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| Insurance Coverage |
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08/26/11 |
Bus Company's Business Automobile Liability Policy Does Not Cover Liability to Passengers Who Were Exposed to Bus Driver's Tuberculosis |
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07/08/11 |
Criminal Act Exclusion in Auto Liability Policy Is Not Contrary to Public Policy and Is Therefore Enforceable |
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06/18/11 |
Liability Insurers May Buy Insurance Policies Back from Insureds Without Violating Public Policy |
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05/23/11 |
Homeowners Insurer Required to Defend Murder Conspiracy |
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03/25/11 |
Texas Supreme Court Recognizes Possibility of Duty to Indemnify When Pleadings Preclude Duty to Defend |
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12/17/10 |
Under Texas law, anti-assignment clauses in CGL policies are valid and enforceable |
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04/26/10 |
CGL policy's pollution exclusion bars coverage for injurious gasoline leak from service station, and additional coverage for products-completed operation hazards in umbrella policy does not cover leak |
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05/04/09 |
Texas Supreme Court Refuses to Apply Intentional Injury Exclusion to Injuries Resulting from High Speed Chase |
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12/30/08 |
Claims-Made Errors and Omissions Policy's Coverage for Claims Based on "Prior Acts" the Insured Did Not Know Would Result in a Claim Does Not Apply to Class Actions Filed during Policy Period If Other Class Actions Containing Similar Allegations Predate Policy |
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12/15/08 |
No Insurance Policy Can Be Reformed under Rhode Island Law without Proof by Clear and Convincing Evidence of a Mutual Mistake |
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10/21/08 |
Liability Insurer Must Defend Suits Seeking
Compensation for the Cost of Head Sets from Cell Phone Manufacturers |
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08/07/08 |
Contractor's CGL Policy's Additional Insured Endorsement, Extending Coverage to the Owner "Only with Respect to Operations Performed by"
the Contractor, Applies to a Loss Caused by the Owner's Sole Negligence, a Premises Defect - Texas Supreme Court |
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08/07/08 |
Excess Insurer May Contest Coverage under "Follow Form" Excess Policy after Primary Insurer Pays Policy Limits to Settie Claim |
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04/01/08 |
Liability Insurance/Punitive Damages |
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04/01/08 |
Notice: Liability Insurer Owes No Duty – Contractural or Extra-Contractural – to Any Insured to Provide an "Unsought, Uninvited, Unrequested, Unsolicited Defense" |
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01/15/08 |
Under Geogia Law, Insurers May Not Rescind a Policy For Falsity in the Application Process Absent Deliberate Misrepresentation or Deliberate Omission during Application Process |
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09/15/07 |
Washington State Takes Broad, Pro-Policyholder View of Liability Insurer's Duty to Defend |
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09/15/07 |
Parent Corporation's Indemnification of Sub's D&O Defense Costs and Settlement Expenses Did Not Preclude D&O Coverage |
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05/14/07 |
Unclear and Confusing Definition of "Deductible" for a Business Interruption Policy Must Be Interpreted in Favor of the Insured |
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04/02/07 |
Professional Liability Insurance |
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12/11/06 |
The “NOTICE OF LOSS” Condition, Judicially Inferred Negations thereof (to-wit: Lack of Prejudge), and the True Realities of Memory |
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Winter 2006 |
Storms and Claims |
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July 2006 |
Book Reviews--The Box & Box Boats |
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05/01/06 |
Katrina and Her Cat-tyStormy Colleague-Extra Expenses & Business Interruption Coverages |
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12/2005 |
Insurance Flood Exclusion Any Ambiguity |
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11/10/2005 |
The Notice of Loss Condition, Judicially Inferred Negations Thereof, and The True Realities of Memory |
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12/29/05 |
Insurance Coverage: Insurability of Punitive Damages in Texas |
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12/2005 |
After the Storms - Important Insurance Considerations ... |
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May 2005 |
The Ins and Outs of D&O Coverage |
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11/10/04 |
ADJUSTMENT OF DISABILITY CLAIMS AND THE PROBLEM OF BAD FAITH |
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11/01/04 |
DISABILITY INSURANCE: AN ELEMENTARY AND " PURISTICAL'"INTR0DUCTION TO COVERAGE ISSUES |
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Feb 2004 |
Extra Expenses and Business Interruption Coverages |
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11/2003 |
Ensuing Loss Clauses in Texas Insurance Jurisprudence |
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2003 |
Liability Insurance and Supplementary Payments |
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11/11/2002 |
A Posnerian Re-formation of Insurance Law |
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10/08/01 |
