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In The Legal's Insurance Law supplement, read about the 'forever chemicals' that will impact the insurance industry for years to come and how the strict liability standard could affect insurance litigation.
Policyholders are pursuing coverage for alleged PFAS-related exposures under several types of insurance policies, including commercial general liability, pollution liability and specialty, and first-party property policies.
The costs of responding to a government subpoena or investigative demand can be substantial. The broadly worded demands for information or testimony typically require burdensome searches through mountains of documents, data, and electronically stored information.
Since the pandemic struck last March, policyholders have sued insurance carriers nearly 2,000 times alleging their policies covered business losses due to COVID-19 and the related civil authority orders.
As New York seeks to protect policyholders from insurers' bad-faith failure to settle valid claims, the recently proposed Senate Bill S6813 could significantly change the landscape of insurance law by codifying bad faith in claims settlements and unleash a flood of claims for "deceptive" conduct across the state.
In 2020, the Pennsylvania Superior Court confirmed that the UTPCPL does not apply to the handling of insurance claims, further reducing the emphasis on UTPCPL claims in insurance litigation.