Recent economic crises and political upheavals have intensified the risks connected with engaging in international trade and investment.

The founders of tech startups believe that there is no need to engage in estate planning, due to their age, the low present valuation of their business venture, or limited liquidity.

Weather experts reported recently that fewer hurricanes are likely to develop this season.

By now, most directors and officers are acutely aware of the exponential growth of cyberrisks. They may be less aware that the very ubiquity and familiarity of cyberattacks has exposed them to greater personal risk than they faced when such attacks were more of a novelty. Insurance coverage for such known threats, and the scrutiny of directors.

The duty to cooperate means keeping and turning over pertinent documents and doing so as soon as possible.

In Pachter v. Bernard Hodes Group, Inc., the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in New York, addressed whether executives are entitled to protections afforded to employees under Article 6 of the New York Labor Law and when, in the absence of a written agreement, commissions are earned and therefore considered wages under the Labor Law.

Regardless of the economic cycle, corporate transactions are always taking place, whether through mergers, acquisitions, going private, or, in a recent trend, marriages between financial institutions arranged by the Treasury and the Federal Reserve.

In an era where so much third party data is entrusted to policyholders (financial information, customer data, personal information and health records), insurance coverage against data theft is vital.

As lenders discover losses from employee dishonesty, forgery and other fidelity risks in the current economic downturn, insurance companies have attempted to avoid coverage by arguing that the losses are attributable to declining collateral values rather than the fraud that initially induced lending.

When a person becomes seriously incapac-itated, there is often a need for someone to assist them in their personal and/or economic affairs.

Employers are understandably concerned about the possible spread of the Ebola virus in the United States.

Licensing agreements arm boards with the ability to cushion themselves against disaster arising from construction next door.

Demand for large sized apartments has exploded over the past decade, fueled both by a migration of suburban fami¬lies to the city and by yet another baby boom.

While the brunt of the suffering from the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami has been in Japan, the economic aftershocks will be global, and many U.S. companies will suffer serious economic consequences.

Governance issues should be factored into the initial decision to establish a captive and should be revisited systematically and periodically once the decision to go ahead is made.

Concussions have become a substantial concern in multiple industries: medical

For the last couple of decades, arbitration has been heralded as a cheaper, more efficient and more expedient way to resolve commercial disputes.

Your property insurance policy covers the cost "to repair or replace damaged property with property of like kind and quality."

More than half of all American adults don't have wills or revocable trusts setting forth their instructions for how their assets are to be distributed after they die.

As technological innovation continues to unfold at a torrid clip, the challenges of protecting against theft and fraud have never been greater. Commercial shipping, for example, faces a new and daunting set of technological exposures that can take the form of hacking of a vessel's navigational systems, email-induced surrenders of cargo, and the computer-enabled falsification of shipping documents, just to name a few.