Nicholas M Insua

January 23, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal

Fundamental rules of New Jersey insurance law construction should be at the heart of every insurance coverage case, as demonstrated by the four leading cases construing New Jersey insurance law in 2019.

By Robert D. Chesler and Nicholas M. Insua

7 minute read

January 23, 2002 | Law.com

When wrestlers began to lose their grip on an adversary, they would "mend the hold" to reassert their position of strength. In the law, it is a situation in which a party to a contract gives one reason for non-performance, and later proffers a different reason for the same non-performance. With respect to insurance law, the time is ripe for courts and practitioners to return to this doctrine to ensure that insurance companies deal fairly with policyholders.

By Nicholas M. Insua

11 minute read

January 04, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

The mend-the-hold doctrine, as used in law, has been unheralded in Pennsylvania for nearly a century. Mend the hold was coined in wrestling. It was said that when wrestlers began to lose their grip on an adversary, they would mend the hold to reassert their position of strength.

By Nicholas M. Insua

11 minute read

February 05, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Richard P. Lewis and Nicholas M. Insua of Anderson Kill & Olick Write that almost all businesses carry business income insurance as part of their first-party property insurance program. Unfortunately, there has been a raft of recent decisions imposing a new condition on coverage: policyholders are only entitled to BI insurance if they have suffered a complete shutdown of all aspects of their business.

By Richard P. Lewis and Nicholas M. Insua

11 minute read