New York State Finalizes Changes to Insurance Disclosure Law

The amended statute clearly places the onus on defendants to proactively address insurance coverage matters. Defense counsel can no longer wait for plaintiffs to pursue the issue and respond as necessary.

While New Biometric Privacy Laws Have Led to Widespread Litigation and Large Settlements, Most Courts Have Held That Insurance Covers These Claims

Across the United States, legislatures are passing new biometric privacy laws with potentially onerous fines, making businesses who collect biometric information, and the insurance companies that sell policies to those companies, understandably nervous.

An Insurer’s Ongoing Battle To Limit Disputable Discovery

Proactively limiting discovery, or shielding information, may not be an effort to hide such information from a litigant, but necessary to avoid irrelevant information from impacting a motion for summary judgment or more importantly, a jury’s decision.

The ‘Related Claims’ Provision in Insurance Coverage Disputes

These provisions can play a pivotal role in the amount of coverage available for a given claim or claim(s) and can determine whether “claims” trigger multiple policy years or instead, whether those “claims” trigger only a single policy year.

Supply Chain Woes Bring Contingent Business Interruption Recovery—and Its Limitations—Into Sharp Focus

The article examines the potential limitations of CBI coverage and the practical challenges of litigating CBI claims. It also discusses ways to draft stronger CBI policies and the growing popularity of other types of insurance in response to global supply chains that are increasingly reliant on just-in-time sourcing and that continue to be aggravated by recent disasters.

Call to Action: Modernizing the ‘War Exclusion’ for the 21st Century

Many prudent businesses are revisiting their insurance portfolio, seeking confirmation that their coverage will adequately protect them if they are victimized by increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, including those connected to the acute conflict in Ukraine.

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