FC&S Legal’s Analysis of Superstorm Sandy’s Insurance Coverage Issues: 2016’s Top Cases

It has been five years since one of the most powerful and destructive storms to strike the East Coast of the United States made landfall five years ago, on October 29, 2012. Since then, FC&S Legal: The Insurance Coverage Law Information Center has provided what we believe to be the most comprehensive coverage anywhere of virtually every aspect of the insurance coverage law issues stemming from Sandy.

Here are the Top 25 Insurance Coverage Case Law Developments on Superstorm Sandy from FC&S Legal for 2016.

N.Y. Federal Court Dismisses Insureds' Bad Faith and Deceptive Practices Claims in Superstorm Sandy Case

SFIP Covered Flood-Related Erosion Involving Soil Settlement or Other Earth Movement, N.J. District Court Rules in Superstorm Sandy Case

SFIP Preempted Insureds' RICO Claim, and Their State Law Claims, N.Y. District Court Finds in Superstorm Sandy Case

In Superstorm Sandy Case, District Court Rules That Third-Party Contractor Could Not Assert Any Claim Against Its Customer's Flood Insurer

Second Circuit Limits Amtrak's Superstorm Sandy Flood Coverage to $125 Million – Not the $675 Million Amtrak Sought

N.J. District Court Dismisses Homeowner's Extra-Contractual and Tort Claims in Superstorm Sandy Case

Superstorm Sandy Coverage Suit, Filed 11 Days Late, Is Dismissed by N.J. District Court

N.Y. District Court Rejects Art Gallery's Request to Vacate Appraisal Award in Superstorm Sandy Case

N.J. Appeals Court, in Superstorm Sandy Case, Upholds Criminal Conviction for Theft from, and Falsifying Records to, FEMA

In Superstorm Sandy Case, N.Y. District Court Rules That Policy Did Not Provide Distinct Coverage for Losses Incurred Due to “Named Storm”

N.J. Homeowners' Consumer Fraud Act Claim in Superstorm Sandy Case Withstands Motion to Dismiss

Flood Policy Was Effectively Canceled Before Superstorm Sandy, N.J. District Court Rules

N.J. Appeals Court Enforces Settlement Agreement Reached in Voluntary Mediation Over Superstorm Sandy Claims

Policy's One-Year Limitations Period Barred Homeowner's Superstorm Sandy Claims, N.J. District Court Decides

Federal Court in Superstorm Sandy Case Dismisses RICO Action Based on Allegedly Fraudulent Damage Reports

Anti-Concurrent Causation Clause Dooms N.J. Homeowners' Superstorm Sandy Claim

N.Y. Court Rejects Law Firm's Superstorm Sandy Coverage Claims Under Policy's Civil Authority, Dependent Property, and Business Income Provisions

N.J. District Court Refuses to Reopen Superstorm Sandy Case Dismissed After “Months of Inaction”

N.Y. Appeals Court in Superstorm Sandy Case Rules that Policy's Deductible was $2.5 Million, Not $250,000

Policy Separately Covered Debris Removal Costs in Excess of Flood Limit, N.J. Appeals Court Rules in Superstorm Sandy Case

Waiver in Bailor/Bailee Agreement Did Not Bar Insurer's Later Subrogation Action, N.Y. Appeals Court Rules in Superstorm Sandy Case

Flood Coverage Deductible Was $19.2 Million, Not $100,000, Court Rules in Superstorm Sandy Case

Flood Sublimit Applied to “Time Element” Losses in Superstorm Sandy Case, Delaware State Court Rules

In Superstorm Sandy Case, NY Court Rules that Insured's Release of Storage Company Doomed Insurer's Subrogation Action

Insured Asserted Viable Action against Agent in Superstorm Sandy Coverage Case, N.Y. Federal District Court Decides

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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