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Byline: David Donovan In any litigation, getting attorneys' fees from the other side is always a victory. In a case of first impression, a federal court has taken a South [...]

Byline: Tom Egan An insurance company did not breach its duty to defend by not affording two policyholders a legal defense against the state's criminal prosecutions of them on charges [...]

Byline: Eric T. Berkman An insurance company had a duty to defend a policyholder's landlord and franchisor against a personal injury suit brought by the policyholder's employee, a U.S. District [...]

Byline: Eric T. Berkman An insurance company was obligated to defend a recruiting agency against an invasion-of-privacy complaint brought by a former employee who claimed a supervisor had made explicit [...]

Byline: Tom Egan An insurance company's $250,000 settlement with a policyholder did not preclude it from having to pay a share of the $6 million in defense costs incurred by [...]

Byline: David E. Frank An insurance company's duty to defend a personal injury action was not negated by an insured's guilty plea to conduct in the same incident, the Supreme [...]

Byline: Elaine M. Pohl, Esq. Many liability insurance policies provide that the insurer has a duty to defend its insured for lawsuits seeking damages to which the insurance applies. When [...]

Byline: Paul Tharp North Carolina has joined a majority of jurisdictions that require a policyholder to provide actual notice to an insurer of a claim before a duty to defend [...]

Byline: Deborah Elkins With thousands of homeowners associations in Virginia, HOA horror stories are not hard to come by. When an association board squares off against an owner, the horror [...]

Byline: William C. Saturley Focus on Insurance Your professional liability insurer must defend you from claims, even those only tangentially related to your practice. Thank jurists such as Judge Learned [...]

Byline: Fred Horlbeck A New York insurer could not escape South Carolina jurisdiction in a dispute over an auto accident claim because the policy included a territory-of-coverage clause, the Court [...]

Byline: William C. Saturley and Joseph S. Callanan A former client sues you for malpractice. You notify your insurer, who promptly retains counsel to defend you. You begin to think [...]

Byline: Thomas E. Egan An insurance company could not be ordered to defend or indemnify a nightclub and its landlord in a negligence suit brought against them by a patron [...]

Byline: Alan Cooper The insurer of a painting company had a duty to defend and indemnify a day laborer who wrecked the company's van while driving drunk at night, a [...]

Byline: Timothy F. Casey, Esq. The typical context for a reservation of rights is an underlying third-party liability claim. Assume, for example, that a claimant files a lawsuit against a [...]

Byline: Timothy F. Casey, Esq. The typical context for a reservation of rights is an underlying third-party liability claim. Assume, for example, that a claimant files a lawsuit against a [...]

Byline: Deborah Elkins A business insurance carrier must defend an employer after a workplace shooting leads to a negligence action by the employee's estate. The Employer Liability exclusion - which [...]

Byline: Eric T. Berkman A decision from the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals categorizing a permeating odor as a "physical injury to property" could have significant implications for liability [...]

Byline: William C. Saturley and Joseph S. Callanan You've been sued for malpractice. You have lawyer's professional liability, or LPL, insurance. Your insurer retained counsel to defend you. In this [...]

Byline: William C. Saturley and Joseph S. Callanan You've been sued for malpractice. You have lawyer's professional liability, or LPL, insurance. Your insurer retained counsel to defend you. In this [...]

Byline: William C. Saturley and Joseph S. Callanan Risk-Free Business is an occasional feature intended as a guide for lawyers on the topic of professional liability insurance. A former client [...]

Byline: Gregory Drutchas and Adam B. Kutinsky A tripartite relationship among an insurance company, the insured and defense counsel is created when the insured reports a liability claim or lawsuit [...]

Byline: Alan Cooper This story starts out with a correction tape dispenser - one of those devices that releases a small piece of opaque tape that whites out errors on [...]

Byline: William C. Saturley and Joseph S. Callanan Risk-Free Business is an occasional feature intended as a guide for lawyers on the topic of professional liability insurance. As everyone else [...]

Byline: Gregory Froom A Spartanburg County woman whose insurer failed to answer a complaint in her auto accident case could get relief from an entry of default by showing she [...]