Katherine E. Tammaro

Partners Katherine Tammaro (Madison, NJ) and David Simantob (Los Angeles, CA) will present a Wilson Elser Insurance Coverage Master Class on “Choice of Law in Insurance Disputes” on June 29, 2023. They will discuss how choice of law issues impact various insurance disputes from the initial coverage analysis, to the right to independent defense counsel, to claims handling and, ultimately, bad faith disputes. 

Topics include

• the Various Choice of Law Rules Used in Different States
• The Concept of Dépeçage, and whether separate choice of law inquiries should be made with respect to different issues in the claim
• The Impact of Forum Selection and Choice of Law Provisions Used in Some Policies, and whether they are upheld in different states
• The Different Choice of Law Analyses Needed for Coverage Issues
• The Right to Independent Counsel
• Claims Handling
• Bad Faith. 

Katherine and David also will discuss the impact of these choice of law issues, from the initial decision to accept coverage to the potential race to the courthouse between the carrier and the insureds.

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