I have posted in the past about how everything eventually makes its way through the insurance industry, in terms of any types of new lawsuits or liability theories, and as this article makes clear, litigation over climate change will be no different. The suits are coming, and while their viability is yet to be determined
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Thoughts on Costs and Fees in 401(k) Plans
By Stephen Rosenberg on
Posted in 401(k) Plans, Industry News
In my last post, I mentioned a seminar I gave recently on insurance coverage issues and commented on one of the themes of my presentation. Another theme I emphasized in that talk was the fact that modern insurance coverage law is basically 20 years old, with its fountainhead being the development of the law of…
Corporate Insurance Programs: Thinking Critically Before You Buy
By Stephen Rosenberg on
Posted in Industry News
I gave a seminar recently to a group of in-house counsel on insurance coverage, and the theme of my talk was the need to go beyond – or at least look behind – standard insurance packages to instead tailor the insurance program to the specific needs and exposures of the particular company in question. For…
Randy Maniloff’s Top Ten Insurance Coverage Decisions for Dummies and the Rest of Us
Some bloggers blog their way to greatness, other bloggers have greatness thrust upon them. For some reason, that line popped into my head when Randy Maniloff’s always entertaining article on the top ten insurance coverage decisions of the past year appeared, like manna from heaven, in my in-box yesterday, providing one weary blogger…
Insurance and the World at Large
I am asked on occasion about the topics of this blog and their connection to my practice, more particularly how I ended up focusing the blog on its two primary subjects. For years, my litigation practice has focused primarily on three areas: intellectual property, ERISA and insurance coverage, in no particular order. A joke which…
A Break from LaRue: Anticipating Insurance Coverage Disputes Over Climate Change Exposures
Can’t do LaRue all the time, every post, although, frankly, the more one thinks about the Supreme Court’s three opinions, the more one can come up with to talk about. I will return to various issues raised by the opinion here and there, as time and interest allows. For now, though, I think I owe…
Niche Insurance and Government Investigations
By Stephen Rosenberg on
Posted in Coverage for Professional Services, Industry News
I had two different, perhaps more substantive things in line to talk about today, but I think I am going to push them back to later in the week, to instead pass along a highly entertaining article (at least to people who really like the ins and outs and oddities of the insurance industry) that…
Is It Just Plain Rational for Insurers to Pull Back from Coastal Markets?
Anyone interested in the topics of this blog is probably familiar with the media coverage of homeowners insurers raising rates and/or simply withdrawing from writing homeowners insurance in coastal regions, including not just in the traditional hurricane regions of the south but up through New England as well. Many stories are replete with sturm und…
