The adoption of the Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance (RLLI) was not without controversy. The result of eight years of research, discussion and consultation across the spectrum of industry stakeholders, the RLLI offered judges, practitioners and scholars a comprehensive resume of the terms, premises, and policy considerations that underlie modern insurance law. But critics of the RLLI argued that it is insufficiently grounded in existing law.
Rutgers Center for Risk and Responsibility, in partnership with the University of Connecticut Insurance Law Center presented in April, 2019, a two-part conference marking the completion of The American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance.
The RLLI: Process and Politics
- Professor Jay Feinman, Rutgers Law School
Professional Responsibility and the RLLI
- Moderator: Professor Rick Swedloff, Rutgers Law School
- Christopher Leise, White and Williams, LLP
- Professor John Leubsdorf, Rutgers Law School
Plain Meaning and Ambiguity in Insurance Contracts
- Moderator: Professor Michelle Boardman, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
- Laura Foggan, Crowell & Moring
- Tim Law, Reed Smith, LLP
- Professor Jeffrey Stempel, University of Las Vegas School of Law
Presentation by Professor Tom Baker, University of Pennsylvania Law School:
“The New Normal or a Bump in the Road?” How Policyholders and Insurers Will be Affected by the ALI’s Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance
Duty to Make Reasonable Settlement Decisions
- Moderator: Jay Feinman, Rutgers Law School
- Thomas Quinn, Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
- Robert Chesler, Anderson, Kill, P.C.
The RLLI in Context
- Moderator: Peter Kochenburger, Director, U Conn Insurance Law Center
- Professor Qihao He, China University of Political Science and Law
- Professor James Davey (via satellite) ,University of Southampton
- David Newmann, Hogan & Lovells