Former Insurance GC Joins Duane Morris
When Damon Vocke launched an insurance litigation boutique in October 2016, the firm led by the former general counsel of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. reinsurance subsidiary General Re Corp. was marketed as...
View ArticleProminent Insurance Lawyer Damon Vocke Joining Duane Morris
CHICAGO and NEW YORK, January 2, 2018 – Former General Re Corporation President and General Counsel Damon Vocke is joining the Duane Morris insurance practice, the firm announced today. Vocke had most...
View ArticleDirectors Roundtable Program, “Dealing with Corporate Crisis”
Duane Morris partners Christopher Casey and Damon Vocke will present a complimentary Directors Roundtable program, “Dealing with Corporate Crisis,” on Thursday, June 28, 2018, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30...
View Article(Re)insurers Beware, COVID-19 Exposures Arising from Insolvencies
By Damon N. Vocke and Mark A. Bradford As if COVID-19’s initial challenges related to claims, renewals, and exclusions, all while operating in a remote environment, were not enough, ceding and assuming...
View ArticleDuane Morris Helps Insurance Industry to a Major Win on COVID Losses for...
By Damon N. Vocke In the bellwether case of Joseph Tambellini, Inc. v. Erie Insurance Exchange, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was petitioned under its King’s Bench powers to assume plenary...
View ArticleBusiness Interruption Insurance, COVID-19 and Direct Physical Damage under...
By Damon Vocke and David T. McTaggart To date, approximately 150 business-interruption insurance coverage lawsuits have been filed in federal courts arising from COVID-19 and related government-ordered...
View ArticleBid to Invalidate Virus Exclusion in Pennsylvania Federal Court
Berkshire Hathaway and one of its units on Monday urged a Pennsylvania federal court to toss a restaurant’s suit seeking insurance coverage for losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that a...
View ArticlePanel Rejects Consolidation Of All Federal Business Interruption Cases
By Damon Vocke On July 31, the seven-member Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation (JPML) heard oral argument of extraordinary length on the potential consolidation of all federal cases involving...
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