It’s late afternoon when the partner that you report to drops a file on your desk and informs you that the client needs an answer by the end of business tomorrow. The client is an excess insurer that wrote an umbrella insurance policy for a chain...

Paying bills used to be so complicated, and so filled with the unknown. An insurance premium was past due and the insurer had sent a notice of cancellation. The insured wrote a check, stuck a stamp on an envelope, took it to the post office, and hoped that...

Earlier this year I discussed the companion cases of Bi-Economy Mkt., Inc. v. Harleysville Ins. Co. of N.Y. , 886 N.E.2d 127 (N.Y. 2008), and Panasia Estates, Inc. v. Hudson Ins. Co. , 886 N.E.2d 135 (N.Y. 2008), in which the New York Court of Appeals...

The federal judge who has presided over much of the September 11th World Trade Center litigation issued an important decision last month, In re September 11 Litig. , 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73223 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 13, 2009), concerning the plaintiff lessee of...

Just starting out in the Health Care Law field? A basic knowledge of the terms of art is key to impressing your client or managing partner with your ability to handle Health Care Law matters competently. Read on for a quick primer!   Self-referral...

Aimed at a diverse and sophisticated market consisting of law firm attorneys, in-house counsel, and health care administrators, health care law is highly regulated at both the federal and the state level. Health care law governs health care providers (such...

In a recent Emerging Issues Analysis, Certified Structured Settlement Consultant Teddy Snyder shared her expert advice on why, when, and how parties to a workers' compensation case should settle. The author writes: Unlike liability cases that have...

This commentary provides a state-by-state survey of key workers' compensation legislation from June to December 2008. Governors in California, Hawaii, New York, and South Carolina provided an extra level of action related to workers compensation law. Things...

Workers' compensation is a mechanism for providing cash-wage benefits and medical care to victims of work-connected injuries and for placing the cost of these injuries ultimately on the consumer through the medium of insurance, the premiums for which are...

Launched on Lexis.com in December 2007, New Appleman Premium Online Checklists is a stand-alone online premium checklist product that supplements the master checklists included in the New Appleman Practice Guide that also launched in December 2007. ...

The New Appleman Insurance Law Practice Guide packs an unprecedented wealth of procedural guidance, analysis, and strategic insights in three convenient volumes. Focusing on the day-to-day needs of practitioners, this one-of-a-kind resource:  ...

It’s constantly growing to meet your expanding workload. But you never have to look beyond the Insurance Practice Center to find the facts you need :   • Case law, statutes, administrative codes and rules • CFR, insurance...