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Coverage that focuses on both the legal risks facing insurance companies, as well as how companies are using insurance to hedge risk. We cover health insurance and cyber insurance frequently.
By The Legal Intelligencer | August 2, 2022
In The Legal's Insurance Law supplement, read about insuring intangible rights, increased scrutiny of auto policy exclusions, and more.
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By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | July 28, 2022
"We try to handle the kind of cases that will make a difference to a lot of people—not just our clients," said Darren Penn of Penn Law.
4 minute read
By Barry M. Miller and Elisabeth Gentile | July 28, 2022
Insurers who write cyber liability policies are well-equipped to manage cyber claims, but what about carriers and adjusters who face such claims under more traditional policies — also known as "Silent Cyber?" This article aims to help non-cyber risk adjusters who may have to oversee such a claim.
11 minute read
By Colleen Murphy | July 27, 2022
The New Jersey Appellate Division upheld a grant of summary judgment in favor of former attorney Harris Legome and his firm after Allstate alleged extensive misrepresentation in violation of the New Jersey Fraud Prevention Act and sought return of $1.1 million in legal fees.
4 minute read
By James C. Haggerty, Jeffrey Stanton and Dennis Coyne | July 27, 2022
Exclusions in auto policies in Pennsylvania have recently undergone increased scrutiny by the Courts. At the forefront of this re-evaluation is the household exclusion. That exclusion bars recovery of uninsured (UM) and underinsured (UIM) motorist benefits where the claimant sustained injury while operating a household vehicle insured on other policy, typically the personal auto/motorcycle situation.
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By Timothy P. Law | July 27, 2022
This article discusses the broad scope of Coverage B, particularly for violations of intangible rights and intentional torts, which many businesses (and their attorneys) incorrectly assume are uncovered.
8 minute read
By Kenneth E. Sharperson and Bradley A. (Brad) Baldwin | July 27, 2022
This article briefly discusses these policy conditions, which may not be well known to insureds, so that a coverage assessment is limited to the merits of a claim and not a failure to satisfy policy conditions.
9 minute read
By Colleen Murphy | July 27, 2022
An uninsured motorist claim brought in Morris County yielded a $750,000 settlement on June 13 for a man injured when a rock crashed through his windshield…
4 minute read
By Daniel J. Twilla and Kathleen P. Dapper | July 26, 2022
Pennsylvania bad-faith lawyers are all too familiar with the tortured history and anticlimactic outcome of the Berg v. Nationwide case. In part because of the issues before the court and in part because the Pennsylvania Supreme Court did not reach a majority disposition, Pennsylvania's highest court did not issue a binding, precedential decision in Berg—leaving for another day the question of an insurance company's duties when repairing a vehicle damaged in an accident.
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By Mark W. Tanner and Peter M. Newman | July 26, 2022
Third-party bad faith claims typically arise from a common fact pattern: an insured defendant, hit with an excess verdict because his insurer refused to make a reasonable settlement offer, assigns to the plaintiff the right to bring a bad faith claim against the insurer.
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