Synopsis
This is the one resource that provides guidance on the 21 most important general liability coverage (CGL) issues, analyzing and explaining the law affecting each claimin all 50 states! Is It Covered? Those three words can deliver surprisingly complex answers. States differ widely in their interpretation and application of the language found in general liability policies. So the answer to "Is it covered?" often depends on where the claim arises. General Liability Insurance Coverage: Key Issues In Every State, Third Edition, clearly and concisely presents the rules and/or "schools of thought" set forth by each state as well as the District of Columbia. But this unique resource does not simply state the rule in a "vacuum." Instead, it presents all the facts and/or policy language you need in order to understand the rule(s) in context. Quickly and Confidently Determine Likely Outcomes With General Liability Insurance Coverage: Key Issues In Every State, Third Edition, you can quickly compare your issue to the controlling authority and confidently assess how the courts will decide. The twenty-one most commonly occurring general liability issues are covered in full. So this book puts the law of every state right at your fingertips, speeding your research and making it much easier to set strategies and pursue the proper course of action.
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Review
"Drawing on decades of experience and thousands of precedent setting cases across all 50 states, Maniloff and Stempel have assembled the most comprehensive claims coverage reference guide in existence. Every claims professional, underwriter, attorney, broker and insurance regulator should keep a copy of this book at their fingertips." --Robert P. Hartwig, Ph.D., CPCU President, Insurance Information Institute "I have a prominent place in my office for the new and thorough insurance treatise by Randy Maniloff and Jeffrey Stempel. They provide a comprehensive base of insurance law against which to assess the availability of insurance coverage for many current liability exposures. Eminently readable and up to date, this new entrant into the arena of insurance treatises quickly has moved to the top of my list of insurance resources." --Jerold Oshinsky Partner, Jenner & Block LLP "As someone who answers several thousand coverage questions annually f
About the Author
Randy J. Maniloff is a partner at White and Williams LLP in Philadelphia. He concentrates his practice in the representation of insurers in coverage disputes over primary and excess obligations under a host of policies, including commercial general liability and various professional liability policies. Mr. Maniloff is a frequent contributor of articles to Mealey's Litigation Report: Insurance, among other publications, addressing a variety of insurance coverage topics. For the past ten years Mr. Maniloff has published a year-end article in Mealey's that addresses the ten most significant insurance coverage decisions of that year. Mr. Maniloff has also written for such influential organizations as The Federalist Society, Manhattan Institute and Washington Legal Foundation. Mr. Maniloff is a frequent lecturer at industry seminars and has been quoted on insurance coverage topics by such media as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Dow Jones Newswires, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Times-Picayune, and The National Law Journal. Jeffrey Stempel is the Doris S. and Theodore B. Lee Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Stempel is a 1981 graduate of Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and co-founder of the Yale Law and Policy Review. He spent two years as a law clerk to a federal district court judge in Philadelphia and three years in private practice with a firm in Minneapolis before entering the teaching profession. He is the author of Stempel on Insurance Contracts, a practitioner-oriented treatise published by WK Legal.
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