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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 Suzi Ring | February 2, 2011
Holman Fenwick Willan has grown its City corporate insurance arm with the hire of two partners from the London office of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge. Richard Spiller and Ashwani Kochhar joined Holman Fenwick as partners on 1 February 2011 from the City office of the Boston law firm. Spiller was co-chair of the UK regulatory and transactional practice at Edwards Angell and specialises in non-contentious insurance matters including transactions and regulation.
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By Suzi Ring | January 26, 2011
Barlow Lyde & Gilbert commercial risk and reinsurance partner Jason Bright is set to leave the firm to join Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC). Bright resigned from Barlows in December 2010 but his departure date has yet to be confirmed. He will join RPC as a partner in its insurance practice.
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By Suzi Ring | January 7, 2011
Weightmans is in formal merger talks with national firms Mace & Jones and Vizards Wyeth. RollOnFriday first reported news of the talks with Vizards earlier today (7 January), with Weightmans later confirming that it is in talks with both Vizards and Mace & Jones.
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By Suzi Ring | January 4, 2011
Beachcroft is set to launch its first office in Asia, with the opening of a base in Singapore. City insurance partner Ben Nicholson is relocating to Singapore to lead the office, which will open in February and will advise clients on complex and high value commercial disputes, with a particular focus on insurers and reinsurers. The office will formally launch in May.
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By Claire Ruckin | December 14, 2010
LG has strengthened its City insurance team with the hire of Antony Woodhouse from Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge. Woodhouse joined the firm last week (8 December) as a partner and will work closely with LG insurance and reinsurance head Nick Bradley and practice partner David Breslin.
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By Claire Ruckin | December 9, 2010
Beachcroft has overhauled its claims division, creating a free-standing practice with new senior management. The national firm's insurance partner James Morris has been appointed to the newly-created role of chairman of the claims division, which has been renamed Claims Solutions.
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By Suzi Ring | December 6, 2010
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has proposed a number of changes to law firms' insurance arrangements in the run-up to the introduction of Alternative Business Structures (ABSs) next year. Following an independent review commissioned by the SRA this summer, the regulator is now proposing to remove the single renewal date for professional indemnity insurance (PII) and allow renewal at any time of the year.
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By Suzi Ring | November 29, 2010
Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) has set up an association in Chile through an alliance with local firm SegurosLex, with a view to a future merger deal. The formal alliance, which went live today (29 November), gifts the firm its third presence in Latin America. The firm set up an association with Brazilian firm JBO Advocacia in September this year after launching an office in Mexico City in 2003.
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By Sofia Lind | November 24, 2010
Legacy Denton Wilde Sapte and Travelers have launched a claim against the former head of Dentons' India group in a bid to reclaim £779,000 worth of costs stemming from a 2009 court case. The law firm and the insurer are suing Gauri Advani, who was a defendant alongside Dentons in a case brought by two of her former clients, in which Advani was alleged to have committed bribery.
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By Sofia Lind | November 18, 2010
Barlow Lyde & Gilbert is set for more departures with two City partners quitting the firm to join CMS Cameron McKenna. Insurance specialists Mike Munro and James Parker will join the financial services and capital markets team at Camerons, with a start date yet to be confirmed. Munro, the former head of Barlows' corporate and commercial practice, was recently replaced in the role by partner Simon Gamblin.
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By ALM Staff | January 25, 2022
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the document here.
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By Hannah Smith JD | January 24, 2022
Some policyholders in New Jersey already received notice that the law may increase car insurance premiums drastically.
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By Andrew Larson | January 21, 2022
The plaintiffs claimed property damage because the virus is "spread through droplets of different sizes, which can be deposited on surfaces or objects," which they said "physically altered and damaged" their facilities.
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By Aleeza Furman | January 21, 2022
Congress' intent in passing the acts implied a private right of action to enforce the reimbursement requirement, a Texas federal judge ruled.
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By Cedra Mayfield | January 20, 2022
"Although our standard of review is deferential, it does not mean that we 'merely rubber stamp' an [administrative law judge's] decision," read the 11th Circuit opinion. "The record does not contain such evidence that a reasonable person would accept as adequate to support the [administrative law judge's] conclusion."
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By Stephen Masciocchi and Tina Van Bockern | January 20, 2022
The court reasoned that the temporary inability to use property caused by COVID shutdown orders doesn't involve a covered physical loss of property, and in any event, the policy's virus exclusion applied.
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Delaware Business Court Insider
By Ellen Bardash | January 19, 2022
Several questions centered on policy language barring coverage for claims that are "the same as or related to" each other, not necessarily identical.
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By Walter Andrews, Andrea DeField and Sima Kazmir | January 17, 2022
Cyberattacks are an unavoidable business risk. A recent U.S. Treasury Department report observed that through June 30, 2021, the total value of suspicious activity associated with ransomware transactions in 2021 was $590 million, exceeding the total value reported for all of 2020.
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By Melea VanOstrand | January 13, 2022
The big question was whether the homeowner made an incorrect statement or an intentionally incorrect statement.
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By Ellen Bardash | January 11, 2022
Two Ohio counties that are seeking purely economic damages in the case didn't prove what costs were incurred by those who treated individuals affected by opioid use, Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz Jr. concluded.
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