Company leaders—whether the general counsel, chief executive, or some other officer in charge—often call their outside counsel when a formal claim is made against them, or a dispute appears headed toward formal litigation. What business leaders often don’t think to …
An Alabama federal court ruled this week that a builder’s commercial general liability insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify against two construction defect lawsuits it faces, because it didn’t notify the insurer in a timely fashion. The U.S. …
An Illinois construction company that waited six years to inform its excess insurer that it had been sued cannot expect coverage from that carrier, and it can’t go after the insurance brokerage that sold it the policy either, a federal …
Insurance coverage disputes have a lot of commonalities. And lawyers who represent both sides of the table – defense and plaintiff – say participants in such disputes should be aware of certain potentially adversarial issues that routinely arise in the …