The evolution of umbrella and other catastrophe liability insurance forms provides context for today's excess and hybrid umbrella types and their uses. It is important for readers to note that the ...

The case involved A.R. Wilfley & Sons, a Colorado pump manufacturer facing decades of asbestos bodily-injury lawsuits.

Whenever you make a claim on an insurance policy, such as travel, car, home or pet cover, the payment you receive will have an amount deducted by the insurer. This is known as the excess. It is ...

Excess insurance policies are generally written to be just that; they—through their “other insurance” provisions—purport apply in excess of other insurance available to the insured. In many ...

Are a party's legal expenses, such as attorney's fees, considered "damages" subject to coverage under an excess liability policy? The Supreme Court of Texas ruled that a commercial insured’s legal ...

For nearly 100 years, courts across the country have followed the established majority view that an excess insurer may not avoid its coverage obligation by imposing technical requirements on the ...

In Guideone v. Systems 2000, the court reformed an excess insurance policy to remove a residential-work exclusion after finding clear evidence of mutual mistake, as both parties understood the policy ...

Torrent Technologies Inc., a Marsh company, on Thursday said it has launched an excess flood insurance policy in cooperation with Torrent’s Write-Your-Own insurers participating in the National Flood ...

TripExcess provides a fast, flexible alternative to traditional annual excess policies. It allows motor carriers to obtain coverage on demand through a seamless online portal. Users can quote, bind, ...