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....
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...
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...
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,...
4/27/2023 2:37:49 AM An insurance company’s generic reservation of right can lead to a Waiver of a Late Notice Defense By Anthony Crawford For insurance recovery attorneys, one of the more frustrating ways for a policyholder to lose coverage for a property loss is on the...
6/10/2022 1:26:30 AM Can property or specie insurance provide coverage for crypto losses? By Jessica Gopiao Christopher Kuleba How cryptocurrencies are viewed by courts can be determinative when seeking coverage for a cryptocurrency-related loss, and whether...
4/21/2022 4:30:48 PM Florida: the time to move for attorney’s fees post-appraisal By Wesley Butensky Christopher Kuleba Most residential property policies provide for an “appraisal” as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism when the insurer concedes...
10/18/2021 10:06:36 PM Music to my ears: Coverage considerations for musical instrument insurance (Part I of II) By Adrienne Kitchen John Vishneski Part I: Policy options This is the first part of a two-part blog series titled, “Music to my ears: Insurance coverage for musical...
4/3/2020 7:57:45 PM Pollution exclusion should not preclude coverage for virus-related claims By Mike Sampson Faced with mounting claims for insurance coverage as a result of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, commercial insurers are...