Insurance Law Institute 2023
Date: Oct 24, 2023 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: Online
Areas of Law: Insurance
Earn up to 6.7 credits! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- Julia Talarick, Esq.
- Kinney Lisovicz Reilly & Wolff PC, Parsippany
Presenters
- Bethany L. Barrese, Esq.
- Saxe Doernberger & Vita, PC, Basking Ridge
- Maida Chinosi, Esq.
- Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Union
- Kathleen J. Devlin, Esq.
- Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP, Bedminster
- Eric Jesse, Esq.
- Lowenstein Sandler LLP, Roseland
- Ashley Lauren Turner, Esq.
- McCarter & English, Newark
- Tracey K. Wishert, Esq.
- Riker Danzig, LLP, Morristown
- Kevin E. Wolff, Esq.
- Kinney Lisovicz Reilly & Wolff PC, Parsippany
Presented in cooperation with the NJSBA Insurance Law Section
This year's Insurance Law Institute will focus on an insurer’s duty to defend. Questions that will be explored include:
- When does the insurer have a duty to defend?
- When can an insured recoup defense costs?
- When should an insurer not defend?
- What should a reservation of rights letter contain?
- What happens when an insurer fails to defend?
Our panel of NJ insurance law attorneys will address these questions and more as they demystify the duty to defend.
Topics include:
- Duty to Defend
- What is it?
- Policy language
- Four corners test
- Facts outside complaint
- Historical overview
- Tenders
- Recoupment of defense costs
- coverage (or not) for pre-tender defense fees
- Defend claims or suits
- Cost share agreement and allocation
- Conflicts – can insurer defend?
- What are the scenarios?
- Material misrepresentation
- Can insurer offer a defense?
- Rescission and timing
- What is it?
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Reservation of Rights Letters
- Magical words
- Named insured v. additional insured
- Timing
- Assignment of counsel
- Raising coverage defenses
- In ROR
- Catchall phrase
- In denial letter
- In ROR
- Consequences of a wrongful failure to defend
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