(The ultimate digression:  starting a post with a digression:  This beautiful blog was created, and is "hosted," by LexBlog, the only legal blog outfit in town worth talking to when you decide to drop blogger, typepad and the like and go professional).

That said (I don't say it enough -- thanks Kevin!) I learn from LexBlog's Blog today that Chubb Insurance has apparently reconsidered denying coverage to its attorney-blogging insureds.  And if I was going to reconsider a coverage decision, you bet your boots it would be my attorney-insureds that would make me re-consider the most quickly.

Here's Kevin's report: 

[Chubb] now says law firms publishing blogs will be covered by their malpractice policy so long as lawyers are not answering specific questions in a way that could be construed to be legal advice.

That from James Rhyner, worldwide lawyers professional manager for Chubb Specialty Insurance, in speaking with Lisa Berman, reporting for the New Jersey Law Journal (pdf of story).

Chubb does insure this new form of communication -- and will continue to do so within select parameters.

Ryhner also acknowledged, as reported by Berman, "[T]hat there have been no malpractice suits against blogging lawyers in the United States over bad legal advice. But he cites a U.K. suit involving Lloyd's of London that he is monitoring.