The unique three-volume set combines procedural guidance and incisive analysis of the law. The task-based format is designed to fit comfortably into your work flow and guides you through how to determine the merits of a coverage dispute and then whether and how to successfully arbitrate, mediate, settle, sue, or defend. It helps you understand pertinent procedural rules and strategies as well as the substantive law applicable to all major insurance lines.

Sixty expert authors, consultants and the Hon. Timothy Tymkovich, of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, contributed strategic insights, which are delivered as practice tips throughout the publication. New Appleman Insurance Law Practice Guide also features numerous examples, checklists and forms. There are abundant sample searches and cross references that take you to pertinent ISO forms, Miller’s Standard Insurance Forms Annotated® and LexisNexis insurance and civil procedure publications to enable deeper research and allow you to answer the most complex insurance coverage questions.

You’ll find authoritative and practical coverage throughout the guide’s 40 chapters, including:

• Considering agent and broker liability
  
• Interpreting insurance policy provisions
  
• Applying doctrines that override principles of policy interpretation
  
• Considering bad faith
  
• Researching insurance coverage
  
• Tendering the claim
  
• Determining the insurer’s response
  
• Initiating 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 and working with expert witnesses
  
• Determining whether to file motions for summary judgment and adjudication
  
• Settling insurance coverage cases
  
• Considerations involved in settlement of the underlying case
  
• Considering alternative dispute resolution
  
• Trial strategies
  
• Deciding whether to appeal
  
• Insurance Guaranty Fund principles
  
• Spotting issues in particular practice areas
  
• Understanding liability, property, auto, homeowner’s, life, disability, title, directors’ and officers’, and errors and omissions insurance, as well as reinsurance
  
• Addressing issues involving multiple insurers
  

The publication is available electronically on Lexis.com and the electronic version will be updated monthly.

A new print edition will be published in 2008.