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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 Mark McNeill & Alexander G. Leventhal | April 12, 2023
Judge Richard Leon of the DC District Court issued a decision in Blasket Renewable Investments, LLC v. Kingdom of Spain granting Spain's motion to dismiss an application to confirm an arbitral award issued under the Energy Charter Treaty - the decision leaves more questions than answers.
6 minute read
By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | March 30, 2023
The hire comes amid a number of senior in-house appointments at U.K. organisations.
2 minute read
By Linda A. Thompson | February 1, 2023
The firm said the new offices will include its insurance offering for clients in Europe as well as add new advisory and corporate regulatory capabilities.
2 minute read
By Jack Womack | January 11, 2023
The office is set to open in the coming months and will achieve a "long term ambition" for the firm.
2 minute read
By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | January 9, 2023
The major U.K. insurer has conducted its first general insurance legal panel review in a decade.
2 minute read
By Jack Womack | January 4, 2023
Clyde & Co has expanded rapidly in the last year, merging with insurance firm BLM in July 2022.
2 minute read
By Hannah Walker | December 20, 2022
The partner will join insurance giant Rothesay as its next general counsel.
2 minute read
By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | December 16, 2022
Simon Konsta helped secure the firm's merger with Barlow Lyde & Gilbert.
2 minute read
By Bruce Hepburn | December 16, 2022
Legal claims against insurance companies are tripling, what's the impact on the legal industry?
5 minute read
By Hannah Walker | December 5, 2022
It is the eighth lateral partner hire in the last three months for HFW, as it continues to ramp up global growth.
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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