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Too Much <i>Fluor?</i> California Supreme Court Overturns <i>Henkel</i>

The California Supreme Court recently reversed course and overturned one of its earlier decisions, rejecting consent-to-assignment clauses as a bar to coverage where the loss at issue pre-dates the assignment.

44 minute read October 02, 2015 at 12:00 AM
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Chet Kronenberg, Tyler Bernstein and Benjamin Harris
Too Much <i>Fluor?</i> California Supreme Court Overturns <i>Henkel</i>

Consent-to-assignment clauses are integral features of most commercial general liability (“CGL”) policies because they eliminate the potential burden of unknown parties seeking insurance coverage for liability that an insurer did not foresee or intend to cover.

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