Manufacturers and the changing environmental landscape: Beware

The growing awareness in the United States regarding carbon emissions and their effect on the environment and weather patterns, have produced an increase in environmental litigation and some important decisions from the United States Supreme Court. Many states and environmental groups have filed law...

There are ways you can to protect yourself from not receiving an optimum claims payout due to CCPR) but they each boil down to remaining vigilant and not hesitating to get help when you need it to protect your insured interests. First and most important is to recognize that the insurance companyR...

The below article appeared originally in the ABA Tips Fall 2012 Issue (48:1) of the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal.  Authors: William A. Schreiner, Jr., Heidi H. Raschke, William R. Lewis, Craig A. Jacobson, Christina M. Phillips, James P. Bobotek, Jay M. Levin, Lisa A. Szymanski, ...

Environmental Risks Advances in the horizontal drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing over the past 10 years has greatly increased the use of the drilling technique by US energy companies in efforts to obtain large amounts of natural gas that was previously unattainable.  Horizontal frack...

Sinkholes are depressions or holes in the Earth’s surface caused by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone.  Subterranean drainage wears away at these layers, carrying away sediment and eventually causing the area above to collapse.  The...

When dealing with property insurance claims after a natural disaster, many policyholders encounter or are educated as to the reinstatement clause in their policy, and how it affects future claims arising from multiple events or disasters.  In some property insurance policies there is a reinstatemen...

Supply chains act as circulation systems for companies, linking the manufacturing and distribution of goods globally.  In the modern era, many businesses have decreased their amount of local “sourcing” in favor of global supply chains in order to minimize costs and raise profits for their share...