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DWF Nabs 13-Lawyer Team For New U.K. Base

The proposed base is set to be the first launched under the leadership of Sir Nigel Knowles.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Recent 11th Circuit Case May Impact COVID-19 Litigation

The restaurant Berries of the Grove in Miami boasts Belgian waffles, steak and Nutella pizza on its online menu. However, its name may now become center stage for arguments in COVID-19 litigation.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Presence of Coronavirus at a Business May Not Result in Property Damage

Understandably, businesses are looking at ways to stem the tide of mounting losses and are looking to their all-risk insurance policies for help. Most of these claims, however, have been or likely will be denied and, as a result, hundreds of businesses all over the country are filing lawsuits against their insurance carriers.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

PPP Loan Insurance: An Introduction and Overview

In their column on Corporate Insurance Law, Howard B. Epstein and Theodore A. Keyes are joined by Peter de Boisblanc to discuss insuring PPP funds, because businesses that received PPP funds face the risk of an SBA challenge to their eligibility to retain the funds without a repayment obligation.
10 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Court Refuses to Dismiss COVID-Related Business Interruption Claims

A New Jersey state court recently rejected an insurer's claim that COVID-related losses cannot qualify as covered losses.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Aiming Straight for the Source, Client Sues His Lawyer's Insurance Carrier for Legal Malpractice

Client James Irwin sued his ex-attorneys and their insurer, Texas Lawyers Insurance Exchange, alleging the insurer's advice to "do nothing" on a legal malpractice claim caused him to miss the deadline under the statute of limitations.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Post-'Gallagher,' Lancaster Court Blocks Insurer's Denial of UIM Coverage

"Examining the unambiguous statutory language in conjunction with the household vehicle exclusion," Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas President Judge David Ashworth wrote, "the court finds that such policies operate to 'strip an insured of default UM/UIM coverage without requiring an insurer to demonstrate, at a bare minimum, that the insured was even aware that the exclusion was part of the policy.'"
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Can the Regular-Use Exclusion Withstand an Attack From the Plaintiffs Bar?

Until recently the regular use exclusion, typically found in most automobile insurance policies had been routinely upheld, for decades, in every state and federal court decision as a valid exclusion under Pennsylvania's Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law [MVFRL].
12 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Insurance Companies Are Hunting for Top Talent to Meet COVID-19, Natural Disaster Demands

"A lot of companies will prefer to have someone who does have an insurance industry background, but I know of many companies that have hired someone who has never worked in the industry before but is used to the interplay between government regulators and lawyers," Michael Sachs, a partner at Major, Lindsey & Africa in Chicago, said.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

How Employment Practices Insurance Policies Are Responding to COVID-19

A recent increase in coronavirus-related employment practices lawsuits has put employment practices liability insurance (EPLI) in the spotlight. This escalation of litigation may come as a shock to the countless employers that willingly sacrificed profits to keep employees safe and employed, but it is not entirely unexpected.
5 minute read

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