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News 12/08/2019
Philadelphia partner hire for Kennedys boosts insurance capabilities
We are pleased to announce the addition of insurance coverage attorney Louis Kozloff. With over 20 years’ experience in the insurance field, Lou represents insurers in coverage and bad faith litigation, and regularly advises insurance industry clients on a wide variety of coverage issues, including directors’ and officers’, errors and omissions, general liability, marine and extra-contractual exposure matters. He joins as a partner in our Philadelphia office.
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News 22/07/2019
Autonomous vehicles: Britons lag behind rest of world in support for driverless cars
British people are the least supportive nation in their attitude towards driverless cars, or indeed any form of autonomous vehicle (AV), according to a study across six territories (United Kingdom, United States, Australia, China, Singapore and Hong Kong).
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News 16/05/2019
Kennedys boosts financial lines practice with double partner hire
We are pleased to announce that financial lines specialists Maurice Pesso and Greg Steinberg have joined as partners in the US. The duo join from White and Williams LLP where they were partner and counsel respectively. Maurice Pesso will be based in our New Jersey office and Greg Steinberg in New York.
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News 10/05/2019
Kennedys promotes ten to global partnership
We are very pleased to announce that we have promoted ten lawyers to our partnership, with nine based in the UK and one in the US.
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Article 06/05/2019
Opioid litigation keeps moving forward and continues to raise coverage issues
In recent years, state and local governments, labor unions, hospitals, and health insurers have filed well over a thousand lawsuits in courts across the country against pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of opioids.
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Article 02/05/2019
A rare late notice holding in New Jersey
New Jersey courts rarely find late notice of a claim to be a proper basis for an insurer to disclaim coverage under an occurrence policy.
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Article 02/05/2019
The rule of contra preferentem cannot be applied absent the parties' consent to class arbitration
On April 24, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its third opinion concerning arbitration during this term, holding that the doctrine of contra preferentem cannot be applied to an ambiguous arbitration agreement to impose class arbitration in a commercial contract.
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Article 02/05/2019
Insuring the emerging cannabis industry
New Jersey’s recent cancellation of a scheduled vote on its Cannabis Regulatory and Expungement Aid Modernization Act, which would have legalized recreational use of marijuana, leaves New Jersey among the states where only medicinal marijuana is legal, for now.
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Article 29/04/2019
Notice, prejudice, and first-party property damage claims
Notice conditions in policies require insureds to provide their insurers with timely notice of a loss or occurrence giving rise to a claim.
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Article 27/03/2019
“Getting to” defective work; courts split on whether “rip and tear” costs are covered
“Rip and tear” damages are the costs of removal and replacement of non-defective property required to repair defective work, also known as “get to” damages.