Abuse Claim Influx Raises Insurance Woes For Calif. Schools
Legislation in California eliminated a number of claim prerequisites and the statute of limitations for childhood sexual assault survivors pursing litigation against public entities, but five years later insurance experts are sounding the alarm as to how this legislation has impacted public schools' ability to procure adequate liability coverage at a reasonable cost.
Q&A: Lawmaker Takes Aim At High Property Insurance Costs
Finding ways to make property insurance more affordable in New York is the intended outcome of a New York State Senate investigation into a crisis that's threatening to price people out of their communities, said the chair of the senate's insurance committee.
Why Del. Policyholders Should Heed CVS Opioid Claim Loss
The Delaware Supreme Court's refusal to reverse a lower court's ruling that CVS Corp. isn't owed coverage for government, hospital and third-party payer claims for economic losses related to the company's opioid dispensing practices marks a concerning turn for policyholders incorporated in the state, a policyholder attorney told Law360.
Abuse Claim Influx Raises Insurance Woes For Calif. Schools
Legislation in California eliminated a number of claim prerequisites and the statute of limitations for childhood sexual assault survivors pursing litigation against public entities, but five years later insurance experts are sounding the alarm as to how this legislation has impacted public schools' ability to procure adequate liability coverage at a reasonable cost.
Q&A: Lawmaker Takes Aim At High Property Insurance Costs
Finding ways to make property insurance more affordable in New York is the intended outcome of a New York State Senate investigation into a crisis that's threatening to price people out of their communities, said the chair of the senate's insurance committee.
Why Del. Policyholders Should Heed CVS Opioid Claim Loss
The Delaware Supreme Court's refusal to reverse a lower court's ruling that CVS Corp. isn't owed coverage for government, hospital and third-party payer claims for economic losses related to the company's opioid dispensing practices marks a concerning turn for policyholders incorporated in the state, a policyholder attorney told Law360.
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Two manufacturing companies involved in a long-running dispute over coverage for asbestos bodily injury claims have won $23 million from an Allianz unit for damages and interest, with a New York trial court fi... (more story)
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A Pittsburgh seating company is not entitled to coverage for more than $530,000 it lost in a computer phishing scheme, an insurer told a Pennsylvania state court, saying the payments made by the company's co-o... (more story)
Progressive Insurance systematically denied auto insurance coverage under an exclusion relating to vehicles not directly insured but still regularly used, two Pennsylvania residents told a Pennsylvania state c... (more story)
Insurance carriers for the Archdiocese of San Francisco urged a California bankruptcy court to reject a deal between the archdiocese and sexual abuse claimants to allow five lawsuits to proceed despite a Chapt... (more story)
A food service distributor isn't entitled to coverage of a nearly $7.5 million judgment entered against it in a suit over a collision involving one of its trucks and another driver, an insurer told a Connectic... (more story)
The Eleventh Circuit refused Monday to review its April finding that a jury should decide whether an insurer acted in bad faith by not settling an estate's claim over a fatal shooting that occurred at a Florida lodge.
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