SDV Insights

Policyholders may remember when it was groundbreaking for courts to characterize the EPA’s Potentially Responsible Party letters as a “suit,” triggering the duty to defend under a Commercial General Liability policy.

What happens when an insurance company refuses to listen to its own experts and counsel? An aggressive lawsuit and an expensive bad faith award.

SDV’s own Gregory Podolak is well known in the cyber risk world. He’s been quoted recently in two articl ...

The “pollution exclusion” contained in an insured’s policy was at issue in a recent case in Georgia (Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. v. Smith et al., 2016 Ga. LEXIS 245).

Did you know that insurance coverage issues can arise from events that took place over 100 years ago?

The ancient document exception to the Federal Rules of Evidence hearsay rule is an important tool for policyholders to put the content of a lost policy into evidence. Long tail claims in occurrence based policies (such as asbestos claims) can be brought many years after the policy was procured. If the policy is subsequently lost, the ancient documents rule is often the only way that a policyholder can establish the content of their policy and receive coverage.

On April 11, 2016, the Fourth Circuit held that a records storage company was entitled to a defense under its CGL policy for a class action lawsuit claiming that the company failed to safeguard confidential medical records.

The website LAW360.com has once again reached out to SDV’s Gregory D. Podolak to get his input on a number of ...

This week, as part of IRMI’s Expert Commentary Series, Gregory D. Podolak and H. Scott Williams authored an article addressing recent insurance developments and the resulting impact on the co ...

The Ninth Circuit affirmed the District Court decision that Scottsdale Insurance Co. breached the duty to defend its policyholder, a home builder, in an underlying construction defect lawsuit broug ...