On April 9, 2010, Iowa’s governor Chet Culver signed measures (Senate File 2201) designed to create greater transparency and disclosure of health insurance premiums, and to expand the rights of consumers prior to any rate increases by insurance companies. …
Read More Iowa Enacts Law Requiring 30-Day Rate Hike Notice from Health Insurers

Following the Government’s announcement last month (as previously reported here), The Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions & Amounts) (Amendment) Regulation 2010 has come into force. 

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Read More UK: Government increases payments for mesothelioma victims under statute

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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Read More Ninth Circuit Holds That Infringement Of Patented Website Feature Constitutes “Advertising Injury”

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