Kenneth Abraham

Happy 4th of July from Charlottesville, home of Monticello and the University of Virginia, on the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

By the way, our guy wrote it.

Here's my latest,
"The Liability Revolution That No One Saw Coming"
78 Florida Law Review (forthcoming 2026)
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About the California Fires | Harvard Law Review The first principle of insurance reflects the fundamental lesson of the tragic California fires: you can’t get something for nothing. If expected losses from wildfires this year are $N, and the e

I just published this short Essay on the California fires:

About the California Fires, Harv. L. Rev. Blog (Jan. 27, 2025), harvardlawreview.org/blog/2025/01....

@bsky.app

Immediately after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Lloyds of London underwriter and syndicate head, Cuthbert E. Heath, cabled his agents in San Francisco, "Pay all our policyholders in full, irrespective of the terms of their policies." Our nation's insurers should follow his lead in LA.

Here's my latest, "Free Speech, Breathing Space, and Liability Insurance," 111 Virginia Law Review (forthcoming 2025):

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Happy to be on Bluesky as of today.