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In this week’s issue of Insurance Law, Morrison Mahoney partner Michael Aylward discusses an important new ruling from the New Hampshire Supreme Court that upheld a one year limitation period for first party claims and rejected an insured’s arguments of estoppel, and a Washington Supreme Court decision on a controversial 2019 case ruling that a certificate of insurance can confer coverage on third party even where no additional insured coverage was provided under the policy at issue.

In this week’s issue, Morrison Mahoney partner Michael Aylward discusses two interesting new first party rulings from the federal courts of appeal in Florida and Ohio, and an important new ruling from the Montana Supreme Court holding that a liability insurer does not act in bad faith in paying its policy limit to “settle” claims against its insured even if the underlying claimant refuses to sign a release confirming the settlement.

We are kicking off 2020 with a special Hospital and Healthcare edition of our Cybersecurity Newsletter. Our team discusses evolving legal theories in data breach class-actions in connection with new fact patterns, the federal government’s aggressive enforcement of the patient’s right to access records under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, a recent report regarding hundreds of healthcare industry ransomware attacks in 2019, causing billions of dollars in potential damages, and more.

At year’s end, Boston partner Michael Aylward surveys the major insurance coverage and bad faith cases that were decided in 2019, together with an analysis of recent industry and liability claim trends and a forecast of pending coverage appeals that are soon to be decided.

In his concluding insurance coverage newsletter of 2019, Boston partner Michael Aylward analyzes a significant new “failure to settle” bad faith case out of Florida together with diverse rulings involving intellectual property claims in the music industry and the duty to defend construction defect claims in Illinois.