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America 250
The History Of Insurance And Insurance Coverage Law And Litigation In The United States
By: Scott M. Seaman
Seaman, Hernandez, and Lewis provide a master class on insurance in America. America’s 250th birthday serves as a springboard for the authors to provide a wide-ranging education on the history of insurance and the contemporary insurance coverage landscape. They illustrate how industrialization, long-tail asbestos, environmental, and toxic tort claims and catastrophic first-party losses – coupled with expanding liability and disappearing defenses – fueled these “golden ages” of the insurance coverage wars. They explore emerging areas rip-roaring across America including sustainability, forever chemicals, climate change, cyber, and artificial intelligence.
The book tracks developments in general liability, directors’ and officers’ liability, professional liability, workers compensation, first-party property, and other insurance lines. America’s unique contributions to insurance including the duty to defend, bad faith and extracontractual liability, and litigation American style (administered through a civil justice system replete with social inflation, nuclear verdicts, third-party litigation funding, reptilian tactics, and anti-corporate animus) fall comfortably within their wheelhouse.
The authors provide their nominations for the most important insurance law decisions in the history of American jurisprudence.
About The Author
Scott M. Seaman,
Pedro E. Hernandez, and Peter J. Lewis
are experienced trial and appellate lawyers representing insurers and businesses in complex, high stake, precedent setting cases across the country…
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These experienced trial and insurance lawyers describe the important role and history of insurance in the U.S., provide insights into these “Golden Ages” of the insurance coverage wars, and unpack modern insurance coverage disputes. “
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ISBN 13 (SOFT): 9781470535865
ISBN 13 (HARD): 9781470535858
ISBN 13 (eBook): 9781470535872
