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Terrorism Risk Insurance 2010: Marsh survey reveals more than 60 percent of organizations bought coverage in 2009

By GC Capital Ideas.com Despite an ever-changing terrorism risk insurance market, businesses from every industry sector continue to purchase coverage - more than 60 percent of organizations surveyed by Marsh bought coverage in 2009. This report provides...

Published Tue, Aug 24 2010 5:06 PM by LexisNexis Insurance Law Community Staff

Filed under: insurance coverage, terrorism, fire insurance, captive insurers, endorsements, Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act, political violence, terrorism risk insurance
California Appellate Court Rejects Insurer’s Attempt to Apply Multiple Self-Insured Retentions To a Single Lawsuit

By Erica Villanueva, Associate, Farella Braun + Martel In Clarendon America Insurance Company v. North American Capacity Insurance Company , E048176, 4th Dist. Ct. App. (Super. Ct. No. CIVRS701868), a new California Court of Appeal decision, the Fourth...

Published Fri, Jul 23 2010 12:01 PM by Erica Villanueva

Filed under: insurance coverage, general liability insurance, ambiguity, occurrence, self-insured retentions
Big Burd: New Jersey Supreme Court Issues Rare Duty to Defend Decision

By Randy Maniloff, Partner, White and Williams LLP Garden State Maintains its Duty to Depend Standard. What do New Jersey’s duty to defend and favorite son have in common? They both did it their way. * * * New Jersey’s duty to defend is unique...

Published Tue, Jul 20 2010 4:46 PM by Randy J. Maniloff

Filed under: Duty to Defend, insurance coverage, homeowners insurance, insurance policy exclusion, reservation of rights, controlled substances exclusion
Are Costs Of Cleaning Up Radioactive Contamination Covered?

By Rene Siemens, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP For decades, insurers have denied coverage for the costs of investigating and cleaning up radioactive contamination. Insurers insist that such costs are excluded from coverage. Their position...

Published Wed, Jun 30 2010 1:58 PM by Rene L. Siemens

Filed under: insurance coverage, pollution exclusion, environmental cleanup, comprehensive general liability, American Nuclear Insurers, nuclear liability insurance, radioactive contamination, nuclear energy hazard, CGL, nuclear exclusions
California Insureds Should Question the “Conventional Wisdom” Regarding Coverage for Wage and Hour Class Actions

By Erica Villanueva, Associate, Farella Braun + Martel Employment Practices Liability ("EPL") insurers have been aggressive in denying coverage for "wage and hour" class actions filed in California and elsewhere. Indeed, insureds now...

Published Wed, Jun 23 2010 6:34 PM by Erica Villanueva

Filed under: Duty to Defend, insurance coverage, insurance exclusions, class actions, Employment Practices Liability, FLSA, duty to indemnify, Fair Labor Standards Act, wages, minimum wages, overtime
Appeals Court Rules Umbrella Carrier Must Defend Insured

By Amanda Hairston, Associate, Farella Braun + Martel In what appears to be the first published California decision on the issue, the Second District Court of Appeal recently held that a carrier must defend its insured when the claim may not be covered...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 7:42 AM by Amanda Hairston

Filed under: Duty to Defend, insurance coverage, primary insurance, self insured, umbrella insurance, first dollar defense, excess coverage
CaseWatch: Insurance – Decisions from The Insurance and Reinsurance Report – June 3, 2010

Additional Insureds James McHugh Constr. Co. v. Zurich Am. Ins. Co. 2010 Ill. App. LEXIS 318 [ lexis.com / lexisONE ] (Ill. Ct. of App., April 13, 2010) Employee Exclusion Applies to Additional Insured A general contractor sought additional insured coverage...

