Insurance Coverage for Statutory Damages
In our lead article, “Insurance Coverage for Statutory Damages under Professional Liability Policies,” Timothy P. Law and Miranda A. Jannuzzi, attorneys at Reed Smith LLP, discuss statutory damages under professional liability policies, with a focus on the specified damages that are used as the basis of class actions under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Privacy and Cyber Related Insurance Coverage
Over the past few years, policyholders and insurance companies have battled over whether well-worn exclusions and coverage clauses in commercial general liability policies and directors and officers policies allow coverage for a number of risks unique to the cyber information and communication age. Our next article, “Mind the Gaps: Path to Privacy and Cyber Related Insurance Coverage Remains Uncertain,” by Anthony P. Tatum, Shelby S. Guilbert, and Andrew M. W. Mutter, attorneys at King & Spalding, reviews cases that highlight the importance of carefully assessing risk and reviewing company insurance policies to make sure significant gaps are closed and that the policy language does not lend itself to denials by insurers.
Focus On: How to Qualify an Expert Witness
In this month's “Focus On” column, “How to Qualify an Expert Witness in the Area of Insurance Claims Handling,” Steven A. Meyerowitz, the Director of FC&S Legal and the Editor-in-Chief of the Insurance Coverage Law Report, explains a decision by a federal district court in Florida in a bad faith case that illustrates the factors a court considers when a plaintiff seeks to qualify an expert witness who is challenged by a defendant insurance company.
And More…
We also have the “best of the best” Case Law and Legislative/Regulatory Developments from FC&S Legal, as always written and analyzed by Steven A. Meyerowitz, and my Industry News column.
On behalf of the FC&S Legal team, I wish you all a very, very Happy and Healthy 2016!
Enjoy the issue!
Victoria Prussen Spears
Editor, Insurance Coverage Law Report
Associate Director, FC&S Legal