Jennifer Morinigo | April 22, 2021 | Liability Insurance
In late 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit certified to the Supreme Court of Georgia three questions of Georgia law relating to a lawsuit brought in federal district court by Fife Whiteside, the trustee of the bankruptcy estate of Bonnie...
Jennifer Morinigo | February 23, 2021 | Liability Insurance
In its Decision and Order on Cross-Motions for Summary Judgment (2021 WL 681119), the District Court of Maine was presented with the issue of when a duty to defend terminates. The court looked to Section 18 of Restatement of the Law, Liability...
Lauren Klosinski | November 24, 2020 | Liability Insurance
A Law360 article discusses a recent case in which a Minnesota dental office argued that “more courts across the country have rejected insurers’ bids to dismiss COVID-19 business interruption suits for policies without a virus exclusion.” The dentist cited data...
Lauren Klosinski | November 3, 2020 | Liability Insurance
Tom Baker of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is the creator of the Covid Coverage Litigation Tracker (CCLT), which provides empirical research on insurance disputes and resolutions during the pandemic. The CCLT is Insurance Law Analytics’ first...
Jay M. Feinman | September 17, 2020 | Liability Insurance
ABSTRACTAt its 2018 Annual Meeting, The American Law Institute completed nearly a decade’s worth of work on the Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance. The Restatement’s approval was deferred for a year from the 2017 Annual Meeting, largely because of opposition...