In an article in the New York Law Journal entitled, “State High Court Reminds Insurers of Risks in Breaching Duty to Defend,” Jeffrey L. Schulman and Jared Zola, partners at Dickstein Shapiro, review a recent decision where the New York Court of Appeals held that it need not determine whether cited policy exclusions negated an insurer's duty to indemnify the underlying legal malpractice judgment, because “by breaching its duty to defend, [the insurer] lost its right to rely on these exclusions in litigation over its indemnity obligation.”
Victoria Spears
Victoria Prussen Spears is senior vice president of Meyerowitz Communications Inc., a law firm marketing communications consulting company. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Brooklyn Law School, Ms. Spears was an attorney at a leading New York City law firm before joining Meyerowitz Communications. She may be contacted at [email protected].