The Standard Formula Podcast | Insurers in Difficulty: Staying Compliant Under Solvency II
Flood Basics still causing pain for some
The Standard Formula Podcast | Using an Internal Model to Calculate the Solvency Capital Requirement
The Standard Formula Podcast | Dissecting the Solvency Capital Requirement
Best Practices for Negotiating Manuscript Exclusions
AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights - Episode 1: A Primer for Providers When Insurance Companies Refuse to Pay
The Standard Formula Podcast | Solvency II Back to Basics: Technical Provisions
D&O Insurance Myths (Part 2)
Hinshaw Insurance Law TV | Bad Faith Law
The Standard Formula Podcast | Investment Rules for Insurers and Reinsurers
D&O Insurance Myths (Part 1)
The Standard Formula Podcast | Understanding the UK’s Matching Adjustment Regime
The Standard Formula Podcast | Solvency II Back to Basics: Third Country Branches and Cross-Border Provision of Services
Standard Formula Podcast | Reinsurance and Risk Transfer: Risk Mitigation Under the Solvency II Regime
Hinshaw Releases Second Edition of Duty to Defend: A Fifty-State Survey
Hinshaw Insurance Law TV – Transaction Insurance Solutions
The Standard Formula Podcast | Understanding Insurance Resolution Regimes
The Risk Roundtable: Demystifying the Intersection Between NJ Workers' Comp & Employment Practice Liability
GILTI Conscience Podcast | Tax Insurance 101
Insurance for the Cannabis Industry: Risks & Challenges
Bad faith is a continuum and must be considered from claims stage to trial. Insurance law veterans Thomas F. Segalla and Colleen M. Murphy will help you understand tools and potential solutions to the challenges faced by...more
Although discovery is costly, skipping it altogether can be far costlier. Indeed, in a recent case in the Second Circuit, an insurer’s decision to skip discovery likely led to it paying more than the insurer bargained for....more
Host Lynda A. Bennett, Chair of the Insurance Recovery practice at Lowenstein Sandler, welcomes back Freda L. Wolfson, Michael A. Kaplan, and Ruth Fong Zimmerman to continue their discussion on mass arbitration and...more
This presentation will offer insight and strategies against emerging insurance class action claims in California involving a variety of topics, including total loss auto claims, wildfire smoke and Covid-19 claims, and...more
On May 5, 2023, the California Court of Appeal for the Second District released a policyholder-friendly decision reiterating the importance of an insurer’s duty to defend. The case also is a reminder to policyholders to...more
Updated Social Inflation Survival Guide - Insurance professionals and counsel deal with it on a daily basis, plaintiffs' personal injury lawyers are driving and benefiting from it, consumers and policyholders are paying...more
This White Paper takes a comprehensive look at social inflation, identifying the causes, scope, and costs of social inflation. It also examines the risks and challenges insurers and their policyholders confront as a result...more
Where a liability carrier has assumed its insured’s defense under a reservation of rights, a variety of conflicts between those parties may arise when there are settlement discussions to resolve the underlying litigation....more
Back in 2017, we wrote about the impact that modern deposition management services can have on the leading impediments to insurance company profitability: unallocated loss adjustment expenses (ULAE), allocated loss adjustment...more
“Don’t worry, we will get it back in subrogation.” These words are often heard in the insurance claims world to soften the blow of a significant settlement or judgment. They might be said to support an account`s deteriorating...more
As in-house teams and their outside counsel providers move beyond the early risks and challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, new insights are forming around the next wave of concerns your company should be thinking...more
In Part I of this series, we discussed institutional bad faith and best practices for insurers to minimize the risk of these costly and intrusive lawsuits. In Part II, we will focus on cutting discovery off at the...more
It is an odd business relationship. As far as the customers go, they’re buying a service that they truly hope they will never need. For the companies, the ideal customer is the one they never meet, the one who pays their...more
Claim analysis and pre-trial preparation can sometimes become so focused on determining what the law is that lawyers lose sight of our ability to change that law. In some cases, that means discovering and arguing new legal...more
No one should know what an insurance policy covers better than the insurer itself. After all, the insurer wrote the policy, right? Yet there are times when coverage questions arise that even the drafter of the policy cannot...more
Defendant Golden Isles Reinsurance Company, Limited (“Golden Isles”) sought detailed information regarding individual claims Canal Insurance Company (“Canal”) submitted for reimbursement under the parties’ reinsurance...more
An insurance carrier has declined to defend a claim asserted against its insured, arguably without meeting its obligation to investigate the claim. For whatever reason — a change in personnel, loss of a file, or some other...more
Texas has finally enacted statutory reforms specifically designed to combat abusive insurance litigation. Enacted primarily in response to hailstorm lawsuits, the scope of the reforms are much broader. Effective September 1,...more
Almost 40 years ago the Arizona Supreme Court issued an opinion which has had a far-reaching impact on how insurance defense counsel report to the defending carrier....more
Robins Kaplan partner and co-chair of our retail industry practice group, Anne Lockner, recently published an InsideCounsel article about the distinction between being aggressive and being strategic in litigation and...more
Insurance coverage litigation today is often time consuming and expensive. Many cases include claims for “bad faith” damages, and some cases seek punitive damages. To support their allegations, litigants will usually seek a...more
Increasingly aggressive and adversarial examinations by state regulators can expose insurers to troubling evidentiary issues in subsequent individual and class action litigation. Plaintiffs’ counsel may seek to admit into...more