Because criminal matters proceed at a more rapid pace than civil matters, it is necessary to be proactive in assessing your professional liability policy.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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…