Insurance
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Insurance Articles
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Insurance and Re-Insurance: Coverage for Claims Related to September 11th
Like the back splash from a boulder thrown through the surface of a calm lake, the aftereffects of September 11th are creating ripples in diverse and far-flung economic sectors well after the initial terrorist strike. The world is turning from its ...
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Insurance as a Means of Defining and Transferring Environmental Risks
Potentially costly environmental risks often present difficult obstacles for parties purchasing or selling real estate or engaging in corporate mergers, acquisitions or divestitures. While environmental liabilities are sometimes easily quantifiable ...
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Insurance Bad Faith Battlegounds: Not So Quiet on the Southeastern Front
In 1982, Florida's Legislature became the first in the United States to create the right to bring a private lawsuit for an insurance company's violations of the Unfair Insurance Trade Practices Act (UITPA). UITPA, on the books since the mid-'70s ...
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Insurance Coverage Considerations for Technology Companies
For technology sector companies, new media outlets and emerging technologies have resulted in exposure to previously unknown liabilities. While insurance coverage is available and enforceable to protect companies against many of these exposures ...
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Insurance Coverage For Internet Risks
When businesses utilize the Internet, they are exposed to a range of risks. Some are old risks in new guises; others are entirely new risks unique to the use of the Internet. These risks pose novel insurance coverage issues. Where the existence of ...
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Insurance Coverage for the Year 2000
Kevin J. Walsh Jay N. Heinrich Introduction An important element of a company's Year 2000 plan is an evaluation of the insurance coverage that may be available for Year 2000 related claims. To begin an insurance coverage evaluation, a company must ...
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Insurance Coverage for West Virginia Car Wrecks
Article provided by Greene, Ketchum, Bailey, Walker, Farrell & Tweel. Please visit our Web site at www.greeneketchum.com. Three of West Virginia's most popular interstates (I-64, I-77 and I-79) interlace through much of West Virginia, Ohio and ...
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Insurance coverage for Y2K claims
Insurance is often viewed as a panacea, but it rarely is. The first question usually raised when a liability risk becomes real is: "DO WE HAVE INSURANCE COVERAGE?" If the risk is new or unanticipated, insurance carriers usually respond in unison ...
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Insurance Coverage For Y2K Costs: Cinderella?s Slipper Or Alice In Wonderland?
On June 18, 1999, GTE Corporation filed an action in federal court seeking as much as $400 million in insurance coverage for costs incurred to eradicate the millennium bug. 1 Two weeks later, a property insurer for Xerox filed a New York state ...
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Insurance Coverage for Year 2000 Compliance Expenses
The costs of Year 2000 compliance are substantial and insurers may be prime targets in litigation to recoup those costs. In claiming under their insurance policies, policyholders may attempt to rely on obscure policy provisions, implied duties, or ...
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