The New York State Department of Financial Services has told IIABNY that, where a liability insurance policy contains an automatic or blanket additional insured endorsement, certificates of insurance may name…
E&O Tip Homeowners’ policies vary, as do the interpretations of business use by individual insurers. Be sure that you understand how each policy you offer and each insurer will respond…
I have returned this morning from 11 days off. I spent a few days in the Thousand Islands region with some college friends, spent a week with my family on…
Last year, I developed and taught a continuing education course titled Absolute Liability: New York’s Scaffold Law and the Courts. The course looked at the history and interpretation of New York…
New York’s so-called “scaffold law” (Sections 240(1) and 241(6) of the state’s Labor Law) has become notorious. Detractors in the insurance, construction, and real estate industries say it is unfair, redundant, and the…
Question from IIABNY member: “We have an insured that approached us with a question– he has a NY auto policy and he’s going to California for four months, as he does…
