Practitionerand’s Guide to Litigating Insurance Coverage Actions, Second Edition is a comprehensive, two-volume manual that offers an excellent framework for understanding the complex practical and procedural issues that can arise in insurance coverage disputes. Written by insurance litigators with extensive experience from both the policyholder and insurance company perspective, Practitionerand’s Guide to Litigating Insurance Coverage Actions reveals hard-won strategies and proven-effective litigation tools to help you successfully prepare or defend an insurance coverage case. Masterfully organized and streamlined in a two-volume format, Practitionerand’s Guide to Litigating Insurance Coverage Actions walks you through the logical sequence of events as an insurance coverage litigation case evolves. Youand’ll find: Step-by-step guidance through every stage of case preparation and litigation. Balanced and“best-practiceand” recommendations for counsel to policyholders and insurance companies. And much more! Model Forms include: Notice Letters Initial Pleadings Preliminary Motions Discovery Requests Summary Judgment Motions Motions at Trial Opening and Closing Statements Trial Briefs and Jury Instructions Motions and Briefs during Appeals Process Settlement Agreements

Complete with a state-by-state analysis of the ways in which the class action rules differ from the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, this comprehensive guide provides practitioners with an understanding of the intricacies of a class action lawsuit. Multiple authors contributed to the book, mainly 12 top litigators at the premiere law firm of Fulbright and Jaworski, L.L.P.

Securities Litigation: A Practitioner's Guide can help companies cope effectively with this major challenge, by providing you with the guidance you need to help your clients get the competitive edge in securities class actions.

The absence of persuasive precedents may prevent some attorneys from framing the effective policyholder arguments in insurance coverage litigation. With Insurance Coverage Litigation, Second Edition, youand’ll discover how the experts analyze the facts to win your next insurance coverage case. This unique resource provides comprehensive examination of the full range of issues shaping insurance coverage cases being heard in the courts todayand—including the publicly available, but hard-to-find industry and“loreand” that savvy insurance practitioners use to win complex insurance coverage cases. Whichever side you represent in the billion dollar insurance coverage field, this work contains vital information you canand’t afford to be without when preparing a case for state or federal court. Insurance Coverage Litigation supplies: Extensive analyses of case law on insurance coverage issues arising under general liability insurance policies. Sample CGL Policy Forms. The most in-depth discussion of the drafting history of standard-form general liability insurance policy languageand—including language derived from the insurance industryand’s own representations to the public, governmental agencies, courts and policyholdersand—one of the most powerful tools available to policyholders. Easy-reference tables and state-by-state summaries that help you quickly grasp and compare court interpretations on a broad range of issues including the reasonable expectation doctrine, trigger of coverage and allocation, notice of claim or action, and insurability of punitive damages. Cutting edge analysis and guidance on rapidly evolving areas such as environmental liability, intellectual property disputes, and“cyberand” losses and liability, terrorism coverage, and more.

Employment Practices Liability insurance is a relatively recent phenomenon on the propert-casualty insurance industry. The Practitioners Guide to Defense of EPL Claims is a new guide by the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section that covers punitive damages, investigating EPLI-covered claims, emotional injury, and litigation of EPLI claims.

No-fault insurance fraud amounts to a significant "fraud tax" on consumers, estimated at billions of dollars each year. This is a practice-focused guide to the litigation and settlement of no-fault insurance anti-fraud cases, from inception through summary judgment.