Elizabeth G Doolin, Julie F Wall, Joseph R Jeffery, Victor F Terrizzi
{"title":"Recent Developments in Health Insurance, Life Insurance, and Disability Insurance Law.","authors":"Elizabeth G Doolin, Julie F Wall, Joseph R Jeffery, Victor F Terrizzi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":86278,"journal":{"name":"Tort trial & insurance practice law journal","volume":"53 2","pages":"429-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36326992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David B Torrey, Lawrence D McIntyre, Kyle D Black, Justin D Beck
{"title":"Recent Developments in Workers' Compensation and Employers' Liability Law.","authors":"David B Torrey, Lawrence D McIntyre, Kyle D Black, Justin D Beck","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This survey reviews significant statutory developments and appellate court decisions addressing workers' compensation issues for the period from October 2016 through September 2017. Workers' compensation systems are state statutory programs; the direct effect of statutes and precedents outside of their state of origin is limited. Nevertheless, compensation principles and laws have much in common among states and much can be learned from studying how legislatures and courts of other jurisdictions have treated similar issues. It is notable that when state courts cannot adjudicate an issue based solely upon a statute’s plain language, and no precedent of the jurisdiction is determinative, they often consider authority from other states. Given the state-based character of compensation laws, not all of the cases discussed here can be considered to be landmark decisions, but they are significant for what they can teach lawyers and judges about how workers’ compensation laws are structured and interpreted.</p>","PeriodicalId":86278,"journal":{"name":"Tort trial & insurance practice law journal","volume":"53 2","pages":"703-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36326344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alex Selarnik, Anupama Prasad, Eliot M Harris, Reshvin Sidhu, Brian Margolies, Andrew G May
{"title":"Recent Developments in Insurance Coverage.","authors":"Alex Selarnik, Anupama Prasad, Eliot M Harris, Reshvin Sidhu, Brian Margolies, Andrew G May","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article highlights significant insurance coverage cases from October 1, 2016, to September 30, 2017. This past year, insurance coverage law saw many developments addressing a wide variety of issues. While state and federal courts are frequently divided on their approach to coverage issues, this article attempts to identify regional trends with the aim of assisting practitioners nationwide. The following sections are a review of particularly important decisions in insurance coverage law, including cyber insurance, the efficient proximate cause doctrine, declaratory judgment actions, and recent developments in the application of the pollution exclusion in general liability policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":86278,"journal":{"name":"Tort trial & insurance practice law journal","volume":"53 2","pages":"477-505"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36326982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cracking the Medicare Secondary Payer Enigma Code.","authors":"Barron F Dickinson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":86278,"journal":{"name":"Tort trial & insurance practice law journal","volume":"52 3","pages":"921-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36324968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David B Torrey, Lawrence D McIntyre, Kyle D Black, Justin D Beck
{"title":"Recent Developments In Workers’ Compensation And Employers' Liability Law.","authors":"David B Torrey, Lawrence D McIntyre, Kyle D Black, Justin D Beck","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This survey reviews significant statutory developments and appellate court decisions addressing workers’ compensation issues for the period from October 2015 through September 2016. Workers' compensation systems are state statutory programs, and the direct effect of laws and case precedents outside of their state of origin is limited. Nevertheless, compensation principles and statutes have much in common among states and much can be learned from studying how legislatures and courts of other jurisdictions have treated similar issues. Notably, when state courts cannot adjudicate an issue based solely upon a statute’s plain language and no precedent of the jurisdiction is determinative, they often consider authority from other states</p>","PeriodicalId":86278,"journal":{"name":"Tort trial & insurance practice law journal","volume":"52 2","pages":"709-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36909815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent Developments in Medicine and the Law.","authors":"Mariel Taylor, Caitlin Sweppe, Peter Mueller","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article discusses recent developments in three areas, all of which relate to discovery in medical malpractice cases. The first topic is claims of spoliation in the context of medical malpractice. The second topic is the evolving peer review privilege and its limitation or expansion by state courts. Finally, we discuss two important cases in which state courts have interpreted HIPAA’s privacy rules and applied them in the context of ex parte communications with treating physicians and pre-suit discovery of a plaintiff's medical information.</p>","PeriodicalId":86278,"journal":{"name":"Tort trial & insurance practice law journal","volume":"51 2","pages":"582-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36325881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent Developments in Workers' Compensation and Employers' Liability Law.","authors":"David B Torrey, Lawrence D McIntyre","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This survey reviews significant statutory developments and appellate court decisions addressing workers' compensation issues for the period from October 2014 through September 2015. Workers’ compensation systems are state statutory programs, and the direct effect of laws and case precedents outside of their state of origin is limited. Nevertheless, compensation principles and statutes have much in common among states and much can be learned from studying how legislatures and courts of other jurisdictions have treated similar issues. Notably, when state courts cannot adjudicate an issue based solely upon a statute’s plain language, and no precedent of the jurisdiction is determinative, they often look to authority from other states.</p>","PeriodicalId":86278,"journal":{"name":"Tort trial & insurance practice law journal","volume":"51 2","pages":"750-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36325883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Opt-Out Workers' Compensation Legislation: a Critical Briefing and the Vasquez v. Dillard's Case (2016).","authors":"David B Torrey","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":86278,"journal":{"name":"Tort trial & insurance practice law journal","volume":"52 1","pages":"39-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34761274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
William A Chittenden, Elizabeth G Doolin, Julie F Wall, Joseph R Jeffery
{"title":"Recent Developments in Health Insurance, Life Insurance, and Disability Insurance Law.","authors":"William A Chittenden, Elizabeth G Doolin, Julie F Wall, Joseph R Jeffery","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This year's article covers key recent developments in life, health, and disability insurance law, including Supreme Court decisions on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's contraception coverage provisions and on the enforceability of legal actions limitations period provisions in Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plan documents; an alarming (but potentially short-lived) expansion of restitution as a form of \"equitable relief\" under ERISA; the latest battles in the stranger originated life insurance (STOLI) wars; and perennial issues arising out of disability and accident insurance cases.</p>","PeriodicalId":86278,"journal":{"name":"Tort trial & insurance practice law journal","volume":"50 2","pages":"401-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36324966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Josheph J Hasman, William A Chittenden, Elizabeth G Doolin, Julie F Wall
{"title":"Recent developments in health insurance, life insurance, and disability insurance case law.","authors":"Josheph J Hasman, William A Chittenden, Elizabeth G Doolin, Julie F Wall","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":86278,"journal":{"name":"Tort trial & insurance practice law journal","volume":"44 2","pages":"501-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28231946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}