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NY lower court holds that Insurance Law 3420(a) applies to lawyer’s claims-made malpractice policy

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 19 2009

The New York Supreme Court, Erie County, recently held that a lawyers’ professional liability policy constitutes a "policy or contract insuring against liability for injury to person" within the meaning of Insurance Law 3420(a)(3)-(4

NY Court of Appeals applies Pennsylvania law to bar coverage for malpractice claim pursuant to prior knowledge exclusion

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 19 2009

Reversing the intermediate appellate court, New York’s highest court recently granted summary judgment in favor of two excess insurers based upon their policies’ prior knowledge exclusion