Professional Liability


August 08, 2022
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The new law, if signed by Governor Hochul, would expand the recovery available after the loss of a loved one.

July 25, 2022
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The liability coverage for "damages because of bodily injury" did not extend to attorneys' fees under a cleaning company's business liability policy.

July 11, 2022
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A federal judge has ordered Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, who wrote a professional liability policy for former Rivkin Radler partner Jason Kurland, to pay defense costs in Kurland's criminal trial.

June 13, 2022
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit looked to its sister circuits last week when considering whether a district court erred in dismissing a plaintiff's malpractice claim for failing to file an arbitration declaration requirement under Washington state law.

February 08, 2022
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A court has ruled on the Oxford comma, finding that a policy's punctuation was not unclear and that a professional liability policy did not cover a multimillion-dollar judgment resulting from a lawsuit.

January 03, 2022

When a patient falls in the medical exam room due to sonogram gel spill is this a professional liability or general liability claim?

September 30, 2021
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The Pennsylvania Superior Court remanded and instructed a lower court to dismiss a nursing manager's medical malpractice complaint after she sought damages for vaccine-related injuries without first exhausting available remedies under a national program.

June 17, 2021
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Whose responsibility is it to comply with professional liability statutory requirements, the attorney or the insurer providing the professional liability policy?

November 16, 2020
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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has decided that an insurer is not obligated to defend or indemnity a Nevada doctor under his professional…

October 19, 2020
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After an insurance carrier denied a lawyer and her firm's claim for lost business income due to the COVID-19-related shutdown, she sued both her carrier and the producer that procured the policy.