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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.
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By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | March 30, 2023
The hire comes amid a number of senior in-house appointments at U.K. organisations.
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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.
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By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | January 9, 2023
The major U.K. insurer has conducted its first general insurance legal panel review in a decade.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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By Colleen Murphy | March 27, 2024
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By Michael A. Mora | March 25, 2024
Among the lawsuits is a civil RICO action over allegations that the insurer and 10 other carriers have operated as a "cartel."
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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.
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