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No coverage for claim first made prior to inception of claims-made policy

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 16 2013

The United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, applying New Hampshire law, has held that no coverage was available for a legal

Doctor’s sympathetic statement to patient cannot be used as evidence of liability

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2013

On April 23, 2013, the Ohio Supreme Court issued its opinion in Estate of Johnson v. Randall Smith, Inc., Slip Opinion No. 2013-Ohio-1507. In Johnson

Liability insurers may have duty to defend against federal prosecutions, California Court of Appeal holds

  • Barger & Wolen LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 6 2013

The Second Appellate District of California held on May 1 in Mt. Hawley Ins. Co. v. Lopez that California Insurance Code section 533.5(b) does not

Novel “bad faith admission” EMTALA theory survives motion to dismiss

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2013

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently denied Contra Costa Regional Medical Center's (CCRMC) motion to dismiss

Malpractice actions by multiple clients for separate services do not constitute related claims

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 1 2013

The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Department, has held that four lawsuits alleging legal malpractice arising out of a mass

Supreme Court of Ohio protects physician’s statement of comfort under Apology Statute

  • Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2013

On April 23, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio reversed the decision of the Eleventh District Court of Appeals and applied Ohio Revised Code 2317.43

Fourth Circuit upholds lengthy “stent” for interventional cardiologist

  • Williams Mullen
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2013

Can a cardiologist be sent to prison for performing medically unnecessary stent procedures, even though he stented a considerably lower percentage of

The Seventh Circuit bars malpractice coverage for an insured law firm despite the firm’s subjective belief that it represented its client correctly

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 23 2013

In Koransky, Bouwer & Poracky, P.C. v. The Bar Plan Mutual Ins. Co., No. 12-1579 (7th Cir. Apr. 2, 2013), the Seventh Circuit affirmed summary

OIG revises Self-Disclosure Protocol (SDP)

  • Arnall Golden Gregory LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 23 2013

On April 17, 2013, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published the revised

Prior knowledge exclusion bars coverage where law firm’s mistake allowed a seller to void client’s deal

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 18 2013

Applying Indiana law, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has held that no coverage was available for a law firm that failed