Lynda Bennett Quoted in Bloomberg Law on Insurance Litigation Trend

The article explains that the decision in Rockefeller University v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. gave policyholders a path around decades-old precedent from New York University v. Continental Insurance Co., which had made it difficult to bring bad-faith and deceptive-practices claims against carriers. 

Bennett, who represents policyholders, told Bloomberg Law that Rockefeller is essentially the first ruling to align with what lawmakers intended when they reopened New York's Child Victims Act statute. 

“This is the wake-up call that the courts are going to follow what the legislatures were trying to do when the whole reopening of the statutes happened,” Bennett said. 

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