Property Casualty Focus

In a non-precedential decision, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court’s grant of summary judgment to an errors and omissions insurer that declined to indemnify a settlement because the insured had settled the underlying lawsuit ...

We have previously discussed the requirements imposed on insurers by New York law to inform insureds seeking coverage for death or bodily injury to describe any disclaimer of coverage “with a high degree of specificity of the ground or grounds on which the ...

We previously described a proposed New Jersey bill that was introduced to the state assembly in March 2020 that would require insurers to cover business interruption losses related to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Almost a year later, the proposed bill has yet ...

Following a 2013 data breach in which the credit and debit card information of more than 110 million customers was stolen or exposed, Target Corp. sought coverage from its CGL insurers for $74 million that it incurred in settlements with various banks (the credit ...

Recoupment of defense costs (defense fees and costs) by insurers in the absence of a duty to indemnify under a liability policy is an unsettled issue in many states. In a recent decision, a New York intermediate appellate court held that even though there was no duty ...

An increasing number of state legislatures have recently introduced measures that would require the insurance industry to bear much of the burden of business interruption and other losses due to the economic downturn brought on by the global COVID-19 pandemic.

We previously described here proposed New Jersey legislation that would also compel coverage of business interruption claims based on COVID-19 losses. The New Jersey bill was voted out of the New Jersey Assembly’s Homeland Security and State Preparedness ...