Pleading and Proving Covered and Non-Covered Liability and Damages in Insurance Liability Suits
Securing Valuable Insurance Coverage and Exposing Disqualifying Conflicts of Interest With Insurer-Selected Counsel
A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
This CLE webinar will address how lawyers may properly plead and prove covered and non-covered liability and damages, supplementing pleadings so as to encourage prompt and equitable settlements funded by liability insurers.
Outline
- Introduction
- The hypothetical situation
- Why plead into (or out of) insurance coverage and conflicts of interest?
- How to plead into (or out of) insurance coverage or conflicts
- The legal tests to trigger coverages
- Understanding the liability insurer's coverage challenge
- How to plead into coverage
- How to plead and prove disqualifying conflicts of interest
- Plaintiff's counsel and independent counsel cooperation
Benefits
The panel will review these and other issues:
- Why plead into (or out of) liability insurance coverage?
- How to plead and prove truthful facts to trigger the duty to defend, prove the duty to indemnify, and possibly ripen appointed defense counsel's ethical conflicts of interest
- How to understand the defendant's insurance coverage
- How plaintiffs and policyholders may properly cooperate to achieve shared goals of securing insurance coverage that benefits both
Faculty
Early Discount (through 05/31/24)
Cannot Attend June 25?
Early Discount (through 05/31/24)
You may pre-order a recording to listen at your convenience. Recordings are available 48 hours after the webinar. Strafford will process CLE credit for one person on each recording. All formats include course handouts.