By Jennifer Bentley, Melody Chen, and Tom Goimarac Rising Incidence and Severity of Wildfires in California Wildfires in California are...

Download a PDF of this piece By John Vishneski III, Shanti Eagle, Jalen Brown, Andrew Athenson, J. Mark Hart, and Benjamin Reardon...

Out of the 1,199 (and counting) trial court rulings addressing Covid business interruption lawsuits, only one of them resulted in a...

Download a PDF of this piece The Southern California wildfire crisis struck just when the Department of Insurance’s “Sustainable...

This summary of a recently filed complaint illustrates one of the worst-case scenarios an insured defendant can find itself in: getting...

Our hearts are with all of the fire victims in this devastating time. This advice is not new, but it bears re-circulating due to the...

Download a PDF of this piece Sept. 21, 2024 marked the one-year anniversary of Governor Newsom’s executive order directing the Department...

We keep hearing about how difficult it is for winery and vineyard owners to get property insurance these days, both for their homes and...

Despite a statute allowing insureds the right to record Examination Under Oath proceedings in their entirety, Nationwide took the...

Advancing his “Sustainable Insurance Strategy” announced last September, Commissioner Lara recently announced  “the first of several...

By Jalen M. Brown, Kristin Davis, Shanti Eagle, Peter J. Georgiton, and J. Mark Hart Part 1 of our two-part article addressed the...

Many wineries operate as closely held companies, meaning they’re owned by an individual or small group of shareholders, who are often...

Download a PDF of this piece By Jalen M. Brown, Kristin Davis, Shanti Eagle, PeterJ. Georgiton, and John Mark Hart When an insurer...

(As published in Private Company Director) Disputes regarding ownership interests often arise in the context of closely held...

To combat a perceived litigation tactic by plaintiffs counsel of using settlement demands within policy limits to set up insurers for bad...

More and more, companies generate revenue through the use of their customers' or users' mobile devices. This interaction takes many...