The United States District Court for the Central District of California, applying California law, has held that a D&O insurer cannot rely on an excess ‘other insurance’ provision to preclude a duty to defend.
The insurer of the tractor-trailer truck whose driver, according to state police, caused a 59-vehicle pileup on Interstate 80 in December 2019 wants all claims from the crash resolved in federal court.
The construction industry is a key contributor to California’s economy. According to the Associated General Contractors of America, in 2019, the construction sector contributed $118.1 billion of the state’s total gross domestic product.
A ‘Friends’ reunion; a ‘Sopranos’ prequel movie; Brittany Spears—pop culture from the early 2000s has made a comeback. Unfortunately something far less enjoyable from that era may also be finding its way back into our lives: mold litigation.
Businesses that operate brick-and-mortar storefronts are likely well aware of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act and its prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability in places of public accommodation.
Construction-defect claims can range from the mundane to the outlandish. It doesn’t matter whether the focus of a defect claim is a skyscraper, commercial building, or single-family home, the cases really are not that much different at their core in getting to the root cause of the defect.
The growing number of costly lawsuits are adversely impacting insurer profitability and their ability to provide coverage, according to panelists who convened last week at the Insurance Information Institute’s (Triple-I) Joint Industry Forum (JIF).
In its recently released annual report, the ATRA identified 8 jurisdictions on its 2021 hellholes list – which, in order, include: (1) California (with the plaintiffs’ bar taking advantage of unique California laws like the Private Attorney General Act); (2) New York City (particularly regarding Americans With Disabilities Act accessibility claims and an activist attorney general battling climate change with energy companies), (3) Georgia....
According to Arbitration Forums, Inc.’s website, the 5,200 members who subscribe to Arbitration Forums file over 949,000 disputes and nearly 1.7 million subrogation demands worth more than $13.9 billion in claims annually.
As part of the larger trend of invasion of privacy claims asserted by employees or consumers against businesses, several states have recently passed legislation that sets forth requirements for the collection, storing and dissemination of biometric information such as fingerprints, voice recordings and even keystroke patterns.
Social inflation continues to drive the rising cost of insurance claims, translating into premium increases for many industries. But what is to blame for this persisting trend in high jury awards?
The NFL is seeking more than $1 billion from its insurers to cover the cost of the class-action concussion settlement, the insurance firms disclosed in recent court documents.
More than 300 lawsuits totaling a staggering $3 billion have been filed over the Astroworld disaster on November 5 that ultimately claimed the lives of ten people.
Having clear policy wording is one component of the ‘social’ part of environmental-social-governance (ESG) practices, suggests senior official with Canada’s financial services regulator.
