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,...
1/22/2025 7:17:29 PM Key California insurance laws passed after previous major wildfires now play crucial role in ongoing L.A. wildfire crisis By Nicholas Insua Garrett Nemeroff Kya Coletta Amber Finch +1 more... Show less In the midst of the devastating and ongoing Los Angeles wildfires, on January 9, 2025, Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued the...
1/9/2025 5:25:57 PM Navigating Property Fire Insurance Claims Amidst the Los Angeles Fires By Amber Finch Cristina Shea Jessica Gopiao The wildfires in Los Angeles, including the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, and Runyon Canyon fires, are fast-moving, destructive, and scary. As...
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]...
12/2/2024 5:00:35 PM Insurers Explore New AI Coverage Options, Potentially Filling Coverage Gaps for Policyholders Developing Generative AI By Cristina Shea Stephanie Gee Elizabeth Taylor Today, generative AI (“Gen AI”) is one of the world’s fastest growing technologies, with businesses around the globe developing, adopting...
10/31/2024 4:42:35 PM Navigating the insurance regulatory landscape in the UK By Laura-May Scott Chris Lally The insurance sector in the UK is subject to a complex and dynamic regulatory framework, which aims to ensure the protection of...
10/7/2024 2:52:43 PM Policy Pings! Navigating Notifications in Your Insurance Policy By Emily McMahan Margaret Campbell All too often it is only when there is a major incident that businesses think about the terms of their insurance. However, it is...
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,...
9/3/2024 2:31:02 PM Recovering from the CrowdStrike outage By Cristina Shea David Ledet Andrew Kintner This article provides an update to a post published on July 23, 2024 by Mark Pring, Andy Moss, and Cristina Shea, which can be found...
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...
5/3/2024 5:00:55 PM A blast from the past – unearthed: Court of Appeal dismisses University of Exeter’s appeal By Mark Pring Daniel Sahraee In 1942, the Luftwaffe dropped a 1000kg high-explosive bomb onto farmland in the outskirts of Exeter. Some 82 years later, the Court of...