With our new Q&A feature, you can now anonymously submit insurance-related questions straight from our webpage. The insurance coverage section executive committee—which consists of policyholder attorneys, insurer attorneys, and personal injury attorneys—will promptly post an answer in the news section.

In the spirit of the upcoming ball games and in conjunction with our February 28 CLE, Procuring Insurance Coverage for Sports & Entertainment Venues and Events, we're giving you the chance to tour the NCAA Hall of Champions following the program at NO ADDITIONAL COST!

Assessing and managing risk for an event like the Super Bowl is more than a matter of just looking around the venue for possible slip and fall hazards and hiring a few security guards to ensure no one enters the stadium with a gun in their purse.

A Tallahassee judge now will consider whether life insurance companies are in the right over a 2016 law requiring them to track down beneficiaries.

On October 12, 2017, the Indiana Supreme Court denied transfer in Walsh Constr. v. Zurich Am. Ins. Co., 72 N.E.3d 957 (Ind. Ct. App. 2017), a case in which the Indiana Court of Appeals held, as a matter of first impression, that an insurer has no obligation to defend or indemnify an additional insured unless and until the named insured satisfies the self-insured retention ("SIR") under its commercial general liability ("CGL") policy.

Companies seeking to protect themselves with cybersecurity insurance must take particular care when applying for their policies. An ongoing case in a California Federal District Court between Columbia Casualty Corporation and Cottage Health System illustrates the importance of paying attention to the fine print in the policy’s application.

As Halloween approaches, we’re reminded of all things creepy: ghosts, ghouls, goblins, and of course SPIDERS. However, unlike the former that live in the imagination of children, spiders are real. Not only are they real, certain types—like the Brown Recluse Spider—can wreak havoc on you.

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The first step in recovering insurance proceeds is finding the relevant insurance policies. This can be an easy task at times: when a storm damages your home you look to your homeowner’s policy; when you are involved in a car accident you look to your auto policy and the other driver’s auto policy.

More often than not, a second wave of claims against insurance agents by their clients follows a natural disaster.