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Hermes, Netburn, O’Connor & Spearing, P.C. Swiftly Helps Client Avoid Significant Business Complications caused by its Reinsurer
Boston, MA Hermes, Netburn, O’Connor & Spearing, P.C. represented a major international corporation which self-insured its workers’ compensation coverage with a fronting insurer. The fronting insurer attempted to obtain substantially increased letters…
Nat’l Football League v. Fireman’s Fund Ins. Co., 157 Cal.Rptr.3d 318 (2013)
Insured sought indemnity and defense declaration with respect to insurance coverage for underlying concussion-related bodily injury claims. The Superior Court stayed the California declaratory judgment action in favor of pending New York…
Vicor Corp. v. Vigilant Ins. Co., 674 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2012)
Liability insurance coverage litigation in which the insured sought to recover for damages because of failures of wireless telecommunications equipment. Citing an absence of controlling legal precedent, the Court of Appeals for…
Colgate-Palmolive Co. v. OneBeacon Am. Ins. Co., 82 Mass.App.Ct. 1123 (2012)
Liability insurance coverage litigation in which the insured sought an indemnity and defense declaration with respect to insurance coverage for underlying asbestos bodily injury claims. The Massachusetts Appeals Court affirmed the trial…
Mass. Homeland Ins. Co. v. Walsh, 79 Mass. App. Ct. 1110 (2011)
Decision affirmed Superior Court grant of summary judgment that a series of intentional rammings of one vehicle by another over 15 minutes was one accident and reversed a holding that intentional conduct…
Norfolk & Dedham Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Morrison, 456 Mass. 463 (2010)
Decision reversing a Superior Court holding that G.L. c. 186, § 15 prohibited a landlord from requiring a tenant to add the landlord as an additional insured on the tenant’s insurance. In…
