D&O Insurance Myths (Part 1)
Blogging made him both the Pope and the Tom Hanks of D&O insurance - Legally Contented Podcast
D&O Insurance: Better to Have it And Not Need it Than Need it And Not Have it
ESG is All The Rage, but How Does It Intersect with the D&O and RWI Insurance Markets?
Has the SPAC Bubble Burst? Lessons Learned From the Early Days of SPAC Mania
Smoother Sailing or Choppy Waters: What Lies Ahead for the 2022 D&O Market?
Takeaways From Recent Claims Against Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook – Mitigating the Heightened Risk of Privacy Suits Against Individual Directors and Officers
Wait, are we related? Well, that depends on the facts and circumstances of each Claim
Don’t Step on a Crack in the SPAC/deSPAC Insurance Claim Process
The Intersection of Insurance and Bankruptcy – Part 2
NGE On Demand: Insurance and Indemnity Issues for Family Offices with Angela Elbert
The Brave New Frontier of Securing D&O Insurance for SPACs and deSPACs
NGE On Demand: Insurance Issues in Bankruptcy with Jason Frye
The D&O Renewal Market: Will the Wild Ride of Premium Increases, Stretched Capacity and Restrictive Terms Continue?
On-Demand Webinar | Insurance Issues Faced by Employers in Times of COVID-19
Internal Investigations: The Impact of the Yates Memo, the FCPA Unit Pilot Program and Recent Legal Decisions
The Intersection of Cyber and D&O Coverage
Is Private/Non-Profit D&O Coverage Under Priced?
Halliburton: Good for the Plaintiffs’ Bar?
D&O in Brazil and Latin America
As AI technologies like ChatGPT and other generative AI tools have gained prominence, our clients have started raising questions about their insurance coverage. Among the most frequently asked are: These questions highlight...more
Managing these risks at a single company should be straightforward. Executives and CISOs may be personally held accountable for cyber failings, negligence, breaches, and inadequate disclosure around cyber vulnerabilities and...more
After two years of volatility, cyber liability prices finally appear to be normalizing due to factors that include a downturn in price increases and a lower frequency of ransomware attacks in 2022—all of which have resulted...more
Energy companies in the power and oil and gas sectors are leading targets of cyberattacks, as threats to critical infrastructure systems continue to rise. A 2021 report by a third-party cyberrisk company found that a quarter...more
1.0 CYBER MARKET UPDATE - 1.1 US Market Update - To call 2021 anything other than a sea change in the cyber insurance world would be an understatement. Indeed, nearly all cyber insurance renewals saw increases in...more
It goes without saying that cybersecurity is a top D&O liability concern for organizations today. According to Willis Towers Watson’s 2018 Management Liability (Directors and Officers) U.S. Survey, respondents cited cyber...more
Despite the existence of cybersecurity insurance, companies still seek coverage for cyber liability under various types of other insurance. Carriers, in turn, rely upon broad exclusions to limit coverage for risks never...more
Businesses are increasingly purchasing dedicated cyber insurance policies to address their cyber and data security exposures. To date, however, many of the judicial decisions addressing insurance for cyber exposures have done...more
For many D&O insurers, the risk of exposure posed by cybersecurity incidents involving their insureds has been unclear at best. Cybersecurity incidents, and the corresponding shareholder claims that follow, pose unique and...more
Scarcely a day goes by without news headlines reporting yet another data breach or cyber crime incident, which can have devastating consequences for any business in terms of both reputation and balance sheet. A cyber...more
Takeaways - Companies that suffer cyberattacks can expect not sympathy but scrutiny from legal authorities. - D&O insurance can cover not only litigation but also investigation costs. - Strategic negotiation of...more
Farella’s Insurance Recovery Group lawyers regularly collaborate with and learn from different players and functions within the insurance industry. To provide more value to our readers, we have reached out to a series of...more
It has been said that there are two types of companies in the world – those that have been hacked, and those that do not yet know they have been hacked. While perhaps an overstatement, it seems that every day, another company...more
On October 12, 2015, Nossaman and UC Irvine hosted a Cyber Symposium at the City Club in Los Angeles. The event included four panels of Nossaman lawyers, UCI professors, and private professionals who are experts in the areas...more
Five Lessons Health Care Companies Should Learn From Cyberattacks - The American health care industry is under attack by sophisticated hackers seeking access to electronic medical records. Since January, three health...more
Welcome to the latest edition of Pillsbury’s Perspectives on Insurance Recovery. As this 2015 edition of Perspectives demonstrates, our team is working on the most challenging issues—from cyber-insurance and complex claims...more
In the wake of what seems to be daily announcements of new data security breaches and increased regulatory oversight over company information security and privacy practices, companies are looking for ways to minimize risks...more
It’s a familiar pattern. First, new risks inspire legislation and regulations that impose new penalties. Next, insurers and policyholders fight over whether the new liabilities are covered under traditional liability...more
From the 2015 PLUS D&O Symposium session “Parting Shots: A Conversation with Industry Leaders,” moderator James Skarzynski (Skarzynski Black LLC) and panelists Dan Fortin (Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance), Lisa Butera...more
With major data breaches again making news, it is important for corporate policyholders to keep abreast of insurance developments in this emerging and fast-moving area. In this update, we provide some thoughts on cyber...more
Encryption Flaw "Heartbleed" Creates Data Risk: How Insurance Can Stanch the Bleeding - In early April, news broke of an encryption flaw named “Heartbleed” that exposed companies to data breaches for over two and one...more
Recent examples of data breaches resulting in invasion of privacy lawsuits abound. Target and other retailers, financial services companies and other businesses have had their internal data systems breached and consumers’...more
The last installment in our series – “Coverage for Privacy Violations” - Part 5 of 5: Coverage For Privacy Violations: As we previously noted, recent SEC actions on the topic of cybersecurity indicates...more