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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 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 Christopher Niesche | April 1, 2022
Matt Dudakov was hired to take the lead in helping the firm expand its general insurance practice in Australia.
2 minute read
By Jack Womack | March 30, 2022
With fierce competition between law firms for spots on insurer panels, some believe that consolidation pressure is growing.
4 minute read
By Jack Womack | March 28, 2022
The combined law firm will become the 12th largest by revenue in the U.K.
3 minute read
By Jack Womack | March 18, 2022
The combined firm, known simply as Clyde & Co, is set to have revenues of around £735 million.
2 minute read
By Emmanuéle Lutfalla and Tara Farasat | March 18, 2022
Increasing intense weather events will drive up the cost of the associated losses and of the policies designed to cover them.
5 minute read
By Jack Womack | January 10, 2022
It is the second European DLA Piper team departure this week.
2 minute read
By Jack Womack | Krishnan Nair | December 2, 2021
Concerns have been raised over BLM's financial difficulties and other stressors in recent years.
4 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
By Colleen Murphy | March 27, 2024
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3 minute read
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."
3 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
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