Northwest Insurance Law Quarterly Newsletter: Winter 2025
Please find the Winter 2025 edition of the Williams Kastner Northwest Insurance Law Newsletter. Our newsletter features articles regarding some of the most important decisions and developments in insurance law over the past few months. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Eliot Harris. Follow us on LinkedIn for more legal updates.
Washington Federal Court Finds Liability Insurer Owed No Duty to Defend Behavioral Health Facility from Allegations of Abuse Under EPL and D&O Policy
With the rise of abuse lawsuits in the past decade or so, and various insurers including additional language in liability policies to limit, or outright exclude coverage for such claims, Washington Courts have been faced with an increasing number of coverage lawsuits for abuse claims. One of the most recent decisions on this issue is...
Northwest Insurance Law Quarterly Newsletter: Fall 2024
Please find the Fall 2024 edition of the Williams Kastner Northwest Insurance Law Newsletter. Our newsletter features articles regarding some of the most important decisions and developments in insurance law over the past few months. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Eliot Harris. Follow us on LinkedIn for more legal updates.
Washington State Court of Appeals Finds that Covenant Judgment Not Binding on Insurer Without Notice and Opportunity to be Heard Prior to Reasonableness Hearing
Washington courts have long held that an insured may enter into a stipulated (or “covenant”) judgment with the plaintiff in a lawsuit. Whether the insurer is liable for the amount of the stipulated judgment usually is decided in a subsequent bad faith lawsuit. However, before that happens, the insured and the plaintiff must conduct a...
Northwest Insurance Law Quarterly Newsletter: Spring 2024
Please find the Spring 2024 edition of the Williams Kastner Northwest Insurance Law Newsletter. Our newsletter features articles regarding some of the most important decisions and developments in insurance law over the past few months. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Eliot Harris. Follow us on LinkedIn for more legal updates.
NORTHWEST INSURANCE LAW QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER SPRING 2023
Please find the Spring 2023 edition of the Williams Kastner Northwest Insurance Law Newsletter. Our newsletter features articles regarding some of the most important decisions and developments in insurance law over the past few months. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Eliot Harris. Follow us on LinkedIn for more legal updates.
Northwest Insurance Law Quarterly Newsletter Winter 2023
Please find the Winter 2023 edition of the Williams Kastner Northwest Insurance Law Newsletter. Our newsletter features articles regarding some of the most important decisions and developments in insurance law over the past few months. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Eliot Harris. Follow us on LinkedIn for more legal updates.
Williams Kastner: Northwest Insurance Law Quarterly Newsletter Summer 2022
Please find the Summer 2022 edition of the Williams Kastner Northwest Insurance Law Newsletter. Our newsletter features articles regarding some of the most important decisions and developments in insurance law over the past few months. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Eliot Harris. Follow us on LinkedIn for more legal updates.
Summer 2020 Northwest Insurance Law Quarterly Newsletter
Please find the Summer 2020 edition of the Williams Kastner Northwest Insurance Law Newsletter. Our newsletter features articles regarding some of the most important decisions and developments in insurance law over the past few months. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Eliot Harris.
QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER WINTER 2020
OVERVIEW OF POTENTIAL COVERAGE ISSUES IN CLAIM RELATED TO THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC The rapid spread of coronavirus in the United States is causing businesses to shut their doors and people to remain at home as much as possible. In the midst of this truly unprecedented event in recent history, insurers should be prepared for a...
Washington Federal Court Enforces Endorsement Allowing Insurer to Recoup Defense Costs for Uncovered Claims
Quarterly Newsletter Winter 2019 In 2013, the Washington Supreme Court rendered a decision in Nat’l Sur. Corp. v. Immunex Corp., 297 P.3d 688, 691 (Wash. 2013) that an insurer could not seek recoupment of defense costs incurred for uncovered claims when it defended an insured under a reservation of rights. While the Immunex decision rejected...
Washington Federal Court Find Insurer Cannot Refuse to Cover Defense Costs Without Showing of “Actual Prejudice”
Quarterly Newsletter Winter 2019 Washington, like many states, requires an insurer to show that its rights have been prejudiced before it can refuse to cover costs incurred by the insured without the insurer’s consent. Defining prejudice under the circumstances is an often debated (and litigated) topic. Recently, a Washington federal judge weighed in on this...