Michael H.Passman and Swiss Re Corporate Solutions' Michael J. DeLonay examine how courts are determining the number of occurrences in insurance policies that may be implicated by claims in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

I. Jordan Lowe discuss how concussion litigation will be affected by developments in diagnosing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease associated with a history of repetitive brain injuries, in living patients.

Michael "Mickey" Passman unpacked the Illinois Appellate Court’s confirmation of Dominick’s Finer Foods v. Indiana Insurance Co.in his March 2018 Insurance Law IICLE Flashpoints column.  At issue was the well-established rule that where there is bona fide dispute concerning coverage, statutory penalties should not be assessed against an insurer that denies a claim, even...

As possible solutions to the opioid crisis have emerged, the question becomes whether the government, pharmaceutical companies or insurers should fund these expensive efforts for wholesale societal repair. Adam H. Fleischer, Chair of BatesCarey’s Opioid Coverage Task Force, sheds light... 

Head of BatesCarey's Opioid Coverage Task Force Adam Fleischer was featured in the February 2018 issue of CLM Magazine's Between The Lines Q&A in which various industry leaders weighed in on how opioid litigation will evolve in the coming year.

In light of a few recent large verdicts in the Chicago area, insurers need to understand potential impacts and the importance of having the legal tool of remittitur at the ready, according to Agelo L. Reppas in her recent Law360 analysis.

With a federal judge revealing his determination to resolve opioid claims without briefs or trials, and with journalistic investigations blowing open the distributors’ culpability, there may be a massive opioid settlement looming in 2018, according to Adam Fleischer and Kevin Harris of BatesCarey’s Opioid Coverage Task Force.

Jason P. Minkin and Brian J. Watson have published a Wrongful Birth Survey of Reported Verdicts and Settlements in DRI’s The Voice (Volume 16 Issue 43).  The Survey addresses verdicts and settlements reported in wrongful birth cases across the country, spanning the last 15 years, in order to better understand the potential exposure presented by wrongful birth claims.  A full...

Adam Fleischer and Kevin Harris of BatesCarey’s Opioid Coverage Task Force published an article on Law360.com discussing the significance of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation’s possible consolidation of opioid litigation pending nationally into a single multidistrict litigation or “MDL”. This byline was the 8th most-read article across all of Law360’s coverage in 2017.

Jason P. Minkin and Amanda E. Bushemi published an article in DRI’s The Critical Path Construction Law Newsletter entitled Recent Developments in Architects and Engineers Claims.  This article discusses several recent noteworthy decisions from courts across the U.S. examining liability and insurance coverage issues that impact architects and engineers.