Insurance Law

Blawg Review #305 Has Fooled Us All, M'Lud

Posted on April 01, 2011
As an April Fools' Day surprise Blawg Review #305 has launched, three days earlier than previously announced, on my personal/cultural blog, a fool in the forest. Comic opera is involved. You have been admonished.

Blawg Review #304

Posted on March 28, 2011
Blawg Review #304?The "Spooked by Nukes" Edition ~~~ "A nuclear era, but I have no fear...." ?The Clash, "London Calling " "No one will have the endurance to collect on his insurance: Lloyd's of London will be loaded when they...

Blawg Review is Waiting in the Wings

Posted on March 23, 2011
What lies behind the ominous curtains? The return, to these pages, of Blawg Review, the blog carnival for lawyers and everyone interested in the law. Please join Decs&Excs on Monday, March 28, 2011, for Blawg Review #304. Be warned, however,...

Laws Never Did Give Nothing to the Tin Man

Posted on February 15, 2011
This is Mr. Machine. He gets wound up, rolls about the place in a mechanical fashion, opening and closing his mouth and making a bit of a racket. In his way, Mr. Machine is just like many of the lawyers...

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Mass Murder is Not Business Interruption:
A Legal Tale of September 11

Posted on January 20, 2011
For most of the past decade, claims and litigation arising from the hijackings and attacks of September 11, 2001, have worked their way through courts and conference rooms toward something resembling resolution. Most of those claims have been concluded at...

"Où Sont les Blawgues d'Antan?"
["Where Are the Blawgs of Yesteryear?"]

Posted on January 19, 2011
Yessir, I can still recall the day I first became a blawger. It was a ways back in the summer of Ought-Three. August, I think it was. The last of the mastodons had just succumbed to the petrochemical embrace of...

Let's Try That Again

Posted on December 30, 2010
Promises, promises . . . Watch this space, friends. Decs&Excs will rise again in 2011. This blogger resolves to be back and posting, earnest and true, on the usual array of legal, insurance, and risk topics, in the first week...

Let's See SCOTUSBlog Post This!

Posted on June 05, 2010
It is certainly true that SCOTUSBlog is the Blogospheric Go-to Resource for all things U.S.-Supreme-Courtian. And yet . . . .even that worthy site has thus far declined to Rip the Proverbial Lid off of the Literal Scandal that is:...

The Curious Case of the King of the Bush
and the Working Men

Posted on February 06, 2010
Here is a jolly little tune well known to those of a certain age who consumed mass quantities of radio or of MTV or of VH1 in and around 1983. Yes, it's the song that introduced the United States to...

Staging a Smokin' Intervention

Posted on December 16, 2009
Today, a simple legal syllogism: If 1. You cannot shout "fire" in a crowded theater, and 2. Where there's smoke, there's fire, it follows that 3. You cannot smoke on stage in a theater. The Los Angeles Times reports that,...

Rights? Quite Right!

Posted on December 15, 2009
Today is Bill of Rights Day, acknowledging the ratification and adoption of the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution on December 15, 1791. Bill of Rights Day was reputedly first proclaimed by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, on the...

The Soft Parade of Dubious Risk Management Techniques

Posted on August 25, 2009
If you were looking for a counter-example to the proposition that "Republican elected officials can be counted upon, at all times, to side with Large Corporate Interests," you need look no further than the relationship between Florida's Republican Governor Charlie...

Priceless, But Not Compensable in California:
No Emotional Distress or Loss of Companionship Damages for the Death of a Pet

Posted on August 01, 2009
In late 2004, I wrote about the Bluestone case, in which a jury in Orange County, California, awarded a dog owner damages for his distress and loss of companionship in his suit against the veterinarians whose negligence was found to...

Crusading Knight vs. Crusading Lawyer

Posted on April 07, 2009
Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight has a bone to pick with New York arts lawyer (and proprietor of The Art Law Blog) Donn Zaretsky. In a post to the LAT's Culture Monster blog, "How not to deregulate art...

Fool Moon and Empty Arms: The April Fool's Blawg Review Appendix Has Risen

Posted on April 01, 2009
April Fool's Day has come upon us and, as is traditional, an extra edition of Blawg Review -- the April Fool's Blawg Review Appendix 2009 -- is posted to my more personal blog, a fool in the forest. Thematically, it...

