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By Alexander Lugo | April 17, 2024
Insurance work has shrunk as a consequence of the state's insurance crisis and recent legislative changes. But some firms are still hiring, betting that top lawyers will attract lucrative matters.
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By Abigail Adcox | April 17, 2024
Two Am Law 100 firms and several plaintiff firms have entered appearances. Observers expect more lawyers to enter as litigation and investigations mount.
5 minute read
By Alexander Lugo | April 11, 2024
"We have more work than ever because insurance companies are limiting the outside counsels they work with, and we continue to remain on that list," Bressler Amery executive committee member Hope Zelinger said.
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By Emily Cousins | April 10, 2024
The goal of the amendment was to "correct this inequity" found in the "Lenda" decision, the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association said in a letter to the Legislature's Insurance and Real Estate Committee.
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By Brian Lee | April 10, 2024
Noel Francisco, a former U.S. solicitor general, and partner-in-charge at Jones Day's Washington, D.C. office is set to argue on behalf of the coalition, while New York Assistant Solicitor General Laura Etlinger will argue for the New York State Department of Financial Services' 2017 regulation.
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By Emily Saul | April 9, 2024
The decision from Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Andrea Masley, of the Commercial Division, is a win for Bermuda-based insurance holding company James River Group Holdings. James River is represented by Debevoise & Plimpton.
2 minute read
By Alex Anteau | April 4, 2024
"I think that she should definitely be able to recover more than the amount of the judgment," said attorney Buck Rogers.
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By James C. Haggerty, Jeffrey Stanton and Dennis Coyne | April 4, 2024
While merely striking affirmative defenses that should not have been in the action in the first place may not be a sufficient deterrent to curb the filing of frivolous defenses, where the assertion of such baseless prophylactic defenses occurs in first party insurance litigation, such as uninsured (UM) or underinsured (UIM) motorist claims, it may result in much harsher repercussions.
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By John Bonnie and Steve Rapp | March 20, 2024
The Georgia direct-action statutes still provide a narrow exception to the otherwise strident rule that direct actions by a claimant against an allegedly liable insured cannot be maintained until there is a judgment against the insured, and Georgia, therefore, remains in a reported minority of just four states allowing direct actions in any context.
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By Linton Mann III and William T. Russell Jr. | March 19, 2024
The Court of Appeals recently clarified that insurance policies providing coverage for "direct physical loss or damage" to an insured's premises do not apply to business interruption losses sustained as a result of COVID-19 absent some actual, material alteration to those premises or a complete and persistent dispossession from the premises.
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