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Life Sciences Insurance: Navigating Risk from Lab to IPO

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In our new webinar series, Risk Management for Your Life Sciences Company, we discuss the insurance and risk management milestones life science companies should prepare for as they move from early funding through clinical...more

Cranfill Sumner LLP

Slip, Trip, Splash: Summer Hazards on Commercial Property

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Summer brings sunshine, sandals—and a spike in slip-and-fall accidents. As crowds flock to pools, amusement parks, outdoor malls, and restaurants with patios, property owners and businesses need to stay vigilant....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Know Your Limits: Insights on Statutory Minimum Limits for Nursing Facilities

How much insurance does my organization need? This conundrum impacts policyholders from small businesses needing single policies to Fortune 500 companies placing complex, multimillion-dollar insurance towers. For owners and...more

Offit Kurman

Protecting Legacy: Privacy and Estate Planning Tips for Athletes

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Professional athletes face unique challenges when it comes to managing their personal, professional, and financial affairs. With significant public visibility, substantial income, a grueling training schedule, and a...more

Hogan Lovells

Key takeaways from our Geopolitical instability and evolving liability risks webinar

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On 7 May 2025, the Hogan Lovells insurance team, together with Howden, hosted a client webinar on geopolitical instability and evolving liability risk. The session also highlighted our new InCrowd hub, an online resource for...more

Warner Norcross + Judd

Batten Down the Hatches — Appropriate Insurance Protection for Your Vessel

It’s the time of year every boat owner looks forward to — getting their prized possession in the water and prepping it for the season ahead. But, aside from the cleaning and equipment checks, it is also important to regularly...more

Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires &...

Mitigating the Risk of a Commercial Motor Vehicle Claim

The numbers are frightening. In recent years, juries have routinely rendered outsized verdicts, a trend attributable in part to social inflation, public sentiment toward corporate defendants, and sophisticated litigation...more

Conn Kavanaugh

Will Your Homeowners Insurance Policy Provide Coverage for Everything That Could Go Wrong this Summer?

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Memorial Day is approaching and, with it, the unofficial start of summer. Many minds turn to thoughts of cookouts, inviting friends over to swim in backyard pools, and evenings spent playing basketball games on driveways....more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

The Ultimate Social Inflation Survival Guide

Insurance professionals, risk managers, and counsel deal with it on a daily basis, plaintiffs' personal injury lawyers are driving and benefiting from it, consumers and policyholders are paying for it, litigation funders are...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Cyber 101: Understand the Basics of Cyber Liability Insurance

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Cyber risk has grown demonstrably in frequency and severity in the past 10 years—and, in tandem, the cyber insurance policy has grown in breadth and complexity. This past year, a record number of organizations fell victim to...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Court Holds that Contract Exclusion in EPL Policy Does Not Preclude Duty to Defend When Some Allegations Extend Beyond Employment...

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Applying Indiana state law, the Indiana Court of Appeals has held that a breach of contract exclusion did not preclude a duty to defend under an employment practices liability policy because some of the underlying allegations...more

Hogan Lovells

UK pension trustee liability insurance: Key insights for trustees

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Pension trustee liability (PTL) insurance can be a crucial safeguard for trustees of UK pension schemes. This article explains: the cover typically provided; the importance of timely notifications; exclusions (what isn’t...more

Warner Norcross + Judd

Is Your Company’s Insurance Ready for AI Challenges?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is attracting widespread attention due to its significant potential to transform how businesses operate. However, new technology also brings the risk of potential harm due to unforeseen defects,...more

Alston & Bird

Insurance Insights for the Cold, Dark Winter Nights

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Welcome to the latest issue of Insurance Insights, a gathering of notable legal developments and trends relevant to the insurance industry. In this issue, fires alter the landscape of California insurance, an expert’s...more

Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

Understanding the Impact of AI: Artificial Intelligence, Construction Contracts, and Even More Complicated Disputes (Properties...

Artificial Intelligence will impact construction in ways that are both predictable and unexpected. Similar to technologies such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) and GPS, the use of AI hopes to make construction safer,...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

2024 D&O and Professional Liability Year in Review

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The past year once again saw a breadth of court decisions addressing a wide variety of directors and officers and professional liability insurance coverage issues. At various levels, state and federal courts across the...more

Miller Nash LLP

Enterprise Liability Insurer Has Duty to Defend Against a Vendor’s Claim, Even When Presented as an Invoice for “Usage Fees”

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In a win for policyholders, a federal court in Washington recently held that an insurer had a duty to defend a technology company against a vendor’s demand for damages it allegedly suffered when hackers accessed software...more

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Los Angeles wildfires’ far-reaching impact on the insurance industry

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The wildfires in Los Angeles continue to rage and have destroyed or damaged more than 12,000 structures, mostly personal residences. Southern Californians will be impacted by the devastating aftermath for years to come. There...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Insurance in the Know (Part 2): Settlement Offers Within Policy Limits Heighten Scrutiny on Insurers

Parties to a lawsuit may have vastly different perspectives on the validity and value of a claim, but as a matter of course, the issue of settlement will arise. Trial is an exceedingly expensive endeavor with an uncertain...more

K&L Gates LLP

Navigating the New Frontier: Insurance for Artificial Intelligence Risks

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On 27 December 2023, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft alleging copyright infringement in connection with OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT technology. This lawsuit is part of the first wave of...more

TransPerfect Legal

Smart Strategies For Legal Leaders: Insuring Life Sciences

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On May 10, 2023, I attended the Association for Corporate Counsel (ACC) live CLE event "2023 Life Sciences Conference: Future-Ready Resilience: Preparing to Face Challenges in the Uncertain Future." Eric Long, executive vice...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] Managing Risk in Construction Contracts & Projects – Eastern Canada Edition - February 23rd - 24th, Toronto, ON, Canada

Reconnect with your peers and key stakeholders from construction companies, public sector, and infrastructure! The Canadian Institute’s 7th Annual Conference on Managing Risk in Construction Contracts & Projects – Eastern...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Nonprofit Basics: Insurance Coverage for the New Nonprofit

Welcome to EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. Risk management for a nonprofit starts with good governance, effective management and appropriate policies for employment practices, conflicts of interest and...more

Pillsbury - Policyholder Pulse blog

Strengthening Corporate Officer Protection: Delaware’s Updated Corporate Exculpation Law and Its Impact on D&O Liability Insurance

As the preferred place of incorporation for most U.S. companies, Delaware has long been a leader in the development of statutory and common law on corporate governance. In keeping with this role, the Delaware legislature...more

Foster Swift Collins & Smith

Unique Liability Risks Involving Minors

This year, I was invited to speak at the American Youth Horse Council’s Virtual Symposium on the topic of “Unique Equine Liability Risks Involving Minors - What They Are and How to Protect Yourself.” This article summarizes...more

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