Why do I blog? For the swag, of course. Well, no, not really, but I did just receive a review copy of Randy Maniloff and Jeffrey Stempel’s new General Liability Insurance Coverage deskbook, and it is tremendous. The book bears the subtitle “Key Issues in Every State,” and that phrase on the book’s
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Drum Roll Please . . . The Top Ten Insurance Coverage Decisions of 2010
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Nothing proliferates around the New Year like top ten lists; I blame David Letterman for it, and believe some academic somewhere in a popular culture department should examine the pre- and post – Letterman frequency of top ten lists in American society. That said, though, my all time favorite top ten list was Letterman’s top…
How Will Climate Change Affect LTD Carriers?
Who knows? The only link between the two subjects that I know of right now is that this blog post is going to touch on both issues.
There are a couple of stories I thought I would pass along today that may be worth reading. In the first, here, I am quoted on climate change…
Climate Change Litigation and Insurance Coverage
By Stephen Rosenberg on
I have posted in the past about how everything eventually makes its way through the insurance industry, in terms of any types of new lawsuits or liability theories, and as this article makes clear, litigation over climate change will be no different. The suits are coming, and while their viability is yet to be determined…
Thoughts on Costs and Fees in 401(k) Plans
By Stephen Rosenberg on
Posted in 401(k) Plans, Industry News
In my last post, I mentioned a seminar I gave recently on insurance coverage issues and commented on one of the themes of my presentation. Another theme I emphasized in that talk was the fact that modern insurance coverage law is basically 20 years old, with its fountainhead being the development of the law of…
Corporate Insurance Programs: Thinking Critically Before You Buy
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Posted in Industry News
I gave a seminar recently to a group of in-house counsel on insurance coverage, and the theme of my talk was the need to go beyond – or at least look behind – standard insurance packages to instead tailor the insurance program to the specific needs and exposures of the particular company in question. For…
Randy Maniloff’s Top Ten Insurance Coverage Decisions for Dummies and the Rest of Us
Some bloggers blog their way to greatness, other bloggers have greatness thrust upon them. For some reason, that line popped into my head when Randy Maniloff’s always entertaining article on the top ten insurance coverage decisions of the past year appeared, like manna from heaven, in my in-box yesterday, providing one weary blogger…
Insurance and the World at Large
I am asked on occasion about the topics of this blog and their connection to my practice, more particularly how I ended up focusing the blog on its two primary subjects. For years, my litigation practice has focused primarily on three areas: intellectual property, ERISA and insurance coverage, in no particular order. A joke which…
A Break from LaRue: Anticipating Insurance Coverage Disputes Over Climate Change Exposures
Can’t do LaRue all the time, every post, although, frankly, the more one thinks about the Supreme Court’s three opinions, the more one can come up with to talk about. I will return to various issues raised by the opinion here and there, as time and interest allows. For now, though, I think I owe…
Niche Insurance and Government Investigations
By Stephen Rosenberg on
Posted in Coverage for Professional Services, Industry News
I had two different, perhaps more substantive things in line to talk about today, but I think I am going to push them back to later in the week, to instead pass along a highly entertaining article (at least to people who really like the ins and outs and oddities of the insurance industry) that…