A Look at Invoking War Exclusions |
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May 2001 |
Coverage B - Personal and Advertising Injury Liability - 1998 Revisions |
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04/16/01 |
Recent Court Decision Rocks WC System |
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03/19/01 |
UM-UIM Developments |
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03/08/2001 |
1998 Coverage B--Personal and Advertising Injury Liability |
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Spring 2001 |
Directors' and Officers' Liability Insurance-Probable Directions in Texas Law |
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January 2001 |
Insurance for Cyber Liabilities |
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12/18/00 |
Advertising Liability |
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11/20/00 |
Liability Coverage for Breaches of Contract |
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11/06/00 |
Legal Malpractice Insurance |
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Nov 2000 |
Advertising Injury Insurance |
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October 2000 |
Liability Insurance and High-Tech Industries |
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Autumn 2000 |
Construction Defects and Liability Insurance |
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Summer 2000 |
The Defending Liability Insurer's Duty to Settle |
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03/27/00 |
Imbetterment & Enworsement |
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2000 |
Confusion and Pollution |
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09/20/99 |
Stacking and Statutes |
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08/30/99 |
Insurance for Arson |
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Summer 1999 |
Fortuity, Insurance, and Y2K |
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03/99 |
Occupying Forces-Limitations on the Pollution Exclusion as Applied to On-Site Discharges |
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09/28/98 |
Surety Bonds and Insurance |
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09/07/98 |
The Stowers Doctrine-An Agent's Primer |
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07/27/98 |
Leaky Pipes-Highest Court Takes on Slabs |
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07/06/98 |
The Business Pursuits Exclusion |
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05/18/98 |
Jones Against Clinton |
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05/01/1998 |
A Liability Insurer's Duty to Settle-the Primary, the Excess and the Insured |
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03/23/98 |
Dogs, Guns and Automobiles |
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02/09/98 |
Insurance, Arson and the American Family |
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09/15/1997 |
Pouring, Spilling, Storing and Dripping |
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09/15/1997 |
Insurer Recoupment of Defense Costs in Light of Buss |
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July 1997 |
Reserving Rights Rightly-The Romance and the Temptations |
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05/01/1997 |
Duty to Defend - Texas Developments |
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Spring 1997 |
Liability Insurance Contracts - A Primer |
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July 1996 |
Vendors' Endorsements |
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Autumn 1995 |
Tort Liability and Reinsurance Contracts |
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May 1996 |
Review Essay--Subrogation, Restitution, and Indemnity |
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1995 |
Insurance Coverage Opinions |
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Spring 1992 |
Insurance Contracts and Semantic Inquiry |
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Autumn 1991 |
Insurance, Ambiguity, and the Sophisticated Insured |
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04/18/1991 |
Ambiguity, Sophistication, and the Limited Pollution Exclusion |
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August 1986 |
Bungled Inspections-A Polemic Against Insurer Liability |
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Spring 1986 |
Closing Arguments in Insurance Fraud Cases |
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Late 1980 |
Pollution and Property Policies |
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| Insurance: Litigation |
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01/24/11 |
Use and Abuse of Expert Witness in Isurance Cases |
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12/17/10 |
Under Texas law, anti-assignment clauses in CGL policies are valid and enforceable |
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05/18/09 |
Expert Testimony in Various Types of Insurance Cases |
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04/28/09 |
Fact Issue Existed Regarding Whether Insurer Issued One Policy or Two for Purposes of Determining Limits of Coverage Applicable to Accident |
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04/27/09 |
Texas Supreme Court Applies Notice-Prejudice Rule to Claims-Made Policy Requirement of Notice "As Soon As Practicable" |
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06/01/08 |
Liability Insurer May Use Lawyers that Are Its Employees to Defend a Suit against an Insured, If the Interests of the Insured and the Insurer are "Congruent," but not Otherwise |
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12/01/07 |
Legal Duties of Intermediaries to Their Customers (Part III) |
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11/17/07 |
Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act Applies to Mortgage Guarantee Insurers
Use of Borrowers' Credit Information in Pricing Lenders's Policies |
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07/27/07 |
United States Supreme Court: Credit Reports and Underwriting |
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05/31/07 |
The Texas Attorney General is Not Required to Recruit Policyholders to Be Class Representatives When Suing Insurers Under State Statutes |
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04/24/07 |
Sureties/Bankruptcy - United States Supreme Court Allows Surety to File Unsecured Claim for Contractural Attorney Fees, Even though Fees Were Incurred in Litigation Issues of Federal Bankruptcy Law |
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04/02/07 |
Insurance Counsel |
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04/02/07 |
Professional Liability Insurance |
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01/25/07 |
Texas—UIM—When Recoverable—Attorney's Fees |
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01/15/07 |
Legal Duties of Intermediaries to Their Customers (Part I & Part II) |
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12/11/06 |
The “NOTICE OF LOSS” Condition, Judicially Inferred Negations thereof (to-wit: Lack of Prejudge), and the True Realities of Memory |
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Dec 7-8 2006 |
Taking and Defending Adjuster’s Depositions |
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10/06/06 |
The Insurance Buyback |
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09/20/2006 |
The Recent Spread of Mysterious Insurance Litigation |
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7/8/05 |
“Look For Coverage!” |
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11/10/05 |
The Notice of Loss Condition, Judicially Inferred Negations Thereof and The True Realities of Memory |
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10/01/05 |
Quality Questioning-Quellenforschung |
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Summer 2000 |
The Defending Liability Insurer's Duty to Settle |
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06/18/01 |
Ponzied Insurance Premiums |
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01/22/01 |
Liability Insurers and Rights of Reimbursement |
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03/13/00 |
Car Wrecks and Car Parts |
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02/07/00 |
Wooge's Case-Ownership of Renewals |
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11/08/99 |
Defining Negligence, Misconduct |
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07/19/99 |
To Squeal or Not to Squeal |
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09/24/1998 |
Pleading Texas Insurance Cases |
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09/07/98 |
The Stowers Doctrine-An Agent's Primer |
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Summer 1998 |
Drunk Driving, Pollution, and Insurance |
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05/18/98 |
Jones Against Clinton |
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05/18/98 |
Insurance Ramifications of Jones v. Clinton |
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May 1998 |
Depositions of Claims People |
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July 1997 |
Reserving Rights Rightly-The Romance and the Temptations |
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Spring 1997 |
Teratology, Toxicity, and Torts |
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Autumn 1996 |
One Hell of a Book |
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March 1996 |
Are Liability Carriers Second-Class Clients-No, But They May Be Soon-A Call to Arms Against the Restatement (Third) of the Law Governing Lawyers |
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August 1986 |
Bunguled Inspections - A Polemic Against Insurer Liability |
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| INSURANCE: SUBROGATION |
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02/18/11 |
Mississippi Appellate Court Allows Excess Insurer to Sue Attorney Hired by Primary Insurer to Defend Insured under Equitable Subrogation Theory |
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08/07/08 |
Texas Supreme Court Recognizes Right of Construction Subcontractor and Subcontractor's Insurer to Seek Subrogation Recovery from Manufacturer of Defective Product of Amounts Subcontractor's Insurer Paid to Satisfy Subcontractor's Obligation under Construction Subcontract's Indemnity Provision |
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11/15/07 |
Texas Supreme Court: Settlement, Subrogation,
Contribution–One Primary-&-Excess Carrier Versus Primary-Only-Carrier. |
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07/27/07 |
"Made Whole Doctrine – Texas Supreme Court" |
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09/20/06 |
South Dakota Law: "Made Whole Doctrine" and Subrogation. |
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09/20/06 |
Lawyer Indemnity for Insurer's Subrogation Rights |
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1996 |
Subrogation, Restitution and Indemnity: (74 TX.REV.1361 (1996). This is a general article disguised as a book review. |
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| INSURANCE: GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS |
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06/15/08 |
Nevada's Statute Violates the "Privileges and Immunities" Clause of the United States Constitution and So Is Void |
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09/01/07 |
Texas Statute Forbidding Some Insurers from Owning Body Shops |
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