Pamela Hans' practice focuses on insurance recovery, and corporate and commercial litigation. Below, she provides five tips for dealing with natural disasters and their impact on businesses.

Against the backdrop of large scale layoffs in the financial services industry and elsewhere, employees in New York soon will have another weapon at their disposal.

In the construction industry, owner-controlled insurance programs (OCIPs) and contractor-controlled insurance programs (CCIP), also referred to as "wrap-ups," commonly are used to...

The hospitality industry relies on insurance coverage to protect against a wide range of risks, from simple slip and falls to devastating hurricane damage.

Insurance policies often are acquired and then put in a drawer. Sometimes they are not even maintained anywhere. But these policies are valuable assets – and like most assets, they must be managed actively if their value is to be fully realized.

Opioid producers and distributors have turned to their insurance companies for relief from litigation, triggering a fierce fight.

In 2008, the S&P 500 dropped 41% and the Dow 36%. Market losses and Madoff’s schemes reverberated throughout the hedge fund industry, which experienced a net outflow of investor capital.

The economic news gets grimmer with each passing day. Unemployment is rising, salaries are frozen, dividends are reduced and the values of securities are depressed.

Atachbarian v. Norwegian Cruise Lines is a new federal securities fraud lawsuit filed in Florida federal court on March 31, 2020.

The filing requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act ("CTA"), enacted in 2021, are effective January 1, 2024. The CTA requires most small companies...

A lawsuit of any magnitude can be devastating for your business, whether it mani¬fests its hardship financially or otherwise.

President Obama Issues Initiative to Expand Overtime Pay On March 13, 2014, President Barack Obama requested that the Labor Department issue rules that greatly expand the number of workers who will be eligible to receive overtime pay.

When the cost of workers compensation programs rose in the 1980s and 1990s, employers began to explore alternatives to the traditional "guaranteed cost" or "retrospective premium" workers compensation policies.

Construction contracts often require one party to provide insurance for another party through the mechanism of “Additional Insured Coverage.”

The availability of extracontractual remedies for policyholders denied full and prompt payment of their claims is a crucial means of leveling the playing field between policyholders and the insurance industry.

Can an employer enjoin an employee from moving to a competitor by claiming that the confidential nature of his or her position will result in the "inevitable disclosure" of trade secrets to the competitor, without proof of any wrongdoing by the employee?

The New York Court of Appeals, which is the highest court in the state, has just issued a holding that may effectively make the courts in New York the collection agency against almost any debtor who does not have all its assets hidden under its mattress.

Many aspects of a food manufacturer's business are predictable or planned. And then there's food contamination and product recall – unanticipated events that keep a general counsel up at night.

In March 2022, President Joseph Biden signed into law H.R. 4445, the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 (the "Act") which, at its core, restricts employers...

In light of the emerging risks associated with climate change and related environmental liabilities, the proliferation of pollution exclusions in directors and officers (D&O) and errors and omissions (E&O) insurance policies is an alarming trend.