In an unusual and noteworthy publicly-reported discovery battle between a cedant and reinsurer, the cedant sought to protect almost twenty years of historical reserving information relating to late notice of asbestos claims against its insured, on...
The state of the law across the U.S. regarding insurance for construction defects under commercial general liability (CGL) coverage is an ever-changing landscape. Although numerous coverage issues continue to be debated, including the fundamental issue...
This article,”Tips For Handling Workplace Substance Abuse Under ADA,” was updated and reprinted with permission from Law360, October 11, 2017. The opioid crisis has focused attention on workplace substance abuse like never before. In August,...
Insurance policies commonly contain an exclusion for losses caused by “earth movement” or “subsidence.” Such exclusions typically exclude coverage for losses caused by earthquakes, landslides, mudflows, and earth sinking or shifting. Absent language...
This article, “Understanding Insurance Issues in Securities Arbitration and Mediation,” was reprinted with permission from the New York Law Journal, Volume 258—NO. 37 Wednesday, August 22, 2017. Insurance issues often influence the outcome...
This article was published in Law360 on June 23, 2017 by partners Philip Silverberg, William Wilson, and former associate Andrew Rice. This is part 2 of this article. You can find the first part here. On March 25, 2015, the district court issued an...
This article was published in Law360 on June 22, 2017 by partners Philip Silverberg, William Wilson, and former associate Andrew Rice. Corrosion exclusions have been commonplace in first-party property insurance policies for decades, as evidenced by the...
If you could count on anything, it would be that our partner, Dan Markewich, would spend at least a few minutes at each monthly partner meeting talking about the Mound Cotton Newsletter. The Newsletter was something he took pride in, often reminding the...
Property insurance policies, like other insurance policies, contain an overall limit of liability, which is the maximum amount that the insurance company will pay for any given loss. In addition to an overall limit, policies may also contain “sublimits”...
This article was originally published by Bloomberg Law on May 17, 2017. Lawyers who maintain active social media presences should be aware of two recent opinions by ethics committees in New York discussing the extent to which lawyers’ postings on the...
This article was originally published by Business Insurance on March 6, 2017. As more businesses come to realize that cyber attacks pose a serious threat to business operations, revenue streams and contingency planning, the market is starting to expand...
This article accompanied a presentation Partner Jonathan Gross gave at the Defense Research Institute’s “Insurance Coverage and Claims Institute Seminar” on April 7, 2016 in Chicago. To read the full article, please click below. The article was also...
