Significant Publications

Diane L. Polscer
Thomas A. Gordon
Stephanie S. Andersen

Diane L. Polscer

Critical Issues for Senior Property Insurance Executives - Property Loss Research Bureau and the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel September 27, 2004 - Westin River North, Chicago, Illinois. Presentation by Diane L. Polscer & Joanne Blackburn: EVOLVING COVERAGE ISSUES IN CONSTRUCTION DEFECT AND MOLD LITIGATION

Successor Liability: Liability and Coverage Implications By: Diane Polscer & Thomas Gordon, FDCC Quarterly, Vol. 55, NO. 1, Fall 2004

Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel 2005 Annual Meeting, Carlsbad, California, July 17 - 24, 2005; Substantive Law Section Meeting: Construction an Insurance Coverage Sections

Environmental Coverage Update 2003 - The Year in Review, Environmental Claims Managers Association Meeting, May 2003

CGL Policies and Exclusions for Construction Defect Claims, ABA Section of Litigation CLE Seminar, March 2003

Environmental Coverage Litigation Update (East Meets West), Environmental Claims Managers Association Meeting, May 2002

The New Drop-Down Law, Defense Research Institute, October 2002

Environmental Coverage Litigation 2003, Environmental Claims Managers Association, December 2002

The New Insolvencies: Who “Drops Down?”, Defense Research Institute, December 2002

Cutting Edge Insurance/Reinsurance Issues & Implications: The European and United States Experience, How Are Reinsurers Affected?, DRI Second International Conference, May 2001, Brussels, Belgium

Y2K: Should Insurers Care; Is There Significant Coverage Anyway?, Insurance Claims Supervision Seminar, Defense Research Institute, May 1999

Investigation By The Insurer, ABA TIPS - West Group Publication of Insurance Coverage Litigation, Summer 1999

The Year 2000 Problem: May Professional Look to Their Errors and Omissions Insurer For Coverage?, Year 2000 Insurance Conference, Mealey’s, July 1999

The Duty to Investigate, When Your Reasonable Expectations May Be Unreasonable: Insurance Relationships, Claims and Litigation, ABA TIPS, August 1999

Risky Business: An Analysis of the Coverage Grants and Exclusions in General Liability Policies, Construction Litigation, Insurance, and Surety Issues, Defense Research Institute, September 1999

Ethical Obligations and Good Faith, Excess and Reinsurance Seminar, Defense Research Institute, April 1998

Coverage Under Comprehensive General Liability (CGL) Policies, Liability Insurance for Businesses Seminar, Oregon Law Institute, June 1997

Controlling the Defense: Do You Have The Right To Be Wrong?, Insurance Coverage for Environmental Claims Seminar, Defense Research Institute, October 1997

Reinsurance in a Brave New World: An Overview of Coverage Issues, Defense Research Institute, November 1996

Apportionment Between Insurers and Insureds: The Settlement Dilemma, Insurance Coverage for Environmental Claims Seminar, DRI, October 1995

Choice of Law Issues in Complex Coverage Cases, Tort and Insurance Practice Section, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, ABA Annual Convention, 1994

Co-Author, Choice of Law Issues in Complex Coverage Cases, Tort and Insurance Practice Section, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee (presented at 1994 ABA Annual Convention)

Co-Author, Preparing For and Defending the Claims Specialist Deposition - An Outside and Inside Counsel’s Perspective, Insurance Coverage for Environmental Claims Seminar, Defense Research Institute, October 1994

Insurance Coverage Issues Arising Under the Trucker’s Endorsement, ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Self Insurers Committee Program, ABA Annual Convention, August 1993

Co-Author, Insurance Coverage Issues Arising Under the Trucker’s Endorsement, Tort and Insurance Practice Self Insurers Committee, August 9, 1993

The Use of Trial Consultants in Complex Environmental Litigation: A Lawyer’s Perspective, Insurance Coverage for Environmental Claims Seminar, Defense Research Institute, October 1993

Co-Author, Directors and Officers’ Liability for Environmental Cleanup Costs, ABA Tort and Insurance Law Journal, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2, Winter 1993

How to Prepare and Win with Factual Defenses: Expected or Intended and Late Notice/Prejudice Defenses, DRI Insurance Coverage for Environmental Claims Seminar, September 1992

Co-Author, Insurance Coverage Issues, Oregon Environmental Law Deskbook, Chapter IIIA.5, Oregon Law Institute, January 1991 and yearly updates

Co-Author, Coverage or No Coverage, Pollution Claims & Liability Policies, Fall 1989

Co-Author, Insurance Claims for Environmental Losses (September 1989), Oregon State Bar (Course Lecturer)

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Thomas A. Gordon

Additional Insured Endorsements, Mealey’s Publications, Los Angeles, May 2005

Successor Liability: Liability and Coverage Implications, Defense Research Institute, February 2004

Insurance Coverage for Environmental Claims, Lorman Group, Portland, Oregon, Fall, 2004

Successor Liability: Liability and Coverage Implications, Defense Research Institute, February 2004

