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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 Claire Ruckin | March 30, 2010
Beachcroft has added four new partners to its ranks with the acquisition of insurance boutique Williams Holden Cooklin Gibbons (WHCG). The deal, which is due to complete on 4 May, will see Beachcroft take on the firm in its entirety, including London-based partners Hugh Williams, Andrew Cooklin, Richard Fisher, Karen Cargill and Alastair Cornforth as well as Auckland-based founding member Antony Holden.
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By Legal Week | March 12, 2010
Sidley Austin has boosted its London insurance capability with a double partner hire in the City. Martin Membery and Matthew Griffith both join the US firm from Pinsent Masons. Membery was the head of the national firm's insurance practice, specialising in non-contentious insurance and reinsurance projects, while Griffith was made up to partner in 2004.
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By Jeremy Hodges | March 11, 2010
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has made its first lateral partner hire in the City since losing a seven-partner team to Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker in January 2009. Simmons & Simmons insurance and reinsurance head Jennifer Donohue is set to join the US law firm in April after three years with Simmons, becoming the fifth partner in Cadwalader's London office.
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By Sofia Lind | March 10, 2010
Norton Rose has hired a new partner who will relocate to Singapore to head up the firm's local insurance practice. Anna Tipping is set to join Norton Rose as a partner from Linklaters' City base, where she was a counsel.
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By Legal Week | March 9, 2010
Sullivan & Cromwell and Weil Gotshal & Manges have taken key roles on AIG's $15.5bn (£10.4bn) sale of its life insurance unit to rival company MetLife, reports The Am Law Daily. Sullivan advised AIG on the sale of the American Life Insurance Company (Alico), in the latest in a series of sell-offs designed to help the company repay its massive debt to the US Government.
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By Claire Ruckin | February 24, 2010
Bond Pearce is to bolster its London office with the hire of ex-Barlow Lyde & Gilbert senior partner Richard Dedman. Dedman is set to join the regional firm's base in the capital as a partner, having served as a partner with Barlows for three decades.
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By Claire Ruckin | February 8, 2010
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group has appointed David Casement into the newly-created role of European general counsel. Casement, the former general counsel at Chubb Europe's commercial lines department, joined the Japanese insurance giant last month. He has been charged with building an in-house legal capability as well as forming the company's first legal panel.
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By Emma Sadowski | February 3, 2010
It took some time to get there, and it didn't pan out as initially expected, but the conclusion to the merger talks between Clyde & Co and Shadbolt appears to be a good result for the London-based insurance firm. Talks between the two started over a year ago after the construction boutique completed a strategic review of its business. The retirement of high-profile name partner Dick Shadbolt in 2008 left the firm without a clear-cut strategy and struggling to maintain its financial performance, according to a variety of partners familiar with the firm. With 18 partners spread across its offices in London, Guildford, Reigate and Paris, Shadbolt was struggling to adopt its focus of handling corporate and projects work for UK subcontractors to an increasingly international construction market.
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By Claire Ruckin | January 13, 2010
Who says insurance is the slow lane of commercial law? Certainly not Kennedys which, not content with breaking into the UK top 50 last year on the back of 30% revenue growth, in December secured itself an early Christmas present with a deal to take on a 70-strong team in Sheffield from Halliwells.
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By Legal Week | December 18, 2009
Kennedys is set to launch an office in Sheffield with the hire of a 70-strong team, including eight partners, from Halliwells. The UK top 50 firm will officially open in Sheffield in the New Year, bringing its total number of offices across the UK to nine.
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By Jonathan A. Dachs | December 6, 2021
The insurer's duty to defend its insured has recently been the subject of numerous decisions by the courts of this state, which Jonathan Dachs discusses and cites in this edition of his Insurance Law column.
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By ALM Staff | December 3, 2021
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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By ALM Staff | December 3, 2021
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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By ALM Staff | December 3, 2021
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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By ALM Staff | December 3, 2021
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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By Edward T. Kang and Ryan T. Kirk | December 2, 2021
This column will focus primarily on self-funded plans, the types of disputes that often arise relating to these plans, and suggestions for avoiding or resolving these disputes.
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By Michael A. Mora | December 1, 2021
When insurance companies need an expert witness in high-stakes marine engine surveys, Miguel Oliveira is the name on the top of their list.
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By Dax Craig | November 29, 2021
To protect businesses and employees, it is critical to understand workers' comp requirements for remote staff.
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By Allison Dunn | November 24, 2021
The Utah Court of Appeals sided with an insurance company last week after it determined that a woman didn't successfully apply for increased coverage for her ailing husband despite a suspected glitch in her employer's system that led to higher premiums being deducted from her paycheck.
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By ALM Staff | November 23, 2021
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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