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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 Varsha Patel | June 11, 2020
The Swiss-based insurance group has appointed a quintet of firms to a new panel, focused on large and complex claims across the EMEA region.
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By Rose Walker | May 28, 2020
New awards include Best Use of Technology, Chambers of the Year and Risk and Compliance Advisers of the Year.
1 minute read
By Vincent Chow | April 15, 2020
Korean bank KB Financial is taking over the U.S. insurance giant's 30-year-old Korean arm.
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By Meganne Tillay | March 9, 2020
The combination will create one of the world's largest insurers.
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By Simon Lock | February 26, 2020
The new offering includes AI functions such as predicting medical damages and making automatic settlement recommendations.
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By Hannah Roberts | February 21, 2020
The week saw a U.K. firm hire six partners in London.
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By Krishnan Nair | February 14, 2020
News of the exodus follows a more than 60% fall in the AIM-listed firm's share price since the start of the year.
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By Christopher Niesche | Simon Lock | February 7, 2020
The team move is the latest in a series of defections from Norton Rose to Clyde & Co in Australia in recent years.
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By Hannah Roberts | January 29, 2020
The deal is the one of the largest longevity de-risking transaction ever written in the U.K.
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By Simon Lock | January 21, 2020
The firm has continued its recent Spanish growth with a combination with a local firm.
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By William G. Passannante and Raymond A. Mascia Jr. | October 1, 2023
In the authors' experience, insurance companies interpret the bump-up exclusion far too broadly and beyond the insurance industry's purported intent behind the exclusion. D&O policyholders should be prepared to resist such coverage denials.
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By Courtney C.T. Horrigan, John Ellison and Russell M. Squire | October 1, 2023
Hawaii, recently devastated by the Lahaina Fire, looks to be the first state to have its Supreme Court weigh in on the applicability of pollution exclusions to climate change lawsuits. This article examines what is at stake for policyholders and the road to recovery in this rapidly evolving area of insurance coverage law.
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By Jillian Raines and Alex Harris | October 1, 2023
How should a federal court decide whether to enforce a choice-of-law provision? That's the question at the heart of 'Great Lakes Ins. v. Raiders Retreat Realty', a maritime coverage dispute that will be argued before the Supreme Court. However the court rules, the decision could have wide-ranging implications for insurance disputes—even those on land.
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By Howard B. Epstein and Theodore A. Keyes | September 28, 2023
Recently, the Eastern District of New York granted summary judgment to an insurer, holding that the insurer had no duty to defend based on the terms of an exclusion in the policy. This decision highlights how, where the facts plainly fall within a clearly-drafted exclusion, courts will not hesitate to enforce the exclusion as written.
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By Patricia A. Monahan | September 28, 2023
While it is well known that an insured has a clear and convincing standard of proving bad faith in order to recover such damages, it is lesser recognized that an insured does not have to prove outrageous conduct or evil motive to prove entitlement to punitive damages.
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By Emily Cousins | September 27, 2023
"Absent any improvement whatsoever in [my client's health], they out of the blue do an about-face and declare [she] can work based primarily ... on a doctor three time zones away who wrote a five-page report," Ian O. Smith said. "For 22 years, I've been doing my best to counter that because ... under any standard, any reasonable person would view this as wrong."
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By Allison Dunn | September 27, 2023
"I am pleased with the decision from the Court of Appeals and I am proud of my office's efforts to ensure that these workers are treated fairly and given the benefits they right deserve," Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares said in a statement to Law.com.
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By Jacquelyn Mohr Heitman | September 27, 2023
Many policyholders misunderstand their relationship with their insurers. Having purchased an insurance policy, they assume that their insurer will make a good-faith effort to honor its contractual obligations, which is not always the case, according to Jacquelyn Mohr Heitman of Pasich.
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By Allison Dunn | September 25, 2023
"Here, we have concluded that Wesco's contacts with Massachusetts are unrelated to the claims in this case, and that whatever indirect contact (if any) Wesco had with Massachusetts related to Pray's claims is insufficient to satisfy due process," Massachusetts Appeals Associate Justice Peter Sacks wrote for the unanimous three-judge panel.
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By ALM Staff | September 25, 2023
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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