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Insurance Law
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.
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Insurance Practice DWF Takes Team of 53 Lawyers From Australian Firm
By Christopher Niesche | February 4, 2025
The firm has doubled its Australian headcount in the past six months.
1 minute read
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Kirkland, Debevoise & Nishimura Advise On $8.2B Japanese Acquisition of Resolution Life
By Kasvi Sehgal | December 11, 2024
The transaction, which sees seven law firms provide counsel, follows Nippon Life’s initial 2019 investment in the business in 2019.
1 minute read
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Covington Swipes Mishcon Insurance Disputes Head for New Practice Launch in London
By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | October 1, 2024
The latest hire comes as the firm's London office also gained two new partners in this year's promotion round.
3 minute read
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Asia Pacific Hires: Global Firms Kick Off Q4 with Flurry of Team Hires Across the Region
By Kasvi Sehgal | Christopher Niesche | October 1, 2024
Kennedys has expanded in New Zealand by taking over a specialist dispute resolution firm in the country's capital Wellington. Partners Alistair…
10 minute read
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DWF Buys Australian Claims Management Business
By Christopher Niesche | June 28, 2024
The purchase nearly doubles DWF's Australian workforce.
2 minute read
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Corporatizing Law: How This Law Firm Leader Plans to Build a Big Legal Business
By Christopher Niesche | June 25, 2024
Thomson Geer's Adrian Tembel says high-volume legal work in Australia will become corporatized.
5 minute read
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13-Strong Clyde & Co Madrid Team Exits for Kennedys
By Jack Womack | May 20, 2024
The 3-partner-led team departure is the latest in a series of insurance exits from Clyde & Co over recent months.
2 minute read
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Lloyd's of London Appoints First New GC in 27 Years
By Jack Womack | February 19, 2024
It is the latest in a handful of recent changes at large corporate legal departments in London.
2 minute read
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London-Based Insurance Law Firm Kennedys Opens 10th US Office in Fort Lauderdale
By Alexander Lugo | January 26, 2024
"Incidents of marine and yacht and cargo issues have continued to rise," said managing partner Kristen Perkins, who is relocating from Miami with two associates and one special counsel.
3 minute read
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Clyde & Co's Australian Managing Partner Departs for Kennedys
By Christopher Niesche | November 29, 2023
Lucinda Lyons had been in the job for just a year.
3 minute read
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Unit Owners Sued Board for Failure To Maintain Adequate Fire Insurance: This Week in Scott Mollen’s Realty Law Digest
By Scott Mollen | February 4, 2025
Scott Mollen discusses “Wong v. Board of Managers of One Sunset Park Condominium” where unit owners sued a condominium board for failure to maintain adequate fire insurance.
1 minute read
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Forum Clause Axes $844M Case Against Reinsurer Over Deadly Plane Crash, Judge Rules
By Mason Lawlor | February 3, 2025
The plaintiffs' attorney had told Law.com that the efforts of reinsurers to remove jurisdiction and avoid liability raised the risk of an insurance market crisis, as companies refused to reserve adequate funds in the face of ballooning judgments for air disasters.
1 minute read
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Georgia Republicans Push to Limit Lawsuits. But Would That Keep Insurance Rates From Rising?
By Charlotte Kramon | January 30, 2025
Gov. Brian Kemp will unveil his proposals today.
1 minute read
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What Florida Can Learn From California's Wildfire Crisis
By Mordechai L. Breier | January 29, 2025
Insurers are increasingly retreating from high-risk areas, attributing their actions to climate change, even though they have long possessed the tools and expertise to forecast and manage these risks. Instead of innovating, many insurance companies have shifted their focus toward maximizing profits by cutting coverage, raising premiums, and ultimately leaving millions of policyholders exposed.
1 minute read
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Imputing Negligence and Risk Transfer
By Julian D. Ehrlich | January 29, 2025
New York case law allows owners and general contractors in Labor Law cases to impute workers’ negligence to their employers through third-party contractual indemnity claims. Julian Ehrlich discusses how this principle should also enable owners and general contractors to obtain additional insured coverage from most employers’ commercial general liability insurance policies.
1 minute read
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Low-Speed Electric Scooters and PIP, Not Perfect Together
By Louis F. Locascio | January 28, 2025
Are the medical expenses, incurred in treating injuries sustained in an automobile accident by the operator of a low-speed electric scooter, payable under the personal injury protection (PIP) provision of the operator’s no-fault automobile insurance policy?
1 minute read
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Digital Assets and the ‘Physical Loss’ Dilemma: How the Fourth Circuit’s Ruling on Crypto Theft Stands at Odds With Modern Realities
By Kevin V. Small and Charlotte E. Leszinske | January 28, 2025
Digital property is, well, not “physical” in the tangible sense. Though it is physical in that it is real and has real value, it cannot be held in your hand. As a result, some courts have elected to rigidly apply vintage caselaw about property insurance to conclude that digital property is not covered, simply because it does not have a corporeal form. Doing so fails to recognize that this caselaw was decided before property could be nonphysical.
1 minute read
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'They Are Never Going to Learn': Geico Not Protected by Litigation Privilege
By Emily Cousins | January 24, 2025
A Connecticut appellate court is allowing a plaintiff to proceed with claims that Geico acted in bad faith.
1 minute read
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'Didn't Notice Patient Wasn't Breathing': $13.7M Verdict Against Anesthesiologists
By Cedra Mayfield | January 22, 2025
Bibb County State Court jurors have returned a $13.7 million medical malpractice verdict against a pair of anesthesiologists whose alleged breached standard of care contributed to the death of a patient.
1 minute read
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New Trouble for Allstate: National Class Action Targets Insurer
By Emily Cousins | January 17, 2025
The class action was filed in the Northern District of Illinois. It goes further than the claims on behalf of Texas consumers in the state action, and looks to encompass a national class.
1 minute read
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