Are you old enough to remember Soviet figure skating judges in the Winter Olympics? They used to be accused all the time of putting their thumb on the scale, lowering the allegedly “objective” scoring for American skaters so as to get the results they wanted. If you recall, I reserved the same right this year
Five Favorites for Friday
Boxing Day is my favorite post-holiday holiday, similar in many ways but better than the day after Thanksgiving, because the latter has, over the years, been overtaken by pressure to either shop or get started on end of the year rushes for work. Boxing Day, at least for me, suffers from none of that.
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Five Favorites for Friday
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Five Favorites for Friday
I wasn’t quite sure what to do about Five Favorites for Friday this week, given that today is an unofficial holiday, Black Friday. I couldn’t move it up a day, as that would require publishing it on an actual national holiday, Thanksgiving.
And I didn’t want to move it up to the middle of the
A Handy Cheat Sheet on When an Insurer Must Settle a Claim in Massachusetts and On the Risks of Breaching the Duty to Settle
I have litigated, arbitrated and advised on coverage and bad faith disputes from the U.K. to Guam and in every or practically every American jurisdiction in-between. (If you add in reinsurance claims I have worked on, you can add a couple more continents to the list).
Coverage itself, because it’s basically at heart a contract
Five Favorites for Friday
As I discussed in this earlier post just last Friday, I am now running a series of posts, each to be published on Friday, covering five articles of interest that I didn’t have time to write about – or write enough about – during the week just ending. This past week was busy and full
Is Climate Change an Existential Threat to Modern Capitalism? An Insurance Executive’s Perspective
I have written extensively on the relationship between insurance and climate change, going back to early comments and work on the subject by Lloyds‘, and continued to address it in the context of insurers withdrawing from markets in the face of climate related losses. I am known for saying that the insurance industry
Boston ERISA and Insurance Litigation Blog’s Top Ten Countdown for the New Year
When I was growing up back in the seventies, one of the highlights of the end of the year was that the rock stations would all compile lists of the top songs of the year, and then play them all in one long countdown – often without any ads! There was no Spotify yet, or
A Tale of Two Maps: Homeowners Premium Increases, Climate Risk Increases and How They Relate
It’s interesting. I have been at DRI’s 2024 Insurance Coverage and Practice Symposium all day, and much of the discussion is either directly about or tangentially related to the impact of artificial intelligence on insurance. To me, the consistent theme that underlies all of the discussion is the ability of AI tools to improve the
Principles for Avoiding Chapter 93A or Other Bad Faith Liability (Lesson Three)
In the first of my two posts in this series discussing lessons I have learned over the past thirty years of practice as to how to avoid incurring Chapter 93A liability as a result of claims handling or settlement decisions, I discussed the centrality of the factual record of the claims handling and the necessity