Andrew N Bourne

September 27, 2022 | Insurance Coverage Law Center

Because criminal matters proceed at a more rapid pace than civil matters, it is necessary to be proactive in assessing your professional liability policy.

By Andrew N. Bourne, Esq.

6 minute read

October 11, 2019 | New York Law Journal

The First Department issued a clear decision that policyholders may recover the consequential damages, including attorney fees, caused by the bad-faith dilatory practices all too often employed by insurance companies.

By Andrew N. Bourne and Joshua L. Blosveren

7 minute read

September 20, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Jared Zola, a partner at Dickstein Shapiro, and Andrew N. Bourne, an associate with the firm, write that a D&O insurer may contend that a mere subpoena received from a governmental entity does not constitute a "claim" within the meaning of a D&O policy. However, the policy language is quite varied from insurer to insurer and insured to insured.

By Jared Zola and Andrew N. Bourne

10 minute read

December 30, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Dickstein Shapiro's Jared Zola, Jeffrey L. Schulman and Andrew N. Bourne review a Southern District case arising out of a tragic crane collapse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in May 2008 that reaffirmed that, absent a showing by the insurer that a construction loss is attributable to the insured builder's negligent work, a "faulty workmanship exclusion" will not bar coverage.

By Jared Zola, Jeffrey L. Schulman and Andrew N. Bourne

6 minute read

April 06, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Jared Zola and Andrew N. Bourne of Dickstein Shapiro discuss how the natural disasters in Japan tie in with the recent Park Electrochemical decision and its importance in establishing coverage under a domestic all-risk property policy for an insured's economic loss incurred as a result of its foreign supplier's inability to deliver goods.

By Jared Zola and Andrew N. Bourne

7 minute read