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    Alexander Brown has litigated dozens of insurance coverage cases across the country on behalf of some of the largest corporations in the world, in federal and state trial and appellate courts, where hundreds of millions of dollars ...

Now that 44 states have permitted the use of cannabis to some extent, Congress is taking action to overcome some of the obstacles mentioned in previous post, "Five Insurance Considerations for Cannabis-Related Businesses". Bills have been introduced in Congress which, if passed, would have a substantial favorable impact on the cannabis industry.

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Even though the cannabis industry has grown rapidly since many states have authorized the sale and use of cannabis to some extent, traditional insurers have been less willing to enter the industry because marijuana remains illegal under federal law as a Schedule 1 drug.

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Nancy Sher Cohen, leader of our Los Angeles office and a leader of our Insurance Recoveries and Counseling practice group, recently sat down with Burford Capital's Andy Lundberg to discuss topics of concern for clients pursuing or considering complex insurance coverage claims. Areas covered include the future of insurance coverage litigation, budgeting for and managing the expense of big coverage litigation, use of alternative fee arrangements, and how legal finance could help policyholders manage cash flow.

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In an Opinion dated May 29, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, ruled in Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Ethel Mitchell that multiple insurers must provide coverage to a defendant county and its officials sued in a §1983 wrongful imprisonment lawsuit, including certain insurers who issued policies in post-conviction years.

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For several years, Lathrop Gage’s Insurance Recovery and Counseling team has been front-and-center at RIMS’ annual conference. This year’s event – taking place April 28-May 1 in Boston – is no exception!  We will have a team onsite at booth #549 on the tradeshow (please come by and see us if you’re there), and we have several speaking engagements lined up.

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Remember those spam emails from Nigerian royal family members needing to transfer millions of dollars out of Nigeria, requesting the recipients provide banking and personal information to “hold” the funds or otherwise front money to the fraudster to pay taxes and fees?  While most people have (hopefully) wised up to that scheme, a more insidious and devastating fraud has taken hold in the corporate world – the “social engineering” scheme.

“Social engineering” schemes are shades of the Nigerian letter scams, except the fraudster pretends to be someone affiliated ...

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UPDATE on May 23, 2018: Yesterday, ALI voted to approve these rules and many more contained in a 488-page document containing guidelines intended to aid courts in resolving coverage complex disputes. It remains to be seen how and whether courts across the country actually follow these guidelines. Lathrop Gage will be following the effect of this project on the law over the next several years and will keep you updated.

The American Law Institute (ALI) is voting tomorrow on new guidelines that may affect the complex rules adopted and applied by courts in insurance coverage disputes.  Here ...

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The modern accessibility of DNA testing has led to an unprecedented rise in exonerations of the wrongfully imprisoned and a surge in civil rights lawsuits against public officials and municipalities for suppressing exculpatory evidence. These lawsuits present complex liability issues including qualified immunity, Monell liability, statute of limitations bars, etc.

One of the most complex ancillary issues is whether these public entities are protected for civil rights claims under their insurance programs. Particularly for financially distressed municipalities, the availability of insurance proceeds is often the most critical issue because of the potentially enormous liabilities these entities face resulting from law enforcement misconduct claims.

More often than not, the dispute over coverage hinges on the “trigger issue.” “Trigger” is a shorthand insurance concept used to describe what event must occur before a particular liability policy applies to a given loss. What events “trigger” coverage wholly depend upon the language of each particular insurance contract, just like any other private contract negotiated between two parties. If there is a governing rule in insurance jurisprudence (or Contracts 101), it’s that an insurance contract should be construed as written. 

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