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Pennsylvania courts struggle with insurance coverage for defective product claims

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 28 2013

In 2012, Judge Wettick of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas issued two decisions that have the potential to significantly limit the

Insurance coverage for food and beverage contamination claims and recalls

  • King & Spalding LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 4 2012

Damages owed from illness and death claims resulting from actual or alleged food and beverage contamination, along with the cost of recalls of potentially contaminated products, present serious financial risk to companies involved in the manufacture or sale of food products

Insurance company disputes obligation to provide diacetyl damages or defense

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 25 2013

A company that issued Citrus and Allied Essences Ltd. a commercial umbrella insurance policy in 2006 and 2007 has filed suit in a New York state

Food liability issues: impaired property exclusion precludes coverage for sale of tainted bread

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 26 2008

A Georgia intermediate appellate court recently held that the impaired property exclusion precluded coverage for allegations that the policyholder bakery sold contaminated bread to a sandwich shop

Insurers must defend Four Loko maker in one of five lawsuits

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 20 2012

A federal court in Illinois has determined that insurers providing coverage to Phusion Projects, Inc., which makes Four Loko, an alcoholic beverage with large amounts of caffeine and other stimulants, do not have a duty to defend the company in lawsuits alleging injury from intoxication

Eleventh Circuit reverses decision to exclude plaintiff’s experts

  • Jenner & Block
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 19 2013

In United Fire & Casualty Co. v. Whirlpool Corp., 704 F.3d 1338 (11th Cir. 2013) (No. 11-15011), the plaintiff insurer brought this appeal from the

Weekly Washington healthcare update

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 1 2013

Last week, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Boustany wrote a letter to HHS Secretary Sebelius inquiring about a voter registration

What to ask about recall or product contamination insurance coverage

  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2011

If they don't already have it, I advise my clients to talk with their insurance broker about purchasing recall insurance (otherwise known as product contamination insurance

Insurer must defend maker of lead paint-tainted toys

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 26 2008

Last year's massive series of recalls of children's toys manufactured in China that contained lead paint spurred lawsuits seeking insurance coverage for losses arising out of the recalls

Massachusetts Superior Court denies foreign manufacturer summary judgment for lack of personal jurisdiction, holding manufacturer waived defense through participation in discovery and motion practice regarding merits of suit

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 2 2012

In American Int’l Ins. Co. v. Ziabicki Import Co., 2012 WL 3039228 (Mass. Super. Ct. July 5, 2012), a valuable painting was damaged when the nails securing the picture hangers to the wall snapped and the painting fell from the wall