When all is said and done, FC&S Legal: The Insurance Coverage Law Information Center (www.fcandslegal.com) and the FC&S Legal monthly print and online publication, the Insurance Coverage Law Report, are about one thing: insurance coverage law.
We cover the most significant new insurance coverage law developments from federal and state courts across the country – in depth. Simply put, court decisions are at the heart of what we are, what we do, and what we want you to think about when you think about us.
And court decisions are what we have for you in this issue of the Insurance Coverage Law Report.
Cyber Coverage
First, we have the fourth and final part of an article by Roberta D. Anderson, a partner in the Pittsburgh office of K&L Gates LLP.
As Ms. Anderson explains, insurance can play a vital role in a company's overall strategy to address, mitigate and maximize protection against the increasing threat of cyber risk. Here, Ms. Anderson examines the types of coverages available to address and mitigate cyber risk under revolutionary new “cyber” insurance products.
Lawyers as Targets
Just recently, in the Case Law Developments section of FC&S Legal, I explored a decision by a federal district court in New York that rejected a law firm's contention that its insurance carrier was obligated to cover it for its loss in a forged check scam. (You can find that online at: http://www.fcandslegal.com/2014/02/11/law-firms-claim-for-loss-in-forged-check-scam-foun).
In, “Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels: Lawyers as Targets of Lucrative Scams,” Don Malecki, a member of the FC&S Legal Editorial Advisory Board and a principal of Malecki, Deimling, Nielander & Associates, LLC, an insurance, risk, and management consulting firm in Erlanger, Kentucky, discusses a number of other court decisions where lawyers were duped by thieves and sought coverage for their losses under their commercial insurance policies.
The “Classification Limitation Endorsement”
Finally, in the fourth part of their article, Fundamental Curtailment of Wide Ranging Commercial General Liability Coverage? The 'Classification Limitation Endorsement,'” Randall L. Smith and Justin R. Goodman explore observations that the commercial general liability policy has been trending for decades toward ever more narrow cover and ask whether the classification limitation endorsement is part of a particular direction toward the contraction of CGL coverage.
Insurance coverage law developments, from beginning to end!
Enjoy the issue!
Steven A. Meyerowitz
Director, FC&S Legal
Editor-in-Chief, the Insurance Coverage Law Report
April 2014