute of Limitations and Filing Suit After the LA Wildfires By Keith Meyer Kya Coletta On January 7, 2025, wildfires raced across Los Angeles, forcing families to evacuate and leave their belongings and heirlooms behind....
8/22/2025 3:44:18 PM Court of Appeal Clarifies War Risks Policy Exclusions and the Duty of Fair Presentation By Thomas Morgan Mark Pring In a victory for policyholders, the Court of Appeal’s decision in Delos Shipholding SA & Ors v Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty SE...
6/5/2025 9:17:26 PM California launches task force to standardize smoke damage claims and remediation By Jessica Gopiao Amber Finch Addressing a growing challenge In response to the increasing severity and complexity of wildfire smoke damage across California, the...
5/29/2025 9:33:23 PM Rectification by construction – when will the English Court come to your aid? By James Stockman Laura-May Scott The Court of Appeal in International Entertainment Holdings Ltd & Ors v Allianz Insurance Plc [2025] 1 ALL ER Comm 623 has again...
3/21/2025 5:10:46 PM Presumptions of defense cost reasonableness can benefit policyholders By Stanley Nardoni An insurer that breaches a duty to defend its insured for a lawsuit will typically be held liable for the expenses the insured “incurred...
3/14/2025 9:50:54 PM California Insurance Commissioner Bulletin Adds Guidance on Smoke Damage Claims By Jessica Gopiao David Weiss On March 7, 2025, the California Department of Insurance issued Bulletin 2025-7, which provides crucial guidance on the handling of smoke...
3/14/2025 3:27:59 PM Court of Appeal clarity on CAR policy interpretation: Sky v Riverstone [2024] By Eleanor Ruiz Chris Lally In its judgment in Sky UK Ltd v Riverstone Managing Agency Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 1567 the Court of Appeal has provided welcome...
1/31/2025 4:59:37 PM Where there’s smoke there can be coverage. CA Federal Judge Weighs In. By David Weiss Hugh Lumpkin Jessica Gopiao Introduction Judge Corley’s (N.D. Cal.) January 10, 2025 decision in Bottega, LLC v. National Surety Corporation provides guidance for...
1/23/2025 5:23:17 PM The Commercial Court finds in favour of policyholder/its captive insurer on anti-suit injunction and jurisdiction challenge By Mark Pring Catherine Lewis Thomas Morgan Daniel Sahraee +1 more... Show less Reed Smith represented Tyson International Company Limited in obtaining a permanent anti-suit injunction against London market reinsurer,...
12/5/2024 4:36:38 PM Court of Appeal finds that Covid-19 was a “catastrophe” By Mark Pring Thomas Morgan This autumn, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales handed down judgment in UnipolSai Assicurazioni SpA v Covéa Insurance Plc [2024]...
10/1/2024 5:54:19 PM Insurance takeaways from Supreme Court of Colorado decision in Gregory v. Safeco Insurance Co. By Nicholas Insua Joseph Vila Earlier this year, in Gregory v. Safeco Insurance Co., the Supreme Court of Colorado addressed the question whether, under Colorado law,...
8/14/2024 5:27:24 PM Fearing Industry Solvency, Insurers Are Seeking to Leverage “Physical Loss or Damage” Rulings in the COVID-19 Context to Roll Back Historic Coverage Generally By Richard Lewis When the COVID-19 Pandemic incepted, and issues arose as to whether affected policyholders could seek Business Income and Civil Authority...
8/7/2024 5:29:16 PM ECB USA v. Chubb: How the use of linguistics in insurance coverage disputes creates risks and uncertainty for corporate policyholders By Garrett Nemeroff Hugh Lumpkin Introduction The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’ recent decision in ECB USA, Inc. v. Chubb provides several important lessons for...
7/23/2024 8:41:16 PM Recovering financial losses caused by the CrowdStrike outage By Mark Pring Andy Moss Cristina Shea In what is described as the largest cyber loss event in years, on Friday, July 19, 2024, customers of CrowdStrike and many others...
7/18/2024 4:13:44 PM Hit by a hurricane? You may have more coverage than you think By Matthew Weaver Christopher Kuleba Adrienne Kitchen Hurricane Beryl has caused destruction in the Caribbean, Mexico and Texas. Continuing issues include power outages, both rolling and...
6/20/2024 4:00:28 PM Subrogation – The limits on stepping into someone else’s shoes By Eleanor Ruiz Jamie Fryer Esme Carey In this post, we take a look at an insurer’s right to subrogation – the mechanism that allows them to step into the shoes of the insured...