August 22, 2024
Phoenix Insurance Co. reached a contingent settlement with a Georgia-based mineral products company in litigation seeking to force the insurer to defend the company against an underlying suit claiming it supplied asbestos-containing talc products.
July 18, 2024
A Georgia federal judge declined to grant a win to a mineral products company trying to compel a Travelers unit to defend it against an underlying suit claiming that it supplied asbestos-containing talc products.
January 01, 2024
Federal and state appeals courts provided general liability insurance practitioners with a handful of thought-provoking rulings in coverage disputes involving some hotly debated issues. Here, Law360 takes a look at the biggest rulings from the second half of 2023.
October 27, 2023
A Travelers unit can't escape a mining and mineral production company's bid for coverage of an underlying suit claiming the company supplied asbestos-containing talc products, a Georgia federal court ruled, finding that the policy doesn't unambiguously exclude claims merely alleging the presence of asbestos.
March 27, 2023
A Travelers unit must defend a mining and mineral production company against a man's claims that the talc the company supplied as part of two medical operations he underwent contained asbestos and caused his mesothelioma, the company told a Georgia federal court.