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Aug. 18, 2010 – Regardless of how you define your law practice, you sometimes practice insurance law. As Justice Black once stated, “Perhaps no modern commercial enterprise directly affects so many persons in all walks of life as does the insurance business. Insurance touches the home, the family, and the occupation or business of almost every person in the United States.”
With that in mind, the State Bar of Wisconsin’s PINNACLE™ Books proudly announces the latest revision of Arnold P. Anderson’s Wisconsin Insurance Law – a valuable resource frequently cited by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals and Supreme Court and relied upon by attorneys everywhere.
Wisconsin Insurance Law, first published in 1983 and a mainstay of the PINNACLE library since 2002, is now in its sixth edition, providing a definitive, comprehensive, and indepth review of insurance law in Wisconsin, defining and explaining the responsibilities of insurers, insureds, and insurance agents. That review includes, but is not limited to:
Interpretation of insurance contracts
Automobile liability insurance
Uninsured and underinsured motorist insurance
General liability policies
Fire and property insurance
An insurer’s duty to defend
An insurer’s investigation and handling of third-party claims
First-party claims against insurers
Subrogation
This latest edition includes all that, and incorporates those legal developments that have occurred since publication of the October 2008 supplement. It also provides additional information and interpretation of many contemporary insurance issues, including the following:
The 2009 uninsured and underinsured motorist legislation, which repealed much of the 1995 legislation;
The Seventh Circuit’s view on all-sums versus pro rata allocation of damages (as articulated in Plastics Engineering Co. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., 514 F.2d 651 (7th Cir. 2008); and
An expanded discussion of spoliation, including the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s latest view on the topic (as articulated in American Family Insurance Co. v. Golke, 2009 WI 81, 319 Wis. 2d 397, 768 N.W.2d 729).
The book’s appendices also are updated and expanded, now including several standard ISO insurance policy forms, as well as seminar materials regarding Medicare notification and reimbursement.
In reviewing the fourth edition of this book, insurance defense attorney Claude Covelli described it as “the definitive source on Wisconsin law,” and recommended it to all practitioners, “both experienced and less-experienced.” Another attorney reviewer observed that “[t]hose of us who use this book a great deal could not go without it, and others may not realize what a valuable resource it is until it finds a place on the shelf.”
The new edition of Wisconsin Insurance Law is available to members for $265 plus tax, shipping, and handling. Purchasers who subscribe to the State Bar of Wisconsin’s auto-supplementation service will receive future updates for 10 percent off the regular price. This title is also available in electronic format for $129 as part of the State Bar’s online library, Books UnBound™.
