It's most interesting and encouraging to see Professor Jay Feinman publish a new paper that frankly addresses the pressures exerted on...

“Protection gaps” are one of the results of the failure of state regulation of most forms of insurance. The gap problem – as it exists...

With trial court approval of a settlement, the parties are close to reaching the end of the long and winding road of the Avery case. ...

A press release yesterday brought news of an interesting next step in the process of increasing the intersections between law and...

A new aspect of the practice of law is applying AI to sets of cases. That trend is now being applied to insurance coverage cases,...

Those who understand asbestos litigation will appreciate the karma one could see in this outcome. For the rest of you, sorry, but the...

Berkshire’s appetite for asbestos claim revenue has generated numerous interesting deals, to the least. The latest pair of deals received...

For persons and entities involved in mass tort claiming and litigation with insurance companies and/or other payors, there’s a new and...

As previously predicted by yours truly and other members of a multidisciplinary team, asbestos losses continue to rise for insurance...

The Johns-Manville chapter 11. A debacle of expediency and short-term thinking from 1992-1998, and then later “do overs.” In one of its...

Plaintiffs continue to probe the limits of bankruptcy court injunctions, an effort that is even more interesting while the Second...

It took some time, but 50 indictments finally emerged for the engineering firm hired by property damage insurance company lawyers to...

Garlock’s “plaintiff’ fraud” claims apparently will not be tested on the merits in Kentucky as it just lost an intermediate court appeal....

The discovery wars of tomorrow will include plaintiffs seeking access to existing and future analytic and predictive databases and models...

Asbestos litigation keeps on going. Indeed, a couple of weeks ago, AM Best put out yet another iteration of its annual report on asbestos...

Who recently said insurers are under-reserved for asbestos litigation despite several years of increasing reserves ? The...

An August 3, 2015 story in Insurance Insider reports a notable new $150 million second quarter charge taken by CNA for asbestos...

Advocates of damages caps in medical malpractice cases seldom, if ever, confront the gross unfairness of leaving on one person the...

Access to “big data” is important to multiple aspects of claiming and payments systems. For example, secrecy in data helps some health...

Yogi Berra probably never dreamed of the number of times his line would reused. In any event, it applies well to insurance companies...