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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana reported the following activities in the suit brought by
Peter S Koeppel against
Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, Inc. on Feb. 12. Notice Of Removal With Jury Demand From Civil District Court, Orleans, Louisiana, Case Number 2020-5045 (filing Fee $ 402 Receipt Number Alaedc-8733654) Filed By Hartford Accident And Indemnity Company, Inc.. (attachments: # 1 Civil Cover Sheet, # 2 Exhibit 1 - Petition, # 3 Exhibit 2 - Amended Petition, # 4 Exhibit 3 - Answer Obo Issac, # 5 Exhibit 4 - Extension, # 6 Exhibit 5 - Answer Obo Hartford, # 7 Exhibit 6 - Mtn To Compel, # 8 Exhibit 7 - Dismissal, # 9 Exhibit 8 - Notice To State Court, # 10 Exhibit 9 - Conn Sec Of State, # 11 Exhibit 10 - Service Lttr, # 12 Exhibit 11 - Demand, # 13 Exhibit 12-Dec Page, # 14 List Of Parties And Pleadings)attorney Alexis R. Jani Added To Party Hartford Accident And Indemnity Company, Inc.(pty:dft
Maryland’s highest court adopts pro rata allocation for asbestos-related bodily injury claims under liability policies. The court began by explaining that injury spanning many years often implicates multiple policies and, therefore, implicates a continuous or injury-in-fact trigger under Maryland law. Adopting the reasoning of
Mayor & City Council of Baltimore v. Utica Mutual Ins. Co., 802 A.2d 1070 (Md. Ct. Spec. App. 2002)
, app. dismissed, 821 A.2d 369 (Md. 2003), it rejected joint and several allocation because of its “poor fit” under the policy language:
[T]he pro rata approach is unmistakably consistent with the language of standard CGL policies. Indeed, “there is no logic to support the notion that one single insurance policy among 20 or 30 years worth of policies could be expected to be held liable for the entire time period.” …Consistent with the policy language limiting coverage to that which occurs “during the policy period,” the timing of the injury di
01/29/21
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Portland, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) - The MEMIC Group has announced it will provide every employee with a pair of K1 Ice Cleats to help prevent slips, trips and falls according to Karl Siegfried, Senior Vice President of Loss Control at the workers compensation insurance company.
“We recommend this cleat to our policyholders as the easiest and most effective tool to prevent slips, trips and falls during the winter months. We decided we ought to be safely ‘walking the walk ourselves so we have offered a pair of cleats to everyone at MEMIC,” said Siegfried. “We want to protect our team members from injuries just as much as the employees of our policyholders.”
Insurance companies must pay NJ Transit for trains damaged by Sandy, N.J. Supreme Court rules
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
The New Jersey Supreme Court backed up a lower court ruling that told insurance companies to pay up after Hurricane Sandy damaged NJ Transit trains parked in the Meadowlands Maintenance Complex train yard that flooded during the October 2012 super storm.
In an opinion released Wednesday the high court echoed a November 2019 appellate court ruling that said the water damage to NJ Transit’s equipment during Sandy was not subject to a $100 million limit. The ruling was unanimous by all seven Supreme Court justices.
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