I added a new category today, Insurance Coverage Trials, as a place to collect useful tips, ideas and articles on trying insurance coverage cases that might be useful to readers of this blog who either try such cases or hire (and thereafter manage) lawyers who try such cases. What prompted this idea was a long
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Coverage Lawyers, and How to Pay Them
By Stephen Rosenberg on
Posted in Coverage Counsel, Coverage Litigation
It seems like everyone is weighing in on the question of billable hours and alternative fee arrangements these days. My colleague and occasional lunch companion – and forceful proselytizer for abandoning the billable hour – Chris Marston weighed in on his blog the other day on the evils of the billable hour and his belief…
Objectivity in Providing Coverage Advice
By Stephen Rosenberg on
Posted in Coverage Counsel
With too much on my plate at the beginning of the week, I told David Rossmiller that I was not going to borrow from his terrific post early this week on the thought process needed to provide advice on coverage issues. As the week has gone by, however, I find myself regularly returning to it.…
Insurance Coverage Counsel and the Repeat Player
By Stephen Rosenberg on
Posted in Coverage Counsel
I often mention in seminars and meetings a point that I call “the insurance company and the repeat player.” In doing so, my intent is to emphasize to insureds and their usual counsel the importance of retaining experienced insurance coverage lawyers to represent them when issues arise involving insurance coverage and insurance policies, whether they…