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We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming virtual Tressler Talk:The B-Team – Don’t Pity the Fool About Coverage B Thursday, March 30, 2023
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A Primer and Hot Topics in the World of Coverage B
Dealing with libel and slander claims? Inundated with invasion of privacy claims? Sorting through a…
In First Mercury Insurance Co. v. First Florida Building Corporation, 20-cv-1929 (M.D. Fla Jan. 3, 2023), the court rejected an insurer’s bid to have evidence considered outside the underlying complaint concerning the claimant’s employment status to determine the duty to defend. This underlying suit involves a personal injury claim where the claimant sustained…
By: Rosa Tumialán
The debate concerning the applicability of general liability policies to claims arising out of violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) has not gone all that well for insurers. The Illinois Supreme Court in West Bend Mut. Ins. Co. v. Krishna Schaumburg Tan, Inc., 2021 IL 125978, held that a BIPA…
Join us for this complimentary seminar to learn about the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance. Tressler’s experienced insurance attorneys will discuss the controversy surrounding the Restatement’s development, its most controversial provisions and any trends regarding its application or usage by courts and counsel alike since its publication in 2019.
Thursday, February…
By: Samantha Rothman
In West Bend Mutual Insurance Company
v. Community United School District 300,
2021 IL App (2d) 210108, the insurer sought a declaration
that it had no duty to defend an additional insured, a school district, in
connection with several lawsuits filed on behalf of minors. The minors were
allegedly sexually molested and/or…
Recently, the
Northern District of Texas found a commercial general liability policy did not
provide coverage for the death of a utility contractor who suffocated after he
was buried in a pit of gravel by another worker.
The Tarrant Regional Water District hired IPL Partners to perform construction work on an integrated pipeline in Venus,…
In AIX Specialty Ins. Co. v. BigLimo, Inc., No. 3:21-cv-08, 2021 WL 2708902 (S.D. Ohio June 30, 2021) the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio concluded an insured nightclub’s unauthorized use of the pictures of two models in Facebook advertisements potentially qualified as “implied defamation” and “personal and advertising injury.” The court held…
In Am. Nat’l Property & Cas. Co. v. Select Mgmt. Group, 20-cv-542 (N.D. Okla. Mar 23, 2021), the Northern District of Oklahoma recently examined the meaning of “professional services” when evaluating the policy’s professional services exclusion. These terms were not defined in the policy itself. The underlying suit involved a real estate broker, the listing…
Thus far in 2020, there have been several reported insurance coverage cases addressing “abuse” exclusions. Dorchester Mutual Ins. Co. v. Krusell, 150 N.E.3d 731 (Mass. 2020); Atain Specialty Ins. Co. v. Armory Studios, LLC, — Fed.Appx. —- (9th Cir. Aug. 13, 2020) (California law); National Liability & Fire Ins. Co. v.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled in Scottsdale Insurance Company v. Columbia Insurance Group, Inc., No. 19-3315 (7th Cir. Aug. 26 2020) (Illinois law), that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois did not err in ruling that Scottsdale Insurance, as the liability insurer of…
