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Insurance coverage for "Business Email Compromise" (BEC) scams is a hot issue being litigated by companies and their insurance providers in jurisdictions across the country.

The Yates Memo has many landscape-changing implications for corporate investigations, including the need for enhanced Upjohn warnings and the potential suppression of joint-defense agreements...

Earlier this month, the Department of Justice announced the indictment of 13 individuals associated with the hacker organization Anonymous for a widespread scheme to disrupt and shut down commercial and government websites.

Insurance regulators in Iowa and Virginia have adopted the NAIC's Model Rules regulating term and universal life insurance reserve financing.

The suit arose out of an arrangement where lenders would refer borrowers to (now-defunct) Triad Guaranty Insurance Company (Triad) to obtain private mortgage insurance.

The Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court and held that insurer Atlantic Specialty (as successor to One Beacon) had a duty to defend an employee's suit against his employer, a semiconductor manufacturer. In the underlying claim, the employee alleged exposure to chemicals at work caused birth defects in his son and sought $270M in damages.

A U.S. Justice Department memo calling for investigations of corporate malfeasance to put a greater emphasis on the conduct of individual board members raises broad and difficult questions.

On November 29, 2017, the California Supreme Court granted Montrose Chemical Corporation of California's Petition for Review of the California Court of Appeal's decision ...

Insurers in which a shareholder has a 10% or greater position should consider the latest guidance from state insurance regulators on variable interest entities (VIEs) and related parties.

On October 28, 2021, the Nevada Supreme Court joined 26 other state supreme courts, holding the insured has the burden to prove an exception to an exclusion.

New York's Second Department Appellate Division recently affirmed a trial court's decision granting a title insurer's motion for summary judgment, finding that the insureds' claim regarding a driveway...

On December 29, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul again vetoed the "Grieving Families Act" championed by the New York plaintiffs' bar. As discussed in prior Client Alerts...

The Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court and held that insurer Atlantic Specialty (as successor to One Beacon) had a duty to defend an employee’s suit against his employer, a semiconductor manufacturer.

A federal court in North Carolina held that an insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify when the policy's statutory violation exclusion precludes coverage for the underlying actions.

The insurance industry reacts to perceived risks, particularly where those perceived risks could, at least in theory, amount to significant financial loss for policyholders and/or insurers.

Northwestern National, the successor to Bellefonte Insurance Company, was placed into liquidation by a court in Wisconsin in May

Vacation of Subdivision Plats: boards of county commissioners have limited authority under Fla. Stat. sec. 177.101(3) to grant or deny platted property owner's request for vacation of plat...