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Palsgraf-Ian Proximate Cause And Insurance Law: The State Of New York Additional Insured Coverage Following Burlington Insurance Co. V. Nyc Transit Authority, Ryan P. Maxwell

Buffalo Law Review

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Stoney Road Out Of Eden: The Struggle To Recover Insurance For Armenian Genocide Deaths And Its Implications For The Future Of State Authority, Contract Rights, And Human Rights, Jeffrey W. Stempel, Sarig Armenian, David Mcclure

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

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Pricing Death: Analyzing The Secondary Market For Life Insurance Policies And Its Regulatory Environment, Sachin Kohli

Buffalo Law Review

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Insurer Moral Hazard In The Workers' Compensation Crisis: Reforming Cost Inflation, Not Rate Suppression, Martha T. Mccluskey

Journal Articles

This article challenges the standard story of the insurance crisis that led to the near-collapse and major reform of a number of states’ workers’ compensation programs in the 1980s and 1990s.

In the prevailing account, insurance costs rose due to expanding costs of benefits for injured workers’, much of which was blamed on wasteful or abusive "moral hazard" by workers and their lawyers and doctors. Because state regulators had substantial power to control insurance rates, this account claims governments tried to suppress prices in the face of rising benefit costs in a misguided attempt to avoid political trade-offs between labor …

The National Standards For No-Fault Insurance Act: Good Intentions And Bad Federalism, Richard L. Reinhold

Buffalo Law Review

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Insurance Premium Financing, Frank A. Valenti

Buffalo Law Review

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Embattled Victims Of The Uninsured: In Court With New York's Mvaic, 1959-1969, Joseph Laufer

Buffalo Law Review

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Unemployment Benefits In Labor Controversies: The Anachronisms Of The Establishment Doctrine, Robert A. Barker

Buffalo Law Review

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Mental Stress And Mental Injury In New York Workmen's Compensation, Peter J. Brevorka

Buffalo Law Review

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Insurance Law—Physical Contact Requirement Of Mvaic Law Satisfied Where Hit And Run Vehicle Pushes Another Vehicle Into Claimant, Gary H. Feinberg

Buffalo Law Review

Motor Vehicle Acc. Indemnification Corp. v. Eisenberg, 18 N.Y.2d 1, 218 N.E.2d 524, 271 N.Y.S.2d 641 (1966).

Insurance Law—Mvaic—Uninsured Drivers Endorsement Calling For Reduction Of Workmen’S Compensation Payment From “Insured” Claimant’S Award Is Not Contrary To Legislative Intent, Frederick A. Wolf

Buffalo Law Review

Matter of Durant (MVAIC), 15 N.Y.2d 408, 207 N.E.2d 600, 260 N.Y.S.2d 1 (1965).

Insurance Law—Non-Escaping Fire Held To Constitute Hostile Fire, Robert M. Kornreich

Buffalo Law Review

Barcalo Manufacturing Co. v. Firemen's Mutual Insurance Co., 24 A.D.2d 55, 263 N.Y.S.2d 807 (4th Dep't 1965).

Insurance Law—Deduction Of Settlements From Insurance Company’S Liability On Automobile Policy Allowable, Alan S. Carrel

Buffalo Law Review

Duprey v. Security Mutual Casualty Company, 22 App. Div. 544, 256 N.Y.S.2d 987 (1965).

Insurance Law—Mandatory Arbitration—Inadequacy Of Mvaic Arbitration Award Not Grounds For Judicial Review, Richard M. Johnson

Buffalo Law Review

Torano v. Motor Vehicle Accident Indemnification Corp., 15 N.Y.2d 882, 206 N.E.2d 353, 258 N.Y.S.2d 418 (1965), affirming, 19 A.D.2d 356, 243 N.Y.S.2d 434 (lst Dep't 1963).

Insurance—State Regulation Of Credit Life Insurance, Paul J. Di Giulio

Buffalo Law Review

Old Repub. Life Ins. Co. v. Thacher, 12 N.Y.2d 48, 186 N.E.2d 554, 234 N.Y.S.2d 702 (1962).

