Richard H. Monk, III | Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP | October 23, 2017 Could you be providing “professional services” that might lead to liability excluded by your commercial general liability policy? The answer may be different than you think. A recent unpublished Eleventh Circuit opinion provides a reminder that it is important to review… Continue reading The Professional Services Exclusion: You May Not Have the Coverage You Think
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It’s Tradition! Pollution Exclusion Applies Only to Traditional Environmental Contamination: New Cases from Washington and Connecticut
Lucas M. Blower | Brouse McDowell | September 17, 2017 In general, a pollution exclusion precludes coverage for liabilities arising from the “discharge, dispersal, release or escape” of “irritants, contaminants or pollutants.” The exclusion was incorporated in commercial general liability (CGL) insurance policies in response to the massive environmental liabilities incurred by companies in the… Continue reading It’s Tradition! Pollution Exclusion Applies Only to Traditional Environmental Contamination: New Cases from Washington and Connecticut
When Your “B Team” Becomes Your “A Team”: A Shout Out to the Oft-Forgotten Coverage B in Your CGL Policy
David L. Beck | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP | September 6, 2017 Coverage B under traditional Commercial General Liability (CGL) policies may be the least understood coverage that nearly every company carries. Coverage B provides liability protection for claims of Personal and Advertising Injury, such as false arrest, libel or slander, and violation of… Continue reading When Your “B Team” Becomes Your “A Team”: A Shout Out to the Oft-Forgotten Coverage B in Your CGL Policy
Courts Misunderstand the Meaning of “That Particular Part”
David Smith | Policyholder Perspective | June 7, 2017 This is part one of a two-part series looking at how court decisions in recent years have thwarted general contractors’ reasonable expectation of coverage under their general liability policies. In early March, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an unpublished opinion in Archer Western Contractors v.… Continue reading Courts Misunderstand the Meaning of “That Particular Part”
Washington Supreme Court Applies the Efficient Proximate Cause Rule to Third Party Liability Policy to Find a Duty to Defend
Sally S. Kim | Gordon & Rees LLP | May 11, 2017 The efficient proximate cause rule is one of the more confusing analyses that an insurance company must undertake when investigating certain coverage issues under first party insurance policies. And until now, the efficient proximate cause rule has only been applied to first party… Continue reading Washington Supreme Court Applies the Efficient Proximate Cause Rule to Third Party Liability Policy to Find a Duty to Defend