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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 Habiba Cullen-Jafar | September 1, 2022
The lawyer had been at Cooley since 2015.
2 minute read
By Paul Hodkinson | July 22, 2022
The early signs are that the UK legal industry is struggling to keep up, writes this week's London Lawyer, plus an insurance scandal that has sent shockwaves.
4 minute read
By Paul Hodkinson | July 19, 2022
The move sent 'shockwaves' as it could mean insurers try to avoid lawsuits by ending professional indemnity cover for law firms advising claimants.
3 minute read
By Varsha Patel | July 1, 2022
The two firms voted through the merger in late March, with the majority of BLM's lawyers joining Clyde & Co's casualty insurance practice.
3 minute read
By Jack Womack | June 23, 2022
Profits at the firm will be impacted after the firm began spending on "optional" areas after a period of saving due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2 minute read
By Jack Womack | June 8, 2022
The team move is the latest in a series of departures from BLM ahead of its merger with Clyde & Co.
2 minute read
By Christopher Niesche | May 25, 2022
Fresh from its 18-strong raid of DLA Piper earlier in 2022, the firm's latest office opening is intended to enable lawyers to work from their own town in South Australia.
2 minute read
By Jillian Raines and Amber N. Morris | May 23, 2022
Many prudent businesses are revisiting their insurance portfolio, seeking confirmation that their coverage will adequately protect them if they are victimized by increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, including those connected to the acute conflict in Ukraine.
8 minute read
By Amy Guthrie | April 28, 2022
The insurance-focused global firm has charted a growth path across Latin America and the Caribbean since opening a regional hub in Miami in 2010.
3 minute read
By Jack Womack | April 27, 2022
As sanctions regimes evolved, some insurers pulled cover for Russia-related work which pressured law firms into ceasing operations in the country, several partners say.
6 minute read
By John Bonnie and Steve Rapp | March 20, 2024
The Georgia direct-action statutes still provide a narrow exception to the otherwise strident rule that direct actions by a claimant against an allegedly liable insured cannot be maintained until there is a judgment against the insured, and Georgia, therefore, remains in a reported minority of just four states allowing direct actions in any context.
10 minute read
By Jerry M. Lehocky | March 19, 2024
Those personal injury attorneys representing injured workers in their third-party claims who do not understand this interplay and blindly rely on the third party settlement form risk potentially committing legal malpractice.
8 minute read
By Sandra Jones | March 18, 2024
SNTs are usually for the most vulnerable of structured settlement payees as a trusted means of asset protection. SNTs will receive the periodic payments directly from the annuity issuer, and the SNT trustees have a fiduciary duty to spend the trust situs for the benefit of each beneficiary.
8 minute read
By Michael A. Sirignano and Sean Gorton | March 7, 2024
The final two defendants in 'United States v. Pierre' pled guilty to charges stemming from their involvement in an insurance fraud scheme. Pending sentencing, the guilty pleas conclude a two-year prosecution that exposed a scheme to hijack New York's no-fault insurance system for personal profit.
9 minute read
By Mason Lawlor | March 6, 2024
The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court for the County of Sacramento, raised California Insurance Code Sections 10113.71 and 10113.72, which require life insurers to comply with a 60-day grace period and provide proper notice before terminating a policy for nonpayment of premiums.
3 minute read
By Cheryl Miller | March 5, 2024
During oral arguments, the justices asked repeatedly why COVID-19 business losses should be covered by commercial property insurance policies.
3 minute read
By Daniel E. Cummins | February 29, 2024
On Jan. 29, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its long-awaited and much anticipated decision in the regular use exclusion case of Rush v. Erie Insurance Exchange, and, in doing so, seemed to signal a possible continuing movement away from its previous penchant for advancing plaintiffs' causes in personal injury matters and toward a more reasoned, moderate approach to civil litigation questions of law.
7 minute read
By Mason Lawlor | February 23, 2024
The dispute from personal injury firm Lanier Law Group and an insurer stems from a privacy class action alleging that the firm obtained "protected personal information" from plaintiffs in connection with advertisements for legal services without their consent.
6 minute read
By Vasilios J. Kalogredis | February 23, 2024
The opinion concludes that although the proposed arrangement, if undertaken, would generate prohibited remuneration under the AKS (if the requisite intent were present), as well as the Beneficiary Inducements CMP, the OIG would not impose administrative sanctions on the Medigap plan or PHO.
11 minute read
By Dan Roe | February 21, 2024
Debt finance partner Paul Sandler arrived from Paul Weiss, Kirkland announced on Wednesday, alongside an insurance M&A partner from Sidley Austin and two real estate tax lawyers from Weil Gotshal.
2 minute read
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