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Standard liability insurance policies contain, in addition to the well-known bodily injury and property damage coverages, an often-forgotten section known as "advertising injury," which affords coverage that too many companies overlook.

Overlapping insurance coverage raises complicated issues for insurers, insureds, and the courts. This article discusses certain tensions among New York cases discussing "other insurance" in the duty to defend context, as brought to the fore by two recent decisions of the First Department of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division.

The Supreme Court of Georgia recently held in Trinity Outdoor, LLC v. Central Mut. Ins. Co. that an insured for which the insurer is providing a defense does not have a claim for an alleged bad faith failure to settle prior to the entry of an excess judgment.

In what can only be described as a major victory for insurers, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ' the state's highest court ' responded to certified questions from the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit by rejecting a joint and several (also known as "all sums") approach to liability allocation for progressive injuries, and instead adopting a pro rata method of liability allocation.

Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.

Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.

South Africa's Consumer Protection Act will have a significant impact on franchising in that country. The president of South Africa signed the new legislation into law on April 24, 2009, and it was published in the government gazette on April 29, 2009. The Act codifies many franchise practices that have been advocated by the Franchise Association of South Africa since the early 1990s and expands on existing provisions of South Africa's Competition Act, 1998.

While the United States shares a common language and common law background with the United Kingdom and New Zealand, those countries have gone in a different direction in regulation of franchising.