I’m not sure which is more grimly entertaining:  watching old advertisements for cigarettes (see here), or watching old advertisements for asbestos products (see here).  If you’re an executive in the front office of a company that acquired an asbestos manufacturer, however, you might fail to appreciate the dark humor.  A few years back,

Labor Day has just passed as I write this, and this summer (that went by too quickly) was a busy one for the New Jersey appellate courts, insurance-wise.  The New Jersey Supremes, for example,  dealt with a question often posed by our clients in construction defect cases: Namely, can a claimant proceed directly against a

Absent a specific law or contractual provision, American courts generally follow the “American Rule,” meaning that each side pays its own legal fees.  Seems unfair that when a company buys a liability insurance policy, it still may have to hire lawyers to sue the carrier and secure the paid-for defense of an underlying action.  New