Blawg Review #205

Posted on March 30, 2009
Welcome to Blawg Review #205, the Music of the Spheres edition. The English composer Gustav Holst (1874-1934) was hugely prolific, but he is unquestionably best known for his orchestral suite, The Planets. Composed between 1914 and 1916, the work was...

The Courthouse with a Heart Full of Sol

Posted on March 25, 2009
The intersection of art and law has been a recurring topic here at Decs&Excs, especially when one declines to yield the right of way to the other. One subset of that topic has been courthouses of artistic or architectural interest....

Coming Attractions

Posted on March 23, 2009
The continuing and profound silence in this space will again be broken no later than next Monday, March 30, as it will be my pleasure for the fourth year running to host a new edition of Blawg Review, the weekly...

12 Artsy Men

Posted on January 10, 2009
Perhaps you have heard of juried art exhibitions, but what about jurors' art exhibitions?Anne Reed's sterling Deliberations -- the home of Blawg Review #127, which was among Decs&Excs' nominees for 2007 Blawg Review of the Year -- is devoted to...

Limits of Coverage in "Continuous Trigger" Cases:
They Keep Going and Going and Going . . .

Posted on January 06, 2009
The Stringfellow Acid Pits of Riverside County have been spawning (spewing?) litigation for decades, both as to when, how and by whom the site must be cleaned up and as to which of the responsible parties' insurers must bear what...

Charon QC's Blawg Review # 193 -- Sinfoolly Delicious

Posted on January 05, 2009
Charon, the ferryman who transported souls across the River Styx to the realms of the dead in the myths of the Greeks, was appropriated by Dante to serve that same purpose in a more Catholic and more punitive version of...

Lessons Worth Learning, Again and Again

Posted on January 05, 2009
On occasion,appellate courts will publish a decision not because it breaks new legal ground but because it offers an opportunity to "remind" practitioners of rules that are well-settled but too often "forgotten" or "overlooked." To wrap up 2008, Curt Cutting...

The Carnival's Moved On

Posted on April 07, 2008
In the wake of my exercises in plunder and mockery, David Harlow of HealthBlawg is doing his part to restore the institutional respectability of Blawg Review in the most effective manner possible: by hosting a thorough and informative (and yes,...

Blawg Review #153

Posted on March 31, 2008
Avast! ye law-lubbing swab! Passed the Bar-nacle Exam, have ye? Familiarized yerself wi' Davey Jones' Res Ipsa Loquitur, ye say? Sailed the Chapter Seven Bankrupt Seas, even? Schooled y'are in yer directions, an' knows the diff'rence between yer Tort and...

The Amazing Fraudini!

Posted on March 25, 2008
Gloria Teasdale: I thought you left. Chicolini: Oh no. I don't leave. Gloria Teasdale: But I saw you with my own eyes. Chicolini: Well, who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes? -- from Duck Soup (The Marx Brothers,...

David Rossmiller Has You Covered

Posted on March 24, 2008
". . . . Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season." -- T.S. Eliot, "Gerontion" (1920) In August, this weblog will be five years old. I do not know what the proper formula is for converting Human Years...

Arrivederci Aroma

Posted on March 19, 2008
Lloyd's of London, not Starbuck's, is almost certainly history's most important coffee house, and the Lloyd's markets are justifiably famous for their ability to place insurance coverage for unusual risks, as exemplified by this list of 9 Odd Things Insured...

This is the Jurist Primeval

Posted on March 06, 2008
I have not maintained a membership in the Los Angeles County Bar Association for a decade or so, but I remain on some of the Association's email distribution lists. This morning, I received notice of an upcoming seminar revisiting --...

Tie Goes to the Dumpster

Posted on March 01, 2008
Los Angeles is better known for tight abs and botox than it is for tuxes and bow ties -- but we were supposed to have had a truly Enormous sculptured bow tie to festoon a space in front of the...

Blawg Review Nominations

Posted on December 31, 2007
Shirley Temple: Golly gee, Mr. Disney! What are all these little statues for? Walt Disney: Well first, Shirley, I need to ask you politely to take your dimpled mitts off of that large statue, because that one's mine. Heh, heh....

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