At the risk of stating the obvious, 2008 has been an historic and memorable year. From the historic presidential election, creating for many a new opportunity for hope, to the floods i ...

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R.C. Wegman Construction Co., a construction manager, was sued for injuries suffered by Brian Budrick, an employee of one of the contractors working at the site. The contractor’s po ...

As the world braces for a Swine Flu pandemic, the first concern of every business is the safety of their workers – and customers, if they’re in the hospitality industry or another ...

In Addison Ins. Co. v. Fay, 2009 Ill. LEXIS 176 (Ill. Jan. 23, 2009), the Supreme Court of Illinois unanimously held that the deaths of two boys constituted two separate occurrences because the insurer presented insuffic ...

In their commentary, Reed Smith LLP on the Limits of Insurance Coverage to compensate Victims of a Swine Flu Pandemic, James P. Davis, Richard P. Lewis and Noel C. Paul explain why insurance cannot be relied upon to meet the needs of many victims of a ...

Three years ago, when we faced a potential avian flu pandemic, many companies invested substantial resources determining how they would handle an epidemic or pandemic. Organizations recog ...

 

 

 

 

  The Office of General Counsel for the New York State Insurance Department (Department) recently rejected an insurance carrier’s proposed pol ...

INTRODUCTION

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed in an unpublished decision a district court’s holding that an insurer was entitled to rescind consecutive Employment Practices Liabili ...

The question of how many “occurrences,” as that term is used in commercial general liability (“CGL”) policies, transpired when one perpetrator has caused multiple injuries is quite significant in more than one respect. In ...