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This oversight can focus, in part, on matters of staffing and on the use of an effective quality of care "dashboard" to help the board monitor quality metrics.

For the purposes of this part every director of a joint stock association is deemed to possess such knowledge of the affairs of his association as to enable him to determine whether...

The corporate culture of a company starts at the top, with the board of directors.

While CSR efforts have long been under discussion by many boards, 2018, in many respects, represented a turning point in how such efforts are being viewed by consumers,

Companies confer title of "Vice President" on a wide range of employees, from senior executives, in some cases, to line-level personnel, in others.

For the second episode of Founders Counsel, three dynamic and successful operators (Silicon Valley speak for executives) who became venture capitalists discuss how they broke...

Womble Bond Dickinson, CamberView Partners Collaborate on 2018 Corporate Governance Summit and Proxy Season Outlook katie.briel Feb 08 2018.

Jina Choi, litigation partner in Morrison & Foerster's Securities Litigation, Securities Enforcement, and Investigations + White Collar Defense Groups, is one of the many lawyers leading the way

Senate Bill 826, signed into law last year by former Governor Jerry Brown, requires that by the end of 2019, all publicly held foreign or domestic corporations

The Court enforced a six-month post-termination restrictive covenant, which prevented a director from soliciting anyone who had been a customer or client of Safety Net Security Limited at any time during the course of the director’s employment.

On September 29, 2010, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable, as widely expected, filed a petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeking review of the U.S. SEC's adoption on August 25, 2010 of new Rule 14a-11 and amendments to certain of its other proxy rules that collectively would have required most publicly traded companies, commencing in early 2011, to include in their proxy materials director nominees put forward by a shareholder or a g

The January 2012 failures of Tennessee Commerce Bank and BankEast, the first bank failures in the state in a decade, demonstrate that banks in Tennessee are not immune to the conditions that have caused the failure of over 420 banks in the United States since 2008.

On February 4, 2009, the U.S. Department of the Treasury ("Treasury") announced enhanced conditions on executive compensation for executives of financial institutions that (i) receive "exceptional financial recovery assistance" or (ii) participate in a "generally available capital access program" that Treasury announces in the future.

The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, applying federal bankruptcy law, has held that proceeds of a management and entity liability policy were not property of the entity debtor's bankruptcy estate.

Whether they are new executive leaders or longtime members of a corporate board, directors and officers should be considering two prongs of protection – a robust insurance program and a tailored...

The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, applying New York law, has held that one Insured cannot use consent and cooperation provisions in a D&O insurance policy to block coverage for another Insured's settlement in a bankruptcy adversary proceeding.

In VBC LLC v. Campbell Soup Co., 482 F.3d 624, (C.A.3., Jan, 18, 2007), the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that a company’s market capitalization several months after the spin-off from its parent provided stronger evidence of the company’s value at the time of incorporation than the estimates of the parties’ experts.

It is not unusual for a directors and officers liability policy to have an exclusion for professional services.