The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Joseph Grasso and Leah Mantei | July 27, 2021
As New York seeks to protect policyholders from insurers' bad-faith failure to settle valid claims, the recently proposed Senate Bill S6813 could significantly change the landscape of insurance law by codifying bad faith in claims settlements and unleash a flood of claims for "deceptive" conduct across the state.
By The Legal Intelligencer | July 27, 2021
In The Legal's Energy and Environmental Law supplement, read about the rising tide of litigation surrounding per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and a new program that aims to add fees to help manage storm water.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Gregory S. Capps, Sara C. Tilitz and Lynndon K. Groff | July 26, 2021
Policyholders are pursuing coverage for alleged PFAS-related exposures under several types of insurance policies, including commercial general liability, pollution liability and specialty, and first-party property policies.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Michael Kassak, Christopher Leise and Marc Penchansky | July 26, 2021
Since the pandemic struck last March, policyholders have sued insurance carriers nearly 2,000 times alleging their policies covered business losses due to COVID-19 and the related civil authority orders.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Courtney Horrigan, Dominic Rupprecht and Zachary Roman | July 26, 2021
The costs of responding to a government subpoena or investigative demand can be substantial. The broadly worded demands for information or testimony typically require burdensome searches through mountains of documents, data, and electronically stored information.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Kathleen P. Dapper and Daniel J. Twilla | July 26, 2021
In 2020, the Pennsylvania Superior Court confirmed that the UTPCPL does not apply to the handling of insurance claims, further reducing the emphasis on UTPCPL claims in insurance litigation.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Bonnie Allyn Barnett and Amy Waite | July 23, 2021
PFAS are a group of man-made chemicals that have been manufactured and used in a variety of industries since the 1940s. PFAS are persistent in the environment and the human body. Because of this persistence, PFAS are often termed "forever chemicals."
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Lindsay Brown | July 23, 2021
As the public awareness of PFAS grows, so too do the calls for legislatures and regulators to address PFAS releases into the environment.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Robert L. Collings | July 22, 2021
The cost of flood damage, the structures to manage or treat the toxicity of the discharges contributing to those floods, and perhaps increased storage if the rainfall is not being stored naturally by absorption.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Leslie M. Whitten | July 18, 2021
It will come as no surprise that privacy groups are highly involved in pushing this legislation through, or that business groups are interested in limiting liability as much as possible. Civil rights groups and trial lawyers have also become key constituents here. As a result, members of Congress will have many competing viewpoints in trying to pass a long-awaited, national privacy law.
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