The Ninth Circuit recently ruled that a general liability insurer must defend its insured against a patent infringement lawsuit relating to a feature on the insured’s website. 

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On March 11, 2010, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a district court decision permitting an insured to shift the burden of primary coverage for various securities-related claims to its previous insurer by purchasing an extended reporting period (ERP) and adding an endorsement to its current primary policy making it specifically excess of the prior policy. 

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Read More Sixth Circuit Upholds An Insured’s Decision to Amend its Current Policy So As to Render A Prior Policy the Sole Primary Insurance

On April 12, 2010, Machua Millett of EAPD’s Insurance and Reinsurance Department provided a brief webcast concerning compliance and claims issues arising from the Chile Earthquake. …
Read More Compliance and Claims Issues for Foreign (Re)insurers Arising from the Chile Earthquake

On October 16, 2009, in a lawsuit brought by owners of property along the Mississippi Gulf coast that sustained damage from Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the plaintiffs have standing to assert public and private nuisance, trespass and negligence claims against the defendants who caused the emission of greenhouse gases which are alleged to have ultimately added to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina. 

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Read More Katrina: Claims To Continue Against Defendants Who Allegedly Caused the Emission of Greenhouse Gases That Added to the Ferocity of Hurricane Katrina

The new Japanese Insurance Act (the Insurance Act), which was passed by the Japanese Diet in May 2008 came into force on 1 April 2010. The Insurance Act will regulate insurance contracts generally (although the Commercial Code will continue to regulate marine insurance). The Insurance Act represents the first significant revision of insurance law in Japan for about 100 years. …
Read More HK: New Japanese Insurance Law Concerning Insurance Contracts Comes Into Force