Published Sat, Jun 19 2010 1:05 PM by Daniel W. Gerber and Sarah J. Delaney

Filed under: Bad Faith, Duty to Defend, Additional Insured, insurance coverage, occurrences, uninsured motorist, automobile insurance, insurance policies, environmental insurance, Professional liability insurance, fraud, commercial general liability, triggers
Expect Gulf Oil Slick Claims to be Extensive and Impact Multiple Lines of Business

By Marc Lanzkowsky, Founder and Principal, Lanzko Consulting, Inc. As the losses in the gulf continue to rise, the true claims impact has yet to unfold I don’t think the insurance industry has felt the true brunt of the horrific events of the April...

Published Fri, Jun 18 2010 8:51 AM by Marc Lanzkowsky

Filed under: Insurance Claims, Damages, insurance coverage, pollution exclusion, excess insurance, reinsurance, environmental cleanup, oil pollution, Oil spill, insurance exclusions, business interruption, environmental insurance, Deepwater Horizon, BP, property insurance, catastrophe, financial loss, pollution insurance, environmental liability, directors & officers, oil rig explosion, Gulf Oil spill, shareholders derivative action, economic loss, pollution coverage
Insurance Coverage Issues for Third-Party Businesses and Municipalities with Losses Due to the Oil Rig Explosion in the Gulf of Mexico

By Selena Linde, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP An explosion at the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010 left eleven workers dead. Each day since the explosion occurred, approximately 210,000 gallons of oil have spilled...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 2:29 PM by Selena Linde

Filed under: Environmental Claims, insurance coverage, oil pollution, Oil spill, business interruption, environmental insurance, BP, natural disasters, catastrophe, environmental liability
World Cup Insurance Estimated at Over 6 Billion Pounds

According to an estimate provided by Lloyd’s of London, over £6.2 billion worth of insurance coverage has been purchased by individuals and entities in connection with the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which begins today. Over half of that amount is...

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 4:32 PM by InsureReinsure: The Insurance-Reinsurance Blog

Filed under: insurance coverage, World Cup
Insurers Encourage Green Building

Insurers and regulators are addressing Green Building issues at breakneck speed. With state regulators approving new policy endorsements and insurers offering Green Building discounts, insuring properties that are “green” is here to stay....

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 12:45 PM by InsureReinsure: The Insurance-Reinsurance Blog

Filed under: insurance coverage, LEED, insurance discounts, green buildings
Insurers Fighting Among Themselves Over Montrose and First Manifestation Endorsements

By Randy Maniloff, Partner, White and Wlliams LLP Cain Casualty Company v. Abel Accident & Indemnity Company Insurers sometimes confront accusations that they conspired to do some harm against the public or even their own policyholders. For example...

Published Wed, Jun 9 2010 4:52 PM by Randy J. Maniloff

Filed under: insurance coverage, First Manifestation Endorsements, Montrose Endorsement, insurance policy exclusions
Coverage Implications Related to the Eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano

By Costantino Suriano, Hilary Henkind, Frank DeAngelis, Frank Montbach, and Marc Haas, Attorneys, Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass On March 20, 2010, after almost 200 years of silence, the Eyjafjallajokull volcano located in southern Iceland erupted...

Published Wed, Jun 9 2010 6:47 AM by Suriano, Henkind, DeAngelis, Montbach, Haas

Filed under: insurance coverage, business interruption, volcano, airlines, ash plumes
National Disasters Implicate Property and Casualty Claims

By Robert Hille, Partner, Kalison, McBride, Jackson & Murphy, P.A. The World Trade Center attack, Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill – three national disasters implicating coverage under several types of property and casualty policies...

Published Tue, Jun 8 2010 2:37 PM by Robert B. Hille

Filed under: insurance coverage, insurance regulation, Oil spill, natural disasters, earthquakes, terrorism, hurricanes, property and casualty insurance
"Insurance Coverage for Intellectual Property and Cybersecurity Risks."

By Scott Godes, Counsel, Dickstein Shapiro LLP. Can you think of many, or, in fact, any, companies that are risk free when it comes to the areas of intellectual property or cybersecurity? If you represent companies with risks relating to intellectual...

Published Wed, May 19 2010 5:31 PM by Scott Godes

Filed under: insurance coverage, New Appleman, liability insurance, intellectual property, advertising, cybersecurity