Top 10 Insurance Coverage Case Law Developments for September

Here are the Top 10 Insurance Coverage Case Law Developments for September 2016. - Life Insurance Florida…

Steven A. Meyerowitz | October 03, 2016

Here are the Top 10 Insurance Coverage Case Law Developments for September 2016.

- Life Insurance

Florida Supreme: STOLI Policy Incontestable After Two Years

- Businessowners Insurance

No Coverage in “Junk Fax” Case, Third Circuit Affirms. (Note for Readers: A “Fax” Used to Be a Way to Communicate.)

- Environmental Insurance

In Case of First Impression, N.Y. Appeals Court Allocates Environmental Cleanup Costs to Insured Where Insurance Had Been Unavailable

- Commercial General Liability

How an Insurer Persuaded Two Courts to Strike Down a $1.125 Million Consent Judgment Reached by Its Insured

- Commercial General Liability

N.Y. Appeals Court Rules That Policy's Additional Insured Clause Covered Only Those With Written Contract “Directly With” Named Insured

- Workers' Compensation

Idaho Supreme: Firefighter Failed to Prove That His Occupation Had Caused Him to Develop Lung Cancer

- Workers' Compensation

Oklahoma Supreme Court Strikes Down Workers' Comp “Opt Out” Act

- Professional Liability

Insurer May Introduce Evidence Outside Underlying Complaint in D.J. Action, Seventh Circuit Rules

- Bad Faith

Kentucky Supreme: Third-Party Insurance Bad-Faith Claimant Failed to Meet “Tall Burden of Proof”

- Exclusions

Travel Insurer Properly Excluded Coverage for Illness That Manifested on Policy's Effective Date, N.J. Appeals Court Rules

Steven A. Meyerowitz

Steven A. Meyerowitz, a Harvard Law School graduate, is the founder and president of Meyerowitz Communications Inc., a law firm marketing communications consulting company. He may be contacted at [email protected].

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