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U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear dispute concerning preemptive effect of New York Convention on state law barring arbitration

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 29 2010

In a case we have been following on www.insurereinsure.com, Louisiana Safety Association of Timbermen Self Insured Fund v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to grant certiorari to hear a dispute between an insurance pool and its reinsurer concerning whether the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the "New York Convention") preempts a Louisiana statute that bars enforcement of arbitration agreements in insurance or reinsurance contracts

New Jersey appellate court affirms denial of coverage for attorneys' failure to disclose potential malpractice claim

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 28 2010

The Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, recently affirmed a trial court's decision to deny coverage to an attorney and his law firm who had been sued in an underlying malpractice action

Connecticut district court grants summary judgment to insurer on bad faith claim

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 28 2010

The United States District Court for the District of Connecticut recently granted a property insurer's motion for summary judgment on a claim that the insurer acted in bad faith when it denied coverage to its insured for damage to the basement walls in the insured's home

Wisconsin court: “negligent misrepresentation” claims by molestation victims against archdiocese are not covered under CGL policy

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 28 2010

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals recently ruled that "negligent misrepresentation" claims against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee arising from alleged molestation by priests are not covered under the Archdiocese's CGL policy

High Court approves scheme of arrangement for German companies

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • Germany, United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 21 2010

On 14 December 2010 the English Court sanctioned four connected schemes of arrangement for German companies in the Tele Columbus group

Virginia court follows First Circuit’s Genzyme reasoning, rejects carrier’s bid to recoup $15mm D&O payout

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 17 2010

Following the reasoning of the First Circuit in its Genzyme decision, a federal court in Virginia has granted summary judgment to an insured whose carrier had sued to recoup a $15 million settlement under a D&O policy

High court ruling causes headache for solicitors' professional indemnity insurers

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 16 2010

Mortgage Express v Mehrban Michael Singh Sawali 2010 EWHC 3054 (Ch) concerned attempts by Mortgage Express to obtain the entire contents of a solicitor's files created in relation to the solicitor's joint retention by Mortgage Express and a number of its borrowers

Obama administration sues BP and others for the Deepwater Horizon disaster

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 16 2010

The federal government filed a lawsuit yesterday in federal district court in New Orleans -- U.S. v. BP Exploration & Production Inc., et al. seeking damages under the Clean Water Act and the Oil Pollution Act for all costs and harms caused by the BP disaster, including damages to the environment

Fraudulent misrepresentation by onshore agent to offshore insurer

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • Isle of Man, United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 16 2010

In Templeton Insurance Ltd v Motorcare Warranties Ltd 2010 EWHC 3113 (Comm) the Commercial Court heard a dispute between Templeton, an insurance company incorporated in the Isle of Man, engaged in the business of selling mechanical breakdown insurance (MBI), and its UK agent, Motorcare

Federal Court calls "individual mandate" unconstitutional

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 16 2010

A Federal Court in Virginia ruled on December 13 that the provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requiring most Americans to carry insurance or pay a fine is unconstitutional

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