General liability insurance coverage : Key issues in every state / Randy J. Maniloff, Jeffrey Stempel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Commercial general liability insurance : an overview ; Choice of law ; Late notice defense under "occurrence" policies - is prejudice to the insurer required? ; Duty to defend standard: "four corners" or extrinsic evidence? ; Insured's right to independent counsel ; Insurer's right to reimbursement of defense costs ; Insured's right to recover attorney's fees in coverage litigation ; Number of occurrences ; Coverage for innocent co-insureds : "any" insured vs. "the" insured and the severability of interests clause ; Is emotional injury "bodily injury?" ; Is faulty workmanship an "occurrence?" ; Permissible scope of indemnification in construction contracts ; Qualified pollution exclusion ; Absolute pollution exclusion ; Trigger of coverage for latent injury and damage claims ; Trigger of coverage for construction defects and non-latent injury and damage claims ; Allocation of latent injury and damage claims ; Invasion of privacy : guidance from "junk fax" claims ; Insurability of punitive damages ; First- and third-party bad faith standards ; "Reasonable expectations" approach to insurance policy interpretation.