By Barry Zalma, Attorney and Consultant Insurance is a contract of personal indemnity and does not follow the title in the land. When parties enter into lease agreements of real or personal property both the lessor and lessee have an insurable interest... Read More
The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (“WVSCA”) recently rejected a circuit court decision finding that a tenant is an “equitable insured” under his landlords’ homeowner’s policy, which had precluded the landlords’... Read More
The Fall 2011 issue of the New Appleman on Insurance; Current Critical Issues in Insurance Law quarterly features three articles on the cutting edge of insurance law: • On the Cusp of Change: the Intersection of Social Media and Insurance ... Read More
By Steven A. Freeman, Stephen V. Masterson, Philip M. Midgen, and Ann E. Miller, Attorneys, Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP This chapter addresses the unique elements of title insurance, the scope of coverage under title policies... Read More
By Daniel W. Gerber, Jeffrey L. Kingsley and Fallyn B. Reichert, Attorneys, Goldberg Segalla LLP Chapter 71 provides a thorough introduction to reinsurance and its commercial purposes; the operation of reinsurance contracts; and certain fundamental... Read More
New Appleman Premium Online Checklists - § 34.01 Checklist: Determining Parties and Insurable Interests to Life Insurance Policies , is one of the 200 coverage checklists in New Appleman Premium Online Checklists. This online checklist gives step... Read More
By David B. Goodwin, P. Benjamin Duke, and R. Gregory Rubio This chapter provides an introduction to the basic contours of the law applicable to policies of commercial property insurance and the fundamental considerations that commercial businesses... Read More
The article is "Illicit Life Settlements" by Michael Lovendusky. The article addresses the systematic acquisition and transfer of life insurance policies to investors without insurable interest in the insureds' lives is a controversial activity... Read More
By Stephan Leimberg and Howard Zaritsky In a case certified to it by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the highest court in New York held in a 5-2 decision that New York's insurable interest rules didn't prohibit an insured from... Read More
The Law of Life and Health Insurance - § 2.07[9] Investor Initiated Life Insurance ("IILI") , is a section that was recently added to Chapter 2 "Insurable Interest" of The Law of Life and Health Insurance by Bertram Harnett and... Read More
By Barry Zalma, Attorney and Consultant It is the essence of insurance that for insurance to exist the person insured must have an insurable interest in the property or life insured. Life insurance insurable interest can be defined as an interest... Read More
By Steven A. Freeman, Stephen V. Masterson, Philip M. Midgen, and Ann E. Miller, Attorneys, Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP This chapter addresses the unique elements of title insurance, the scope of coverage under title... Read More