Insurance—Jury Trial Waived By Life Insurance Beneficiary Through Dilatory Tactics, Richard S. Mayberry

Buffalo Law Review

Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Conway, 11 N.Y.2d 367, 183 N.E.2d 754, 229 N.Y.S.2d 740 (1962).

Insurance—Foreign Life Insurer Licensed In State May Control Insurance Firms Engaged In Non-Life Business, Robert D. Stein

Buffalo Law Review

Aetna Casualty and Surety Co. v. O'Connor, 8 N.Y.2d 359, 207 N.Y.S.2d 679 (1960).

Insurance—Rescission Of Automobile Insurance Policy Procured By Fraud, Robert E. Nicely

Buffalo Law Review

Woodson v. New York City Housing Authority, 10 N.Y.2d 30, 217 N.Y.S.2d 31 (1961).

Insurance—Policemen Held "Employees" Under Insurance Policy, Buffalo Law Review

Buffalo Law Review

City of Albany v. Standard Accident Insurance Co., 7 N.Y2d 422, 426, 198 N.Y.S.2d 303, 305 (1960).

Insurance—Conflict Of Laws, Buffalo Law Review

Buffalo Law Review

Morton v. Maryland Cas. Co., 4 N.Y.2d 488, 176 N.Y.S.2d 329 (1958).

Insurance—Policy Construction—Policies Covering Lessor And Lessee Respectively, Buffalo Law Review

Buffalo Law Review

General Accident Fire and Life Ins. Co. v. Piazza, 4 N.Y.2d 659, 176 N.Y.S.2d 976 (1958).

Insurance—Effective Time Of Cancellation, Buffalo Law Review

Buffalo Law Review

Nobile v. Travelers Ins. Co., 4 N.Y. 536, 176 N.Y.S.2d 585 (1958).

Insurance—Jurisdiction Of Supreme Court In Liquidation Of Insolvent Insurance Companies, Buffalo Law Review

Buffalo Law Review

In re Knickerbocker, 4 N.Y.2d 245, 173 N.Y.S.2d 602 (1958).

Insurance—Parol Evidence To Determine Policy Coverage, Buffalo Law Review

Buffalo Law Review

Concoff v. Occidental Life Ins. Co. of Calif, 4 N.Y.2d 630, 176 N.Y.S.2d 660 (1958).

Fraud And False Swearing Clauses In Insurance Contracts, Thomas Beecher

Buffalo Law Review

American Paint Service v. Home Insurance Co. of N.Y., 246 F.2d 91 (3d Cir. 1957).

Insurance—Construction Of Assignment Of Insurance As Security, Glenn Morton

Buffalo Law Review

Walzer v. Walzer, Walzer v. Walzer, 3 N.Y.2d 8, 163 N.Y.S.2d 632 (1957).

Insurance—Indemnification—Accident Involving Vendee Of Named Insured, Richard Kirchgraber, Ronald Malin

Buffalo Law Review

Phoenix Insurance Company v. Guthiel, 2 N.Y.2d 584, 161 N.Y.S.2d 874 (1957); Switzer v. Merchants Mutual Casualty Company, 2 N.Y.2d 575, 161 N.Y.S.2d 867 (1957).

Insurance—Liability For Injuries To Insured's Spouse, Glenn Morton

Buffalo Law Review

New Amsterdam Casualty Company v. Stecker, 3 N.Y.2d 1, 163 N.Y.S.2d 626 (1957).

Insurance—Failure Of Proper Notice To Insurer, Glenn Morton

Buffalo Law Review

Deso v. London and Lancashire Indem. Co. of America, 3 N.Y.2d 127, 164 N.Y.S.2d 689 (1957).

Insurance Coverage And Inter-Spouse Liability, Richard F. Griffin

Buffalo Law Review

Surety Co. of N.Y. v. Diamond, 1 N. Y. 2. 594, 136 N. E. 2d 876 (1956).