Free Commercial Liability Commentary
Liability Insurance
"Primary and Noncontributory"
Best Laid Plans: How the Definition of "Occurrence" in CGL Cases
Continues To Change
Is an Occurrence the Bodily Injury or Property Damage?
Additional Insured Status—Automatic or Wet Blanket?
Legal Separation—The Severability Test in the CGL
Do CGL Policies Cover "Rip and Tear" Expenses?
The Increasingly Complex CGL Policy
Pay Me Back! Reimbursement of Defense Costs in the CGL
"Arising Out of": How Strong Is the Connection?
The Recall Expense Exclusion—When Your Ship Does Not Come In
Invisible Ink: The Duty To Defend When There Is No Duty To Defend
The Impaired Property Exclusion
Top 10 Problems with Follow-Form Coverage
Lowered Expectation: How Courts Treat Expected Injury Exclusions
A High-Level View of the CGL Policy
The Duty To Defend: The Four(ish) Corners Rule
OCP Liability versus Additional Insured Coverage
What Satisfies the Self-Insured Retention?
Contractual Confusion—Assuming the Liability of Others
The Persistence of Indemnity
Other Insurance and the CGL Policy
CGL Insurance and the Question of Intent
Trigger Theories and the CGL
Care, Custody, or Control Exclusion in the CGL
Coverage Trigger: Getting It Right for the Right Reason
The Future Is Now: When Eventual Indemnity Obligations become Present
Defense Obligations
CGL Insurance 2007 Edition—A Summary of Changes
Variations on a Theme: When the Cause Theory Determines the Number
of Occurrences
CGL Exclusion for Expected or Intended Injury
The Burden To Allocate: Mine, Yours, or Ours?
Liquor Liability Exclusion in the CGL
Insurance Law and Exclusion (m)
Allocating Losses under a 1973 CGL
When Workers Aren't Employees
In Defense of Insured Contracts
More Allocation Theories: Exhaustion
No Harm, No Coverage—Personal and Advertising Injury Liability Coverage
in the CGL (Part 1)
No Harm, No Coverage—Personal and Advertising Injury Liability Coverage
in the CGL (Part 2)
Cover Me: The Subcontractor Exception to the Your [Completed] Work
Exclusion
The Scope of "Ongoing Operations" Additional Insured Endorsements:
Broader than Expected
When Does Liability Coverage Exist for Mental Anguish without Bodily
Injury?
The Hazards of Products and Completed Operations
Pre-Tender Defense Costs: Who Pays?
Are Products Advertisements That Give Rise to Advertising Injury
Coverage?
Additional Insured Endorsements—A Potential Minefield (Part 1)
Additional Insured Endorsements—A Potential Minefield (Part 2)
Additional Insured Endorsements—A Potential Minefield (Part 3)
Allocation of Damages for Ongoing Losses over Multiple Policies
Auto versus Mobile Equipment in the 2004 CGL—An Update
The Scope of the Prior Publication Exclusion: Now You See It, Now
You Don't
Faulty Work and the CGL
Insurers: Can You Get Your Defense Dollars Back?
CGL—Fire Legal
CGL—Covered Locations
A Summary of December 2004 ISO CGL Policy Changes
How the Limits Apply in the CGL
Additional Insured Changes in the CGL
The 2004 ISO CGL Policy
Some Common Coverage Misconceptions of the CGL Policy
Known Injury or Damage
When Is an Insured Not an Insured?
The CGL Pollution Exclusion
Auto versus Mobile Equipment in the CGL
Duty to Defend in the CGL Policy
Contractual Liability and the CGL Policy
Insurance Litigation Review: 2001
The 2001 ISO CGL Revision
What Does "Separation of Insureds" Mean (Part 1)
What Does "Separation of Insureds" Mean (Part 2)
Insurance Coverage Disputes and Society's Problems
Coordinating Persons Insured in Primary and Excess Liability Policies
Gun Violence and the CGL Policy
Spoliation of Evidence: The Next Frontier for Insurance Coverage
Battles
Who Wants To Be an Insured?
When a Breach of Contract Constitutes an Accident
When Negligent Conduct Does Not Constitute an Accident
The 1999 CGL Insuring Agreement: ISO's "Montrose Endorsement"
Additionally Insured or Held Harmful?
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