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New York Insurance Coverage Law Update
March 27, 2024 | Insurance Coverage

Third Department Upholds Summary Judgment to Insurer Based on Material Misrepresentation by Insured in Insurance Application

Plaintiff loaned money to his employee to purchase a home, and the loan was secured by a mortgage. When the employee failed to pay the loan and to insure the home, Plaintiff obtained a landlord package policy from

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Insurance Update
March 19, 2024 | Insurance Coverage

Our March Insurance Update is now available.

We begin with three state supreme court decisions answering these questions:

  • A year before an insured bought its claims-made policy it received an attorney’s letter threatening mass tort litigation. The first suits were filed when the claims-made policy was in effect. Is the claims-made policy triggered? The Delaware Supreme Court decides if
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New York Insurance Coverage Law Update
February 28, 2024 | Insurance Coverage

New York’s Highest Court Holds That Restaurants’ Business Losses from Coronavirus Not Covered

The insured, Consolidated Restaurant Operations, a company that owns and operates dozens of restaurants, obtained a commercial property policy from Westport Insurance Company. Subject to certain exclusions, the policy covered “all risks of direct physical loss or damage to insured property” and

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Insurance Update
February 23, 2024 | Insurance Coverage

In this month’s insurance update, we address:

  • Whether opioid suits allege an occurrence
  • Whether the recurring presence of wild turkeys is “infestation”
  • Whether improper copying of an industry publication was in the performance of professional services
  • Whether wildfire dust is a “pollutant”
  • Whether an aircraft exclusion applies to a partially disassembled plane
  • And whether
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COVID Biz Interruption Coverage Denied by NY Court of Appeals
February 20, 2024 | Insurance Coverage

On February 15, 2024, the New York Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the Appellate Division, First Department decision affirming dismissal of restaurant operator Consolidated Restaurant Operations, Inc.’s (CRO) complaint against Westport Insurance Corp. seeking COVID-19 business interruption coverage.

The Court’s affirmance continues New York’s well-settled approach to contract interpretation, which demands that all contracts –

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New York Insurance Coverage Law Update
January 30, 2024 | Insurance Coverage

Second Circuit Holds That Malpractice Insurer Has No Duty to Defend or to Indemnify Lawyer Because Of Business Enterprise Exclusion

 Associated Industries Insurance Company sued its insureds, a lawyer, and his former law firm, seeking a declaration that it had no duty to defend or to indemnify an underlying lawsuit brought by their former client.

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New York Insurance Coverage Law Update — Compilation 2023
January 30, 2024 | Insurance Coverage

Please click the link below to view the New York Insurance Coverage Law Update – Compilation 2023.

New York

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Insurance Update
January 23, 2024 | Insurance Coverage

In our January insurance update, we include three state cases addressing some less common situations.

It’s not often that a pollution exclusion is interpreted in the context of an auto policy.  But the South Dakota Supreme Court considered whether the exclusion barred a claim arising from a contaminated wheat delivery.

Village officials made it very

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NY Court of Appeals Hears Oral Argument on COVID-19 Business Interruption Case
January 16, 2024 | Insurance Coverage

On January 10, the New York Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on a COVID-19 coverage appeal by a restaurant operator, Consolidated Restaurant Operations, Inc. (CRO), which posed issues of first impression. Courts nationwide are looking to see how New York’s highest court will decide the case.

The case before the Court of Appeals stems

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The Title Reporter: A Legal Update for the Title Insurance Industry
January 8, 2024 | Real Estate, Zoning & Land Use | Insurance Coverage

Here is what we cover in this issue of Title Insurance Update Winter 2024:

  • The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, affirming a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, has ruled that Standard Exclusion 3(a) of a title insurance policy precluded coverage of fees and costs
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