AXA General Insurance Ltd v Lord Advocate : analysis

Discusses the Supreme Court decision in AXA General Insurance Ltd, Petitioners on whether Scottish legislation which reversed a House of Lords ruling concerning the actionability of certain asbestos-related conditions breached insurers' rights

Legal Aspects of Counterinsugency

You have studied, thought, talked about and listened to various facets of the problem of counterinsurgency-the political factors, the sociological, economic, and even the military factors. But what on earth does law have to do with this subject

Hsian, the capital of Shensi : past and present

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The Tale of a Tail

The commercial general liability insurance industry shifted, in 1986, from the use of an “occurrence-based” to a “claims-made” policy form. So-called “tail” or “long tail” claims have continued nevertheless, to be asserted under the older “occurrence” policies which required that injury occur during the term of the policy, but not that the claim for such injury be made or brought at any particular time. In seeking state approval to use the new “claims-made” form in 1985-86, the insurance industry represented that the new form would not affect coverage under the old “occurrence” form. Despite that representation, insurers are now asserting, in the guise of an “allocation” claim, that “occurrence coverage” is progressively reduced as each year goes by between the date of the “occurrence” and when the claim is made. This assertion involves a contrived, intricate, and novel interpretation of an ambiguous insurance policy provision, and thus cuts across well-accepted canons of insurance policy interpretation. Such an interpretation would impair coverage that has already attached, and would also impair reasonable expectations on the part of the insured

A Tribute to Peter S. Popovich

A tribute to Peter S. Popovich, Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court 1989-1990 and William Mitchell College of Law alumni