VOLUME 1 COVERAGE ANALYSIS AND PRELITIGATION PROCEDURES

Chapter 1 Introduction to Insurance
Chapter 2 Insurance Agent and Broker Liability
Chapter 3 Reading Insurance Policies
Chapter 4 Analyzing Insurance Policies
Chapter 5 Applying Doctrines to Override Policy Interpretation Principles
Chapter 6 Understanding Bad Faith
Chapter 7 Researching Insurance Coverage
Chapter 8 Assessing Insurance Coverage
Chapter 9 Determining the Duties of the Insured
Chapter 10 Tendering the Claim
Chapter 11 Determining the Insurer's Response
Chapter 11A Considering the Duty to Defend
Chapter 12 Adjusting and Handling Insurance Claims
Chapter 13 [Reserved]

VOLUME 2 COVERAGE LITIGATION

Chapter 14 Initiating Insurance Coverage Litigation
Chapter 15 Drafting the Complaint
Chapter 16 Managing the Relationship Between the Coverage Case and Underlying Litigation
Chapter 17 Drafting the Answer and Affirmative Defenses
Chapter 18 Determining Whether to File Pre-Discovery Motions
Chapter 19 Applying Attorney-Client and Work Product Privileges
Chapter 20 Conducting Discovery
Chapter 21 Expert Witness Discovery
Chapter 22 Determining Whether to File Motions for Summary Judgment and Summary Adjudication
Chapter 23 Settling Insurance Coverage Disputes
Chapter 24 Considerations Involved in Settlement of the Underlying Case
Chapter 25 Considering Alternative Dispute Resolution
Chapter 26 Strategies for Trial
Chapter 27 Post-Judgment Motions and Deciding Whether to Appeal
Chapter 28 Insurance Guaranty Fund Principles

VOLUME 3 SEPARATE INSURANCE LINES

Chapter 29 Spotting Issues in Particular Practice Areas
Chapter 29A Understanding Excess Insurance and Umbrella Coverage
Chapter 30 Understanding Liability Insurance
Chapter 30A Understanding Construction Insurance
Chapter 30B Understanding Product Liability Insurance
Chapter 31 Understanding Commercial Property Insurance
Chapter 32 Understanding Automobile Insurance
Chapter 33 Understanding Homeowner's Insurance
Chapter 34 Understanding Life Insurance
Chapter 35 Understanding Disability Insurance
Chapter 36 Understanding Title Insurance
Chapter 37 Understanding Directors' and Officers' Liability Insurance

VOLUME 4 SEPARATE INSURANCE LINES

Chapter 38 Understanding Errors and Omissions Insurance
Chapter 39 Understanding Multiple Insurer Situations
Chapter 40 Understanding Reinsurance
Chapter 41 Understanding Employment Practice Liability Insurance
Chapter 42 Understanding Environmental Insurance
Chapter 43 Understanding Personal Injury and Advertising Liability Coverage
Chapter 44 Understanding Intellectual Property Insurance
Chapter 45 Understanding Cyber Insurance Liability Coverage
Chapter 46 Understanding Marine Insurance
Chapter 47 Understanding Inland Marine Insurance
Appendices: Insurance Multi-Jurisdictional Surveys with Analysis
Appendix 1 "At Issue" Waiver of Attorney-Client Privilege
Appendix 2 Absolute Pollution Exclusion
Appendix 3 Allocation of Indemnity
Appendix 4 Absolute Pollution Endorsement
Appendix 5 Applicability of Anti-Concurrent Clauses to Losses
Appendix 6 Automobile Step-Down Provisions
Appendix 7 Choice of Law Rules
Appendix 8 Disqualification of Counsel Appointed by Insurer
Appendix 9 Duty to Defend–Proof by Extrinsic Evidence
Appendix 10 Expert Testimony in Insurance Litigation–Ambiguous Terms
Appendix 11 Extrinsic Evidence of Insurer's Duty to Defend\
Appendix 12 Horizontal or Vertical Exhaustion of Coverage
Appendix 13 Insurability of Punitive Damages
Appendix 14 "At Issue" Insured's Right to Independent Counsel
Appendix 15 Insurer's Right to Defend and Independent Counsel
Appendix 16 Intended or Expected Harm Policy Exclusion
Appendix 17 Late Notice
Appendix 18 Recoupment of Defense and Indemnity Costs
Appendix 19 Third-Party "Bad Faith" Claims
Appendix 20 The Doctrine of Reasonable Expectations
Appendix 21 Triggers of Liability Coverage Under Comprehensive General Liability Policies

