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
The United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, applying New Mexico law, has held that a prior acts exclusion in a directors and officers policy barred coverage for an investor lawsuit alleging a scheme to...more
The Delaware Superior Court has held that an underlying shareholder lawsuit and prior litigation alleging certain common facts did not arise out of Interrelated Wrongful Acts, and did not trigger either the Prior Notice or...more
Derivative suits are a topic of discussion that continues to challenge directors, officers, and insurers alike. The issue is particularly fraught for individual directors and officers because Delaware-incorporated companies...more
2024 was a standout year for the Directors and Officers (“D&O”) insurance market, as the industry navigated legislative upheaval and case law developments with remarkable resilience. Despite increasing mass-shareholder...more
The federal district court in Delaware recently ruled in Calamos Asset Management Inc. v. Travelers Casualty & Surety Company of America that stockholder suits alleging breaches of fiduciary duty in connection with a merger...more
Below is our Quarterly Corporate / M&A Decisions Update for decisions in Q4 2020. This update is designed to highlight selected important M&A, corporate, and commercial court decisions on a quarterly basis. Brief summaries of...more
On March 1, 2018, Judge Eric M. Davis of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware denied in part and granted in part the summary judgment motion brought by plaintiff-insurers, which provided directors and officers...more
Several high-profile lawsuits have been filed in recent years by shareholders seeking to hold corporate officers and directors liable for damage resulting from data security breaches. For example, directors and officers at...more
On June 22, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment in favor of National Union Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., in an action where the insured sought $10 million in coverage under a D&O policy. The...more