BatesCarey LLP is pleased to announce that partners Robert J. Bates, Jr., Scott L. Carey, and Mark G. Sheridan were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America© in the field of Insurance Law. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best...

BatesCarey LLP is pleased to announce that Who’s Who Legal, an independent London-based publishing group, has listed Robert J. Bates, Jr. in its 2016 International Guide as one of the five “Most Highly Regarded Individuals” in the United States in the area of Insurance and Reinsurance, and among the top 15 legal practitioners worldwide. Bob is a founding partner of...

The international research firm, Chambers and Partners, has announced that BatesCarey LLP is ranked as one of the elite eight law firms in Illinois in the area of  Insurance: Dispute Resolution.  Chambers’ worldwide research also awarded individual ranking recognition for attorneys Robert J. Bates, Jr., Scott L. Carey, and Adam H. Fleischer. The USA 2016 Rankings describe...

The Superior Court of Georgia for Fulton County has ruled in favor of a BatesCarey LLP client, holding that a contract exclusion in a D&O Policy unambiguously excluded coverage for Subscription Agreements valued at $1.7 million. An insurer issued a duty-to-defend, Private Company Management Liability Insurance Policy to the insured.  The policy contained a Directors,...

BatesCarey LLP is pleased to announce that twelve of its attorneys have been selected for inclusion in the 2016 Illinois Super Lawyers and Illinois Rising Stars lists. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed a trial court's dismissal of a lawsuit against our client, an insurer that issued an umbrella liability policy covering a municipality and its detectives, alleging bad faith and failure to settle. Kevin Fox v. American Alternative Insurance Corporation, Case No. 13-1290 (7th Cir.). Certain detectives assigned their...

On May 15, 2014, the Superior Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion to dismiss filed by several D&O and E&O insurers, holding that a professional services exclusion relating to one of the insured's affiliated companies barred coverage entirely for the various underlying matters. Carlyle Inv. Mgmt., L.L.C. v. ACE Am. Ins. Co., Case No. 2013 CA 003190 B (D.C....

On May 23, 2014, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington held that, where a "Claim" was first made during the first of two consecutive claims-made-and-reported polices, but not reported until the second policy, no coverage was available under either policy. Great Am. Ins. Co. v. Sea Shepherd Conservation Soc'y, Case No. 13-CV-1017 (W.D. Wash. May 23, 2014)....

Savers Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. v. Indus. Safety & Env’t. Servs. Inc. (N.D. Ind. 2014)

On March 25, 2014, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana granted summary judgment in favor of our client on a retractive coverage date issue. 

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An arbitration panel agreed with BatesCarey LLP's argument that the "follow the fortunes" doctrine did not require a reinsurer to drop down and reinsure any portion of the risk below $1 million, even when the cedent had been required to drop down and pay a loss incepting at less than $1 million. The panel also rejected the cedent's claim for more than $113,000 in interest.