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Pennsylvania Court: No Coverage for Mother’s Distress Over Son’s Overdose Death

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that Nationwide Property and Casualty is not obligated to defend its homeowner insureds against a wrongful death claim for emotional and mental distress brought by a mother whose son died from a drug overdose …

Texas Jury Finds LSD Did Not Cause Spinal Injury, Requires Occidental to Pay HO Limits

When does a hallucinogenic drug become the direct cause of a catastrophic injury, triggering a homeowners’ policy exclusion? Not when a young man falls out of bed and is later moved by his comrades, potentially worsening a spinal injury, a …