William S. Bennett | SDV Insights Following significant backlash in reaction to the Nevada legislature’s new law prohibiting enforcement of any provisions in liability insurance policies dictating that defense costs are included within the limits of insurance, the Nevada Division of Insurance issued an emergency regulation further clarifying the law.1 The regulation modifies two key… Continue reading Nevada Update: Nevada Commissioner of Insurance Updates Burning Limits Statute with Emergency Regulation
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Nevada’s Changing Liability Insurance Landscape—State Insurance Regulator Issues Emergency Regulation and Guidance Addressing Controversial “Defense-Within-Limits” Legislation
Geoffrey B. Fehling and Andrew S. Koelz | Hunton Insurancey Recovery Blog We recently posted about Nevada becoming the first state to prohibit defense-within-limits provisions in liability insurance policies. Defense-within-limits provisions—resulting in what is called “eroding” or “wasting” policies—reduce the policy’s applicable limit of insurance by amounts the insurer pays to defend the policyholder against a claim… Continue reading Nevada’s Changing Liability Insurance Landscape—State Insurance Regulator Issues Emergency Regulation and Guidance Addressing Controversial “Defense-Within-Limits” Legislation
Someone Who Hires an Independent Contractor May Still Be Liable, But Not in This Case
Katherine Dempsey | The Subrogation Strategist In Allstate Veh. & Prop. Ins. Co. v. Glitz Constr. Corp., 2023 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1180, 2023 NY Slip Op 01171, the Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Second Department (Appellate Court), considered whether a contractor could be found liable for its subcontractor’s alleged negligence in causing injury… Continue reading Someone Who Hires an Independent Contractor May Still Be Liable, But Not in This Case
Tricky Insurance Endorsements Can Weaken Your Liability Coverage
Carolyn Mount and Seth Row | Miller Nash Every contractor and subcontractor is required to carry liability insurance referred to as Commercial General Liability or “CGL” coverage. These policies are fairly standardized and most people assume that the coverage that is presented on the front declarations page is all that they need to know: the… Continue reading Tricky Insurance Endorsements Can Weaken Your Liability Coverage
What Should Slip and Fall Accident Victims do to Prove Liability in their Case?
Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley Slip and fall accidents in Florida are complicated and fact-dependent. Put another way, slip and fall accidents depend heavily on the actual facts of the claim. All such claims are different and unique in their own specific ways. Further compounding the issue is the complexity of the laws in… Continue reading What Should Slip and Fall Accident Victims do to Prove Liability in their Case?