Cort T Malone

June 26, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Anderson Kill's Cort Malone and Kathleen Gatti spotlight a May 29 ruling from the Northern District of New York allowing a bad faith claim against an insurer to go forward, reaffirming policyholders' right to seek consequential damages when insurance companies unreasonably delay or deny claims.

By Cort T. Malone and Kathleen Gatti

7 minute read

May 20, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Across the United States, legislatures are passing new biometric privacy laws with potentially onerous fines, making businesses who collect biometric information, and the insurance companies that sell policies to those companies, understandably nervous.

By Cort T. Malone and Jade W. Sobh

11 minute read

December 04, 2019 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Vanderbilt filed a declaratory judgment action against several defendant insurance companies to settle insurance coverage disputes alleging injuries from exposure to industrial talc containing asbestos.

By Cort T. Malone and Maria Brinkmann

11 minute read

January 26, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Corporate deal lawyers had for many decades designed corporate acquisitions and divestitures on the long-held foundation that historical rights to insurance proceeds were freely assignable, and that the rights to the proceeds of liability insurance could freely follow the liabilities.

By William G. Passannante, Cort T. Malone and Bruce Strong

11 minute read

December 14, 2015 | New York Law Journal

William G. Passannante, Cort T. Malone and Bruce Strong of Anderson Kill write: The 2003 decision in 'Henkel Corp.' severely impeded companies involved in corporate acquisitions and divestitures by enforcing consent-to-assign clauses even though policy periods had expired and the right to insurance already had accrued. In 2015, California reversed course in 'Fluor' and restored the ability of corporations to freely assign the rights available under insurance policies after a loss.

By William G. Passannante, Cort T. Malone and Bruce Strong

11 minute read

December 11, 2015 | New York Law Journal

William G. Passannante, Cort T. Malone and Bruce Strong of Anderson Kill write: The 2003 decision in 'Henkel Corp.' severely impeded companies involved in corporate acquisitions and divestitures by enforcing consent-to-assign clauses even though policy periods had expired and the right to insurance already had accrued. In 2015, California reversed course in 'Fluor' and restored the ability of corporations to freely assign the rights available under insurance policies after a loss.

By William G. Passannante, Cort T. Malone and Bruce Strong

11 minute read

June 26, 2013 | Insurance Coverage Law Center

By Joshua Gold and Cort MaloneThe authors explain that before purchasing such insurance, it is important that companies examine what coverage they have…

By Cort T. Malone Joshua Gold

10 minute read