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Personal Injury Coverage: A Historical Perspective: The Duty to Defend False, Fraudulent, and Frivolous Claims

By Kirk A. Pasich
May 30, 2006

During recent years, personal and advertising injury coverage has been the subject of many court decisions. Often those decisions have involved questions of coverage for copyright infringement under the 'advertising injury' prong of the coverage. However, there has been a wide range of cases involving issues under the 'personal injury' prong of the coverage. In many of these cases, courts have focused on the current wording of the language, without reference to the historical background of the personal injury provisions. That background demonstrates the breadth of the coverage.

The History of Personal Injury Coverage

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