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

After an insurance carrier denied a lawyer and her firm's claim for lost business income due to the COVID-19-related shutdown, she sued both her carrier and the producer that procured the policy.

The Seventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a bad faith action against the insurer after an unexpected excess judgment.

An unlicensed therapist provided services to a young boy who later killed himself.

Insurers have a duty to defend the county against the estates of three men who were falsely imprisoned, and during their imprisonment suffered life-threatening and eventually deadly illnesses and injuries.

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