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    Kirk T. Hartley
    • Sep 7, 2020
    • 3 min

    Professor Feinman's Latest: "A User’s Guide to the Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance"

    It's most interesting and encouraging to see Professor Jay Feinman publish a new paper that frankly addresses the pressures exerted on...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Feb 26, 2019
    • 2 min

    The Protection Gap in Property Insurance – A Conference – Friday, March 29, 2019 Rut

    “Protection gaps” are one of the results of the failure of state regulation of most forms of insurance. The gap problem – as it exists...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Dec 19, 2018
    • 1 min

    Settlement Approved for Avery Case Regarding Auto Repairs and Allegedly Misrepresentations as to Cam

    With trial court approval of a settlement, the parties are close to reaching the end of the long and winding road of the Avery case. ...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Nov 29, 2018
    • 3 min

    Allianz and Praedicat Expand Access for Manufacturers to Access a System for Enhancing Product Stewa

    A press release yesterday brought news of an interesting next step in the process of increasing the intersections between law and...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Aug 9, 2018
    • 1 min

    An AI View of Insurance Coverage Litigation

    A new aspect of the practice of law is applying AI to sets of cases. That trend is now being applied to insurance coverage cases,...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Mar 8, 2018
    • 3 min

    Karma – Buffet and National Indemnity Ordered to Pay $43 Million in Libby Mine Case

    Those who understand asbestos litigation will appreciate the karma one could see in this outcome. For the rest of you, sorry, but the...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jul 19, 2017
    • 1 min

    K&L Gates Explains: Who Will Be Handling Your [Asbestos] Claims Under Berkshire Hathaway’s Lates

    Berkshire’s appetite for asbestos claim revenue has generated numerous interesting deals, to the least. The latest pair of deals received...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Feb 16, 2017
    • 1 min

    Cozen O’Connor Says: “Are Attorneys’ Bills Privileged Once Litigation Ends – California

    For persons and entities involved in mass tort claiming and litigation with insurance companies and/or other payors, there’s a new and...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jan 3, 2017
    • 3 min

    Hartford Closes Out 2016 With $420+ Million Charge for More Asbestos Losses

    As previously predicted by yours truly and other members of a multidisciplinary team, asbestos losses continue to rise for insurance...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Nov 1, 2016
    • 2 min

    Reliving Part of the Manville Bankruptcy: Bogdan Law Firm v. Bevan & Assocs., LPA (In re Johns-

    The Johns-Manville chapter 11. A debacle of expediency and short-term thinking from 1992-1998, and then later “do overs.” In one of its...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Oct 19, 2016
    • 1 min

    Plaintiffs Continue to Probe the Limits of Bankruptcy Court Injunctions in Mass Tort Cases

    Plaintiffs continue to probe the limits of bankruptcy court injunctions, an effort that is even more interesting while the Second...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Aug 23, 2016
    • 1 min

    Indictments Against Engineering Firm Hired by Insurance Company Lawyers for Superstorm Sandy Claims

    It took some time, but 50 indictments finally emerged for the engineering firm hired by property damage insurance company lawyers to...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Mar 8, 2016
    • 1 min

    Garlock’s “Plaintiff Fraud” Claim Fails in Kentucky Under Time Bar Law

    Garlock’s “plaintiff’ fraud” claims apparently will not be tested on the merits in Kentucky as it just lost an intermediate court appeal....
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Mar 4, 2016
    • 1 min

    Software, Predictive Models, and Discovery Against Insurance Companies

    The discovery wars of tomorrow will include plaintiffs seeking access to existing and future analytic and predictive databases and models...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Nov 12, 2015
    • 2 min

    Thursday November 19, 2015 Webinar on Insurance Industry Asbestos Reserves and Asbestos Science

    Asbestos litigation keeps on going. Indeed, a couple of weeks ago, AM Best put out yet another iteration of its annual report on asbestos...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Oct 20, 2015
    • 2 min

    Travelers Once Again Raises Its Asbestos Reserve (as Predicted)

    Who recently said insurers are under-reserved for asbestos litigation despite several years of increasing reserves ? The...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Aug 3, 2015
    • 1 min

    CNA Takes An Asbestos Hit the Market Did Not Expect; More “Adverse Development”

    An August 3, 2015 story in Insurance Insider reports a notable new $150 million second quarter charge taken by CNA for asbestos...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jul 8, 2015
    • 4 min

    Childbirth Left Her a Quadriplegic After Medical Malpractice; How Would Damages Caps Be Fair to this

    Advocates of damages caps in medical malpractice cases seldom, if ever, confront the gross unfairness of leaving on one person the...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jun 29, 2015
    • 4 min

    Virtues of Open Access to Big Data on Claiming and Payment Systems

    Access to “big data” is important to multiple aspects of claiming and payments systems. For example, secrecy in data helps some health...
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    Kirk Hartley
    • Jun 19, 2015
    • 1 min

    More Deja Vu All Over Again – Benzene Litigation and Insurance Company Arguments

    Yogi Berra probably never dreamed of the number of times his line would reused. In any event, it applies well to insurance companies...
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    Since becoming a lawyer in 1983, Kirk’s 35+ years of practice have focused on advising a wide range of corporations, associations, and individuals (as both plaintiffs and defendants) on both tort and commercial law issues centered around “mass torts.”

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