Balancing the Promotion of Emerging Technology Against the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, Defense Research Institute, January 2001

Creativity Never Ends: Stuck in Lodi Again, DRI, September 2001

New Year, New Claims, Defense Research Institute, Insurance Coverage for Environmental and Mass Tort Claims, April 2000

Streamlining Inter-Carrier Cost Allocation Through Arbitration, Defense Research Institute, January 1999

Insurance Coverage for Cyberspace Risks, International Association of Defense Counsel, May 1999

Emerging Issues for Excess Carriers, Insurance Coverage and Practice Seminar, Defense Research Institute, June 1999

Emerging Insurance Coverage Issues in the U.S., Year 2000: A Global Liability and Insurance Perspective, London, Mealey’s, September 1999

Surveying Cyberspace: A Guide to Insurance Defense and Coverage in the Age of Technology, DRI Monograph, 1998

The Absolute Pollution Exclusion: Updating the Scorecard, Insurance Coverage for Environmental Claims Seminar, DRI, October. 1998

Key Issues that Don’t Get Discussed, Defense Research Institute, October 1998

Third-Party Pollution, Liability Insurance for Businesses Seminar, Oregon Law Institute, June 1997

CGL Annotated, published by LIRB, chapters on contractual liability exclusion and care, custody or control exclusion, 1995

CGL Annotated, Chapters on Contractual Liability Exclusion and Care, Custody or Control Exclusion, LIRB, 1995

Claims Handling and Pre-Litigation Considerations - The Insurer’s Perspective, Commercial Law & Practice Symposium, Practicing Law Institute, March 1995

Expert and Technical Witnesses, Environmental Insurance Coverage Claims and Litigation Seminar, Practicing Law Institute, April 1994

Agents and Brokers: Acting on Behalf of the Insurer or the Insured?, Insurance Coverage and Practice Symposium, DRI, June 1994

Practical Aspects of the Duties and Relationships of the Primary and the Excess Carrier, DRI Monograph, 1993

Essential Considerations When Reserving Rights or Denying Coverage, The Rights and Duties of Primary and Excess Insurance Carriers, DRI, Volume 1993, No. 5

The New Frontier: Sale of a Defective Product; Failure to Warn; Breach of Warranty of Uniformity

Negligent Inspection; Will Lawyer Creativity Ever Cease?, Insurance Coverage for Environmental Claims (First and Third-Party), DRI, September 1992

Contractual Liability/Care, Custody and Control: Two Old Exclusions Enter the 90’s, 9th Annual Insurance Coverage and Practice Symposium, DRI, December 1992

Anatomy of An Environmental Claim: Outside Counsel’s View, Insurance Coverage for Environmental Liability Claims Seminar, DRI, September 1991

Practical and Economic Issues Related to Hazardous Waste Cleanup and Insurance Litigation, Environmental Contamination -- Cleaning Up the Dirty Nest: Who Pays For Solutions?, ABA TIPS Annual Meeting, August 1990

Settlement Strategies, Insurance Coverage for Environmental Liability Claims Seminar, DRI, September, 1990

Practical Problems in Multi-Party Coverage Litigation, Insurance Coverage and Practice Seminar, DRI, December 1990

Debris Removal Provisions and Pollution Losses, Pollution and Contamination Coverages in New Commercial Property Insurance Policies, IADC Mid-Year CLE Program, February 1990

Directors and Officers, Errors and Omissions Coverages: What Every Claims Professional Needs to Know About Their Relationship to CGL Coverage, DRI, 1989

Liability Coverage for Toxic Tort, Hazardous Waste Disposal and Other Pollution Exposures, Pollution and Contamination Losses: Insurance Claims Under Property & Liability Policies, DRI, Volume 1988, Number 4

Environmental Coverage, DRI Monograph, 1988

Practical Problems of Errors and Omissions and Directors and Officers Insurance Claims, Insurance Supervisors Seminar, DRI, March 1987

The Pollution Exclusion - Is the 1986 Revision the Answer?, Insurance Coverage and Practice Seminar, DRI, May 1986

1986 CGL Revisions, DRI Insurance Law Seminar, 1985

Duty to Defend: Reservation of Rights, DRI Monograph, 1976

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Stephanie S. Andersen

Insurance Bad Faith Claims in Washington, July 2007 (moderator and panelist); July 2006 (panelist); July 2004 (panelist)

What are Our Chances? On Managing Uncertainty and Gut Instinct Through Better
Litigation Risk Analysis, Environmental Claims Manager Assessment, Spring 1999, with
Steven W. Edmiston

Improving Outside Legal Support: An Efficiency Primer, Defense Research Institute, Spring 1998, with Leo L. Clarke and Steven W. Edmiston

Duties Owed by Primary Insurers to Excess Insurers and Vice Versa, Defense Research Institute, Fall 1996, with Thomas Gordon

Trial Preparation & Successfully Managing Witnesses, Documents, Experts and a Joint Defense in the Complex Coverage Action, ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section Program, ABA Annual Meeting, 1995, with Steven W. Edmiston and Martin C. Loesch

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