The Robins Kaplan Insurance Insight

We're back! The growing Women in Insurance Group at Robins Kaplan is thrilled to provide another edition of The Robins Kaplan Insurance Insight newsletter. In this edition, we look forward, commenting on emerging insurance issues and the new frontier for women leadership. Our articles address the potential for employer liability and the availability of insurance coverage for “take-home COVID-19,” the import of “d/b/a” designations to coverage decisions, and whether an insurer’s attempts to resolve a claim pre-suit can create a contract binding the insurer to settle. We also examine the unique success of women leaders during these times of crisis.

As always, we thank you for your readership and hope that you find our content informative and insightful. Wishing you all continued health and safety.

In this issue:

• Women Leaders Excel In Times of Crisis: Lessons Learned and a Call to Action By Melissa D'Alelio
  Research evidences that during these tumultuous times, women leaders shine. Let’s reflect upon this research and construct a new definition of successful leadership- one that embraces the qualities that women leaders have exemplified throughout these trying times of crisis management: communication, collaborative decision making, inclusivity, collective responsibility, and empathy.
• What’s in a Name? The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Sheds Light on Potential Coverage Implications of “DBA” Designations By Michele Detherage
  In a recent decision the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court examined how the use of a “doing business as” designation when identifying a named insured can impact the outcome of an insurance coverage dispute.
• Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t. Can an Insurer’s Post-Loss Communications Create a Contract? By Taylore Karpa Schollard
  A contract to settle? The First Circuit thinks not. Examining a recent dispute over whether claims correspondence accepting liability and seeking information about an injury creates a contract between an insurer and a claimant.
• Take-Home COVID: The New Frontier? By Erica Ramsey
  A new type of COVID-19 exposure: will employers face liability for an employee’s sick family?

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