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- Policyholder Win Under Crime Policy for Social Engineering Scam
- Assault on the Citadel? The Texas Supreme Court Agrees to Reconsider the “Eight Corners Rule”
- Ain’t Going to Study War Exclusions No More... Or Are We? Universal Cable Productions LLC v. Atlantic Specialty Ins. Co. (9th Cir., July 12 2019)
- Federal Court Rejects Effort to Skirt a Policy’s Claims-Made-and-Reported Requirement
- A Word to the Wise About Concurrent Causation
- Do TCPA Claims Trigger CGL Coverage? The California Supreme Court Agrees to Decide
- All Stop: Ruling on the Applicability of Exclusion to BIPA Claims Delayed
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Assault on the Citadel? The Texas Supreme Court Agrees to Reconsider the “Eight Corners Rule”
Insurance practitioners in Texas are familiar with the so-called “eight corners rule” applied by Texas Courts to determine whether an insurer has a duty to defend a suit against its insured. The “eight corners rule” is simply summarized: Read More ›
Ain’t Going to Study War Exclusions No More... Or Are We? Universal Cable Productions LLC v. Atlantic Specialty Ins. Co. (9th Cir., July 12 2019)
Many insurance policies contain a “war exclusion,” which states that there is no coverage for loss resulting from “war,” “warlike action by a military force,” or “insurrection, rebellion, [or] revolution.” Does the exclusion apply when a militant faction—specifically Hamas—shoots rockets into an area where the insured is conducting activities? Read More ›
A Word to the Wise About Concurrent Causation
Hurricane Season 2019 is upon us as of June 1. NOAA’s crystal ball predicts an “average” hurricane season this year; to NOAA, “average” means “a likely range of 9 to 15 named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher), of which four to eight could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including two to four major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5; with winds of 111 mph or higher).”[1] By comparison, NOAA predicted that 2018, which produced Hurricane Michael, the first Cat 5 hurricane to come ashore in the continental U.S. since 1992, would be “near or above-normal.”[2] And 2017 produced Harvey, Irma, Maria and Nate. Read More ›