Before I get to the news, a couple things. I've had requests to put the "insurance" back in Insurance Coverage Law Blog, and these are fair points. I have now finished my latest lengthy analysis for New Appleman on Insurance: Current Critical Issues in Insurance Law, so this frees up a little time for more posts on insurance. This article, which I believe will appear in April, is on the Fifth Circuit's Katrina jurisprudence, including a long look at some questions about ambiguity in policy drafting: Why are insurance policies so hard to read? Would anyone read them even if they were "easy" to read? Is it desirable or even possible to draft policies the layman will comprehend while still responding to specific court precedent? One interesting st
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