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... Corporation. Pursuant to that contract, Galaxy purchased from Commercial Underwriters Insurance Company (which became Allied World Assurance Company (U.S.), Inc.) a $1 million OCP ... causes of action-three against the CUIC defendants (North American Specialty Assurance Company and Allied World Assurance Company (US), Inc.), alone and two ... exercise of honest discretion"). After such appointment has been made, the primary insurer's obligation is not necessarily satisfied. Feliberty v Damon, 72 NY2d ...

... for malpractice against a law firm retained by the primary insurer to defend the insured as there was no privity or even "near privity" with the law firm. Federal Ins. Co. v. North American Specialty Ins. Co., 2007 N.Y. Slip. Op. ... Contracting Corp. and several property owners arising out a construction accident that was settled for $3 million. Commercial Underwriters Insurance Company ("CUIC") issued a primary policy to Galaxy and a primary policy to the property owners, each with a policy ...

Belanger et al v. North American Specialty Insurance, 07-1497. Like most insurance and surety bond issues, this was resolved on summary judgment. A construction company executed an Agreement of Indemnity in favor of the ... to be whether the Maine Insurance Guaranty Association Act (the "MIGA Act" or the "Act") 24-A M.R.S.A. § 4432 bars the insurer's claim. The MIGA act created an entity to protect policyholders from losses by their insurers. The construction company claims that because ...

... purchased a "Pollution Legal Liability Select Clean-Up Cost Cap Insurance" policy from American International Specialty Insurance Company (AISLIC), to insure certain risks associated with the remediation at the site. Plaintiff's environmental consultants, Roux ... policy, but a pollution legal liability policy, such as in United States Fire Ins. Co. v. Bunge North America, Inc. Imprecise parenthetical comments such as "consequential damages [are] available for failure to properly investigate insured' ...

... are afraid that sooner or later legislators will begin to figure out that our members own many of the insurance companies that insure doctors and that the reason for the recent significant increases in malpractice premiums was the failure to have reasonable rate ... move to Tennessee. This plan protects patients, because every doctor will be replaced by another doctor of the same specialty in the same locale. To be sure, some patients will complain about getting a new doctor, but we can blame that ...

... BlackBerryGate) (Law360) (Hal Wegner) Changing scope of liability for contributory infringement: Ricoh Company Ltd v Quanta Computer Inc (International Law Office) Commercial success ... 3G products (PatLit) Jaco Environmental - Jaco sues American Specialty Lines Insurance Co, saying the insurer should have paid defence costs in patent dispute ... Appeals for the 9th Circuit upholds lower court's ruling that United National Insurance Co does not need to cover cost of settlement in trade dress infringement ...

... serves its members by facilitating the advancement of the science and art of medicine related to otolaryngology and by representing the specialty in governmental and socioeconomic issues. The organization's vision: "Empowering otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeons to ... the treatment of heavy metal toxicity and only one of six medical practitioners in the state of North Carolina who is certified through the American Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology. Currently serving as President of the North ...

... Home model -- described more fully in materials from the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, and TransforMED, an affiliate of the American Academy of Family Physicians -- relies on a shift in physician compensation from a fee-for-service focus to a patient management focus ... many of the large consumer groups, the employer associations and I think there is a total of 19 medical specialty groups that have endorsed the concept, etc. So it's grown to a rather large organization that's really ...

... for prescription costs. Ill and Uninsured in Illinois gives us a simple but eloquent presentation of the difficulty of accessing specialty care while uninsured: The Wait for Cook County Health Care. At the other end of the spectrum, Health Access ... HealthBlawg, I recently interviewed the CEO of Satori World Medical, a medical tourism company that offers a twist: through an HRA, it funds patients' future years' insurance premiums with a portion of the savings their employers or insurers enjoy as a ...

... was important because it was the first time that a national health body acknowledged or officially recognized PHRs. In 2005, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) formed a work group to examine the role of PHRs in relation to EHRs, ... the other. Health care consumers have become mobile and now seek the services from a variety of providers engaging in numerous specialties. These same consumers change providers on a regular basis and take advantage of new models of care, like ...