Includes index.

v. 1. Coverage analysis and prelitigation. Introduction to insurance -- Insurance agent and broker liability -- Reading insurance policies -- Analyzing insurance policies -- Applying doctrines to override policy interpretation principles -- Understanding bad faith -- Researching insurance coverage -- Assessing insurance coverage -- Determining the duties of the insured -- Tendering the claim -- Determining the insurer's response -- Considering the duty to defend -- Adjusting the first-party property insurance claim -- Adjusting the third-party liability insurance claim -- -- v. 2. Coverage litigation. Initiating insurance coverage litigation -- Drafting the complaint -- Managing the relationship between the coverage case and underlying litigation -- Drafting the answer and affirmative defenses -- Determining whether to file pre-discovery motions -- Applying attorney-client and work product privileges -- Conducting discovery -- Expert witness discovery -- Determining whether to file motions for summary judgment and summary adjudication -- Settling insurance coverage disputes -- Considerations involved in settlement of the underlying case -- Considering alternative dispute resolution -- Strategies for trial -- Post-judgment motions and deciding whether to appeal -- Insurance guaranty fund principles -- v. 3. Separate insurance lines. Spotting issues in particular practice areas -- Understanding liability insurance -- Understanding commercial property insurance -- Understanding automobile insurance -- Understanding homeowner's insurance -- Understand life insurance -- Understanding disability insurance -- Understanding title insurance -- Understanding directors' and officers' liability insurance -- Understanding errors and omissions insurance -- Understanding multiple insurer situations -- Understanding reinsurance -- Understanding employment practice liability insurance -- Understanding environmental insurance.