Jeffrey E. Thomas

Jeffrey E. Thomas is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Dean Thomas graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 1983, and received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), in 1986. He is a member of the California State Bar, the American Bar Association, the Association of American Law Schools, and the Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Association. Dean Thomas is President of the Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, a Past Chair of the Insurance Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and has served in various leadership positions in the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section of the ABA. Dean Thomas is author of numerous articles on Insurance Law published in the United States and internationally. His work has been presented at academic and professional meetings throughout the U.S. and in Australia, China, Europe, Hong Kong, Korea, India, Taiwan, and Thailand. He is the co-author with Alan I. Widiss of the three-volume treatise "Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Insurance" published by LexisNexis, has been on the Editorial Board of the CGL Reporter, and is an Advisor to the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal. Dean Thomas previously served as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago, a Fulbright Fellow in China, and the Tiera M. Farrow Faculty Scholar at UMKC.

Martinez, Leo P.

Leo P. Martinez is Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Professor Martinez earned his B.S. in Physics at the University of Kansas in 1971 and his M.S. in Systems Analysis from the University of Southern California in 1975. Upon earning his law degree from Hastings in 1978, he met his military obligation by serving on active duty in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps after which he practiced law with the Howard Rice law firm in San Francisco. He joined the Hastings Faculty in 1985 and served as Academic Dean of the College from 1993 through 2005. At Hastings, Professor Martinez teaches Insurance Law, Contracts and Federal Income Tax. He is co-author of a text on Insurance Law and a text on Estate Planning for the Owners of Closely Held Corporations. He has published and lectured extensively on matters of insurance law, tax policy, and education administration. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and he is a past Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Insurance Law. Professor Martinez has also been active in the American Bar Association's (ABA) accreditation process and he currently serves as a member of the Nominations Committee of the ABA Section on Legal Education.

Douglas R. Richmond

Doug Richmond is Senior Vice President in the Professional Services Group of Aon Risk Services, the world's largest broker of insurance for professional services firms. Before joining Aon in Chicago, Mr. Richmond was a partner with Armstrong Teasdale LLP in Kansas City, Missouri (1989-2004), where he had a national trial and appellate practice. In 1998, he was named the nation's top defense lawyer in an insurance industry poll as reported in the publications Inside Litigation and Of Counsel. He is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), and the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC). Mr. Richmond has also been selected to The Best Lawyers in American the areas of legal malpractice, personal injury litigation, and railroad law. In 2003, the Euromoney Legal Media Group named him one of the nation's top insurance and reinsurance lawyers. He is the co-author of a leading treatise, Understanding Insurance Law (third ed. 2007), published by LexisNexis. Additionally, Mr. Richmond has published roughly 50 articles in university law reviews, and many more articles in other scholarly and professional journals. He teaches Legal Ethics at the Northwestern University School of Law and he is a regular National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) faculty member. He previously taught Trial Advocacy and Insurance Law at the University of Kansas School of Law, and Insurance Law and a seminar on Damages at the University of Missouri School of Law. Mr. Richmond earned his J.D. at the University of Kansas.

Mayerson, Marc S.

Marc S. Mayerson is a partner at Washington, D.C.'s Spriggs & Hollingsworth, www.spriggs.com, where he leads its nationwide practice representing corporate policyholders. In addition to his coverage litigation docket concerning asbestos, pharmaceuticals, and other losses, he authors the well-known insurance blog, www.insurancescrawl.com, recognized by The Wall Street Journal as the leading blog in the insurance industry. Mr. Mayerson recently was selected as one of the ten leading coverage lawyers in the nation's capital by The Legal Times and has been recognized in Chambers USA Leading Business Lawyers 2007 and the Euromoney Guide to the World's Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers. He also teaches the insurance law class at George Washington University law school, where he recently received an Award for Dedication in Teaching. He has published on numerous topics including settlement, defense, and bad faith; made numerous speeches and presentations in the US and Europe on insurance issues; and has trained professional mediators on insurance issues. He is a member of the American Bar Association's national Task Force on Insurance in Disasters and the Task Force on Federal Insurance Regulation Modernization; for the ABA also, he serves as Vice Chair of the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee of the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section. A graduate of the University of Michigan (with Highest Distinction, High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa in 1983) and Harvard Law School (magna cum laude in 1986), where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review. Mr. Mayerson clerked for The Honorable Stephen R. Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.