Declarations And Exclusions

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"News and comment on California insurance law, the politics of insurance, and other risky business"

Author: George Wallace is a partner in the law firm of Wallace & Schwartz in Pasadena, Calif.

Blawg Related Categories: Insurance Law • Solos/Small Firms • States • California • Solo / Small Firm

Recent Posts from Declarations and Exclusions

The Soft Parade of Dubious Risk Management Techniques
If you were looking for a counter-example to the proposition that "Republican elected officials can be counted upon, at all times, to side with Large Corporate Interests," you need look no further than the relationship…
Priceless, But Not Compensable in California:
No Emotional Distress or Loss of Companionship Damages for the Death of a Pet
In late 2004, I wrote about the Bluestone case, in which a jury in Orange County, California, awarded a dog owner damages for his distress and loss of companionship in his suit against the veterinarians…
Crusading Knight vs. Crusading Lawyer [Updated]
Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight has a bone to pick with New York arts lawyer (and proprietor of The Art Law Blog) Donn Zaretsky. In a post to the LAT's Culture Monster blog,…
Fool Moon and Empty Arms: The April Fool's Blawg Review Appendix Has Risen
April Fool's Day has come upon us and, as is traditional, an extra edition of Blawg Review -- the April Fool's Blawg Review Appendix 2009 -- is posted to my more personal blog, a fool…
Blawg Review #205
Welcome to Blawg Review #205, the Music of the Spheres edition. The English composer Gustav Holst (1874-1934) was hugely prolific, but he is unquestionably best known for his orchestral suite, The Planets. Composed between 1914…
The Courthouse with a Heart Full of Sol
The intersection of art and law has been a recurring topic here at Decs&Excs, especially when one declines to yield the right of way to the other. One subset of that topic has been courthouses…
Coming Attractions
The continuing and profound silence in this space will again be broken no later than next Monday, March 30, as it will be my pleasure for the fourth year running to host a new edition…
12 Artsy Men
Perhaps you have heard of juried art exhibitions, but what about jurors' art exhibitions? Anne Reed's sterling Deliberations -- the home of Blawg Review #127, which was among Decs&Excs' nominees for 2007 Blawg Review of…
Limits of Coverage in "Continuous Trigger" Cases:
They Keep Going and Going and Going . . .
The Stringfellow Acid Pits of Riverside County have been spawning (spewing?) litigation for decades, both as to when, how and by whom the site must be cleaned up and as to which of the responsible…
Lessons Worth Learning, Again and Again
On occasion,appellate courts will publish a decision not because it breaks new legal ground but because it offers an opportunity to "remind" practitioners of rules that are well-settled but too often "forgotten" or "overlooked." To…