After years of litigation over the proper venue for climate change lawsuits, several federal courts of appeal have recently sent those cases to state courts across the nation, where they are now set to move forward. This...more
4/27/2022
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Venue
This article follows on from a series of previous articles seeking to address climate change litigation in the context of insurance and reinsurance. Three different, but important, decisions in December 2019 have once again...more
1/30/2020
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European Convention on Human Rights ,
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Insurance Claims ,
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Martin Act ,
Natural Disasters ,
Oil & Gas ,
Philippines ,
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Reinsurance ,
Risk Management ,
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Supreme Court of the Netherlands ,
Underwriting
This is the third of five articles addressing climate change lawsuits in the context of (re)insurance.
Following on from our previous article which highlighted the developing and varying body of climate change cases...more