{"id":105,"date":"2013-04-01T18:40:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T18:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2021-12-21T20:06:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:06:18","slug":"no-do-coverage-for-claim-based-on-acts-before-retroactive-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/no-do-coverage-for-claim-based-on-acts-before-retroactive-date\/","title":{"rendered":"No D&#038;O coverage for claim based on acts before Retroactive Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Graham\">Chris Graham<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Kelly\">Joseph Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=2954340661481746362&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=lang_en&amp;as_sdt=2,14&amp;as_vis=1&amp;oi=scholaralrt\">Aspen Insurance UK, Ltd. v. Absolute Return Solutions, Inc., et al, Case No. C12-1491MJP (W.D. WA Feb. 5, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>D&amp;O insurer granted summary judgment that it had no obligation to defend or indemnify insureds based on policy\u2019s Retroactive Date of September 1, 2010 because all alleged wrongdoing occurred no later than 2009.   Retroactive dates limit coverage to a specific date defined in the policy.  Here, \u201cRetroactive Date\u201d meant the date \u201cfrom which coverage has been maintained by the insured without interruption.\u201d  There was a gap in coverage between Insureds prior D&amp;O policy which expired on August 21, 2010 and the policy at issue which began on September 1, 2010.  Summary judgment was granted because the first date of uninterrupted coverage was September 1, 2010 \u2013 after the alleged wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Chris Graham and Joseph Kelly Aspen Insurance UK, Ltd. v. Absolute Return Solutions, Inc., et al, Case No. C12-1491MJP (W.D. WA Feb. 5, 2013 D&amp;O insurer granted summary judgment that it had no obligation to defend or indemnify insureds based on policy\u2019s Retroactive Date of September 1, 2010 because all alleged wrongdoing occurred no [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3231,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/3231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}