We are pleased to announce that our panelist, Justice Barry Ostrager has the 22nd edition of his Handbook on Insurance Coverage Disputes coming out in November 2024:

Relied on by the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeal, and the highest state courts in California, Florida, New York, and throughout the country, Ostrager and Newman’s Handbook on Insurance Coverage Disputes is recognized as the most current, comprehensive, and authoritative resource of the law of insurance and reinsurance.

Authors Barry R. Ostrager and Thomas R. Newman are pre-eminent practitioners who have handled many precedent setting cases in the field of insurance and reinsurance law. For 8 1/2 years, Mr. Ostrager was a Justice of the New York Supreme Court assigned to the Commercial Division where many insurance coverage disputes are decided. With their expertise, you can more easily determine what is—and is not—covered under various policy provisions. The Handbook provides excerpts from standard insurance policies and offers insights into planning and implementation of successful litigation strategies. The Handbook is the practical resource that provides: Twenty-Second Edition, coming in November 2024

• The addition of more than 160 cases to the Handbook, many of which are meaningful explanations / discussions that clarify, change or even create new law in various substantive areas.
• Dynamic discussion of evolving case law and expert analysis in topics such as issues relating to the arbitration of reinsurance disputes (Chapter 16), D&O (Chapter 20), first-party policies, including COVID coverage cases (Chapter 21), exclusion to PFA “forever chemicals” (chapter 23), and cyber issues, including a new section on emerging issues relating to AI and insurers/insurance coverage (Chapter 26).
• Of note, since the 21st Edition, the Handbook has been cited in 8 additional court opinions.
• Widely cited expert analysis — the Handbook has been cited in over 350 court opinions.
• Multiple 50 – state surveys on the evolving law in various jurisdictions.
• Noteworthy new cases and in-depth case law analyses have been included, including a sizeable number of state supreme court decisions clarifying or overturning existing law, as well as cases of first impression.

For over 35 years the Handbook has been relied on by Courts and practitioners to provide on a current basis the ever evolving developments in insurance and reinsurance law it is a unique treatise with which no serious practitioner can be without.