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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 Gerard Starkey | April 16, 2013
Clyde and Co is launching in Madrid with the hire of a four-partner insurance team from DAC Beachcroft's local office, including former Madrid managing partner Ignacio Figuerol. Members of the nine-lawyer team, including partners Figuerol, Ricardo Garrido, Pablo Guillen and Miguel Relano, have handed in their resignations and are currently discussing their exits from the firm.
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By Pui-Guan Man | April 10, 2013
Berrymans Lace Mawer has made up 17 lawyers in its partnership round this year, almost double the number promoted in 2012. The promotions have seen seven partners made up in the insurance firm's London office, with two new partners in the professional indemnity practice and one in healthcare, alongside four promoted in personal injury.
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By Mairi MacDonald | April 9, 2013
Law firms must improve their international focus if they are to earn a position on London market insurers' panels, as claims bosses plan reviews of their legal partners.
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By Gerard Starkey | April 5, 2013
Quindell Portfolio, the parent company of law firms Silverbeck Rymer and Pinto Potts, has agreed a five-year deal with motoring giant RAC worth an estimated £500m a year. The agreement, which starts immediately, will see Quindell handle RAC's car accident claims in areas such as personal injury, medical reporting, rehabilitation and car repairs.
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By Gerard Starkey | April 5, 2013
Insurance giant Admiral has made a major move into the legal services market after sealing two alternative business structure (ABS) joint ventures with law firms Lyons Davidson and Cordner Lewis. The Solicitors Regulation Authority has granted alternative ABS licences for the two ventures - Admiral Law and BDE Law - which will see Admiral team up with Bristol's Lyons Davidson and Cardiff's Cordner respectively.
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By Gerard Starkey | April 3, 2013
Parabis has opened its second office in Scotland after securing a five-strong defendant insurance team from Brodies to launch an Edinburgh base. The new office, which opened yesterday (2 April), will be headed up by new partner Laurie Traynor alongside associates Stuart Mackie, Julie Fisher, Sarah Crewes and solicitor advocate James Peden.
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By Gerard Starkey | March 27, 2013
Clifford Chance (CC) and Linklaters have played lead roles on Royal London's £219m purchase of the Co-operative Banking Group's life insurance business. The deal is set to see Royal London, the UK's largest mutual life and pensions company, acquire Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) and The Co-operative Asset Management.
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By Gerard Starkey | March 21, 2013
DAC Beachcroft has boosted its international footprint after sealing two associations with firms in Colombia and Malaysia. The Colombia deal with De La Torre & Monroy, which is top-ranked by Chambers and Partners for insurance work in the Southeast Asian country, is an extension of the Botoga-based firm's existing relationship with legacy Davies Arnold Cooper, with which Beachcroft merged in 2011.
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By Legal Week | March 20, 2013
Parabis Group has appointed the former head of general insurance at the Co-operative Banking Group to its board. David Neave, who was managing director of general insurance the Co-op Group from 2005 until February this year, joins insurance specialist Parabis as a non-executive director. He is the first board appointment made since the group converted to an alternative business structure in August 2012.
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By Pui-Guan Man | March 14, 2013
Allen & Overy (A&O) and Slaughter and May have led on a deal that has seen the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) give up control of UK insurer Direct Line with a £507m share sale. RBS, which sold a 34.72% share in Direct Line when it listed on the London Stock Exchange last year, has now sold a further 15.3%, reducing its stake in the insurer to just below 50%.
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By Colleen Murphy | June 23, 2022
The New Jersey Appellate Division stated that the trial court "erroneously" found the defendant insurers' policy terms to be "ambiguous and confusing."
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By Allison Dunn | June 23, 2022
"Regardless of whether 'loss' means 'deprivation' or 'failing to keep possession' or whether 'property' includes leaseholds or buildings, this court has squarely determined that 'direct physical loss of' property does not mean what [plaintiffs] say[] it means," the federal appeals court wrote. "It refers to the direct physical loss of property, not the use of property."
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By Michael A. Mora | June 22, 2022
"There have been hundreds of thousands of assignments of benefits lawsuits that have been filed since the enactment of the statute," said Jake D. Huxtable, a partner at Kelley Kronenberg. "And these AOB contractors do not contain this per unit cost estimate that is signed and executed by the homeowner."
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By Colleen Murphy | June 22, 2022
The proposed legislation would increase medical expense coverage, remove the limitation on lawsuit option for victims of drunken drivers, and raise the minimum liability coverage for commercial vehicles, among other changes.
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By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | June 22, 2022
The issue of first impression in Georgia law came to the high court via a certified question from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
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Delaware Business Court Insider
By ALM Staff | June 22, 2022
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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By Colleen Murphy | June 22, 2022
"We recognize that COVID-19 has caused overwhelming economic losses to untold businesses and individuals dependent on those businesses in our state, nation, and the world," the court said. "Nevertheless, in the context of the issues presented in this appeal, plaintiffs' insurance claims are restricted by the clear and plain meaning of their insurance policies, which we cannot rewrite to cover their unfortunate losses."
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By Mason Lawlor | June 21, 2022
"[A]n agreement between two parties will only occur when the minds of the parties meet at the same time, upon the same subject matter, and in the same sense," Judge M. Yvette Miller wrote in her opinion.
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By Justin Henry | June 21, 2022
After a net loss of 10 attorneys in 2021, the insurance defense law firm has lost 20 lawyers so far in 2022, eight more than it has been able to recruit.
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By Michael A. Mora | June 17, 2022
"This appellate court ruling is a victory for employees in Miami-Dade County who are being discriminated against and are now not restricted from pursuing their rights," said Chad E. Levy, a plaintiffs attorney.
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