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Coverage that focuses on both the legal risks facing insurance companies, as well as how companies are using insurance to hedge risk. We cover health insurance and cyber insurance frequently.
By Jack Womack | February 19, 2024
It is the latest in a handful of recent changes at large corporate legal departments in London.
2 minute read
By Alexander Lugo | January 26, 2024
"Incidents of marine and yacht and cargo issues have continued to rise," said managing partner Kristen Perkins, who is relocating from Miami with two associates and one special counsel.
3 minute read
By Christopher Niesche | November 29, 2023
Lucinda Lyons had been in the job for just a year.
3 minute read
By Jennigay Coetzer | November 6, 2023
NRFSA's strategy is to ensure the firm has a bank of senior but younger lawyers to enable it to service clients for decades to come, says CEO.
2 minute read
By Charlotte Johnstone | September 7, 2023
The insurance and reinsurance facility will act as a back-stop in the event that the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund runs out.
2 minute read
By Amy Guthrie | September 4, 2023
The UK Top 50 firm has six offices in Latin America, as well as a regional hub in Miami that serves the region and associations in other countries.
2 minute read
By Gail J. Cohen | August 3, 2023
Partner Rick Da Costa joins the firm's financial services group in Toronto.
2 minute read
By Paul Grant, Signature Litigation | June 20, 2023
Pizza Express recently had its hopes of securing a pay-out dashed by the U.K. High Court in a judgment which could have far-reaching consequences for U.K. insurers.
4 minute read
By Alex D'Elia | May 24, 2023
Simmons & Simmons said it is further developing its insurance capabilities in Spain to help meet the demands of an expanding market.
2 minute read
By Peter Shaw-Smith | April 27, 2023
The departure sees HFW continue to grow its Middle East presence.
2 minute read
By Mercedes Diego | April 23, 2024
"As a direct response to the increased flood risks, New Jersey enacted a Flood Risk Notification Law. The law imposes strict requirements for landlords and sellers of real estate in the state," writes Mercedes Diego of Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf.
5 minute read
By Samuel H. Pond | April 19, 2024
I have written in the past about the failure of punitive damages to have the deterrent effect they were designed to have. Rather than deter intentional harm or egregious behavior, the threat punitive damages pose is seemingly ignored by corporations and employers who put profits before preventing harm, thanks in part to awards frequently being reduced on appeal.
9 minute read
By Michael J. Morris | April 18, 2024
"In practice, current state law and regulations make it uniquely challenging for health care payers and providers in New Jersey to implement VBC arrangements," writes Michael J. Morris.
9 minute read
By Alexander Lugo | April 17, 2024
Insurance work has shrunk as a consequence of the state's insurance crisis and recent legislative changes. But some firms are still hiring, betting that top lawyers will attract lucrative matters.
6 minute read
By David M. Barshay and Steven J. Neuwirth | April 12, 2024
Motorized scooters, mopeds and E-bikes are becoming more popular in both New York state and nationally. Several pieces of legislation have been passed allowing or expanding the use of lower speed E-bikes and E-scooters. Yet, the convenience and affordability also comes with a price in the form of injuries, sometimes fatal.
12 minute read
By Brian Lee | April 10, 2024
Noel Francisco, a former U.S. solicitor general, and partner-in-charge at Jones Day's Washington, D.C. office is set to argue on behalf of the coalition, while New York Assistant Solicitor General Laura Etlinger will argue for the New York State Department of Financial Services' 2017 regulation.
4 minute read
By Adolfo Pesquera | April 10, 2024
The insurance company allegedly withheld policy documentation showing the death-claim limit was $500,000. The initial proposal to which Tessmer Law and its clients are bound is $100,000.
4 minute read
By Howard B. Epstein and Theodore A. Keyes | April 10, 2024
While RWI policies are manuscripted policies separately negotiated for each transaction, the vast majority contain arbitration clauses, meaning that claim disputes are resolved privately without published court rulings. The recent ruling in 'Novolex Holdings v. Illinois Union Insurance' sheds some light on one of these claim disputes, while also providing important lessons for insurers and M&A practitioners.
8 minute read
By Colleen Murphy | April 5, 2024
The ruling, which denied Wausau Underwriters Insurance Co.'s motion for reconsideration, waded into a novel question of insurance law regarding coverage for a vehicle with an alternate garaging address than what's listed on the policy.
5 minute read
By James C. Haggerty, Jeffrey Stanton and Dennis Coyne | April 4, 2024
While merely striking affirmative defenses that should not have been in the action in the first place may not be a sufficient deterrent to curb the filing of frivolous defenses, where the assertion of such baseless prophylactic defenses occurs in first party insurance litigation, such as uninsured (UM) or underinsured (UIM) motorist claims, it may result in much harsher repercussions.
7 minute read
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