When viruses shut down ski operations at Canadian Mountain Holidays and Ontario’s Blue Mountain Resort in 2015 and 2018, Lexington Insurance Co. paid the resort owners $200,000 in business interruption claims.
One of the primary insurers of Irving-based Boy Scouts of America announced Tuesday that it has reached a tentative settlement agreement with the organization and with attorneys representing tens of thousands of men who say they were molested decades ago by scoutmasters and others.
The United States District Court for the District of Vermont has held that there is no coverage under a CGL and professional liability policy for all claims in an underlying suit brought against an insured residential care facility because all of the claims arose from professional services rendered by the facility that it knew or should have known could give rise to a claim.
Applying Washington law, a federal district court has held that an insured versus insured exclusion does not bar coverage for claims asserted by a member of an insured limited liability company.
Search ‘climate change and insurance’ on the internet, and there will be no lack of information on the intersection between global warming and property insurance.
Allstate has reached an agreement with a law firm to dismiss the latter’s proposed class-action lawsuit against the insurer – a lawsuit that accused Allstate of using unqualified expert witnesses in insurance litigation.
In an interesting case out of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, Lehigh Specialty Melting Inc. v. Workers Compensation Appeal Board, Lehigh appealed an order of the state’s Workers Compensation Appeal Board that would have caused the unwinding of an otherwise finalized workers’ compensation settlement agreement that included a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)-approved Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) with an injured worker.
Faced with thousands of lawsuits from local governments responding to the opioid epidemic, the makers, distributors, and suppliers of prescription painkillers have turned to their business insurance providers for help.
On August 16, 2021, the District Court for Clark County, Nevada, denied an insurance company’s motion to dismiss a property owner’s lawsuit seeking business interruption insurance coverage due to COVID-19.
Paramount sued its insurer on Monday for refusing to cover the vast majority of its losses due to pandemic-related shutdowns on ‘Mission: Impossible 7.’
Former Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak has been appointed to the Amicus Committee of the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, it was announced Monday.
Reversing a federal district court, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently applied the Texas eight-corners rule to hold that an insurer had a duty to defend a restaurant chain against claims the chain breached its contract with a credit card processor by not preventing hackers from gaining access to its customers’ private information.
A wealthy Park Avenue cardiologist and his wife are having an art attack — because their insurance company refuses to reimburse them for $1.5 million in stolen artworks, according to new court papers.
