The ALI Votes to Approve the “Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance”

After nearly a decade of debate and controversy, the American Law Institute (ALI) voted to approve the much anticipated Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance (RLLI) at its annual meeting on Tuesday, May 22, 2018.  The project that ultimately resulted in the RLLI was launched in 2010, under the direction of Reporter Tom Baker of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and Associate Reporter Kyle D. Logue of Michigan Law School, and produced nearly 30 drafts through the lifecycle of the project, before …

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The ALI Set to Vote to Adopt the “Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance”

The American Law Institute (ALI) is set to vote to approve its much anticipated “Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance” Law at its annual meeting from May 21 to 23, 2018, in Washington, D.C. For almost 100 years, the ALI has published “Restatement of the Law” treatises on various legal topics which are meant to inform legal practitioners on general principles of common law, and courts will often look to these Restatements for guidance. In fact, according to ALI statistics, state and federal courts …

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