BatesCarey associate Paige M. Houin will speak at the 2021 Claims and Litigation Management Alliance Annual Conference on August 12, 2021 at 2:00 PM about a variety of factors contributing to social inflation.

David M. Alt and Andrew S. Chestnut discuss new Illinois legislation effective July 1, 2021, that will add 6% prejudgment interest to damages awards in personal injury lawsuits and arbitrations.

In their recent Law360 Expert Analysis, BatesCarey’s Kristi S. Nolley and Lindsey D. Dean address rejection of the notice-prejudice rule for claims-made-and-reported policies in a matter of first impression in Kentucky.

In a recent Law360 piece, Adam analyzes the reconsidered ruling in Giant Eagle v. American Guarantee, et al., which provides assurance to excess carriers that opioid defendants facing millions of dollars in defense costs cannot use those costs as a means to leapfrog their primary coverage and proceed up their insurance towers to reach excess layers.

BatesCarey's Joanna Gau Swartout discussed the Illinois Supreme Court's recent decision that an insurer owes a duty to defend a policyholder in a putative class action complaint alleging violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act related to the collection of customers’ fingerprints at a L.A. Tan franchise in West Bend Mut. Ins. Co. v. Krishna Schaumburg Tan, Inc., 2021 IL 125978.

BatesCarey and its attorneys once again earned top recognition for insurance coverage firms from Chambers USA, making 2021 its 17th year of consecutive accolades from the legal industry’s most respected rankings list.

BatesCarey’s Kristi S. Nolley and Lindsey D. Dean address the recent Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Global Fitness Holdings, LLC v. Navigators Mgt. Co., Inc., et al., which held that a contractual liability exclusion in a directors and officers liability policy precluded coverage for claims sounding in both tort and contract.

BatesCarey announced today the addition of Craig M. Leff, who joins as a partner and brings more than 30 years of trial experience to the firm’s insurance coverage practice.

Robert J. Bates, Jr. and Adam H. Fleischer were once again named Who’s Who Legal Thought Leaders in this prestigious annual rankings. Bates was also one of just ten attorneys ranked as a Global Elite Thought Leader in the United States.

BatesCarey’s Kristi S. Nolley and Lindsey D. Dean address the recent Kentucky Court of Appeals decision in Darwin Nat’l Assurance Co. v. Kentucky State Univ., which addresses as a matter of first impression the notice-prejudice rules in the context of claims-made-and-reported policies.