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Contribution Claims Between Insurers After Paying Defense Expenses

  • Writer: Kirk Hartley
    Kirk Hartley
  • Jan 6, 2010
  • 1 min read

Sometimes insurers pay all the defense expenses for underlying claims and then seek to apportion the costs among other insurers through contribution claims against the other insurers. In a recent case, a Massachusetts district court applied equity and ordered London insurers to pay 30% of expenses incurred for various underlying silica claims. The opinion is here.

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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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