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Supreme Court Wrap-Up: Energy and Environmental Issues in the 2014-2015 Term

Event | 07.08.15, 12:00 AM UTC - 12:00 AM UTC

Address

National Press Club
529 14th Street Northwest, Washington, DC

Each year the United States Supreme Court makes many decisions that broadly influence our society and our way of life. Similarly, broad impacts often affect the business community, particularly when the Court’s decisions involve energy and the environment. The cases of this 2014-2015 term raised particularly important issues regarding the intersection of economic and regulatory policy, including Michigan v. EPA, which considered the extent to which regulators must balance the costs and benefits in environmental rule making.


At this event, leading legal and economic scholars, as well as experienced advocates, will review cases heard or ruled upon by the Supreme Court in the 2014-2015 term that have significant impacts or implications for energy and environmental concerns.


Kirsten Nathanson is a panelist at this event.


For more information, please visit these areas: Litigation and Trial, Environment and Natural Resources, Corporate and Transactional

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Has the Buss Stopped? Recoupment Today

Has the Buss Stopped? Recoupment Today: In 1997, the California Supreme Court decided Buss v. Superior Court. In Buss, the court concluded that a liability insurer that defended a mixed action could seek reimbursement from the insured for the defense costs associated with the claims that were not even potentially covered. Since then, numerous courts have held that insurers are entitled to recoup their defense costs associated with uncovered claims or causes of action. On the other hand, a significant number of courts have rejected insurers’ right to recoupment, at least in the absence of a policy provision granting the insurer that right. Some commentators have even suggested that the current judicial trend might be away from permitting insurers to recoup their defense costs. Is that correct? Has the Buss stopped? This panel of coverage experts will analyze insurers’ claimed right to recoupment today, and offer their perspectives on what the law on recoupment should perhaps be and might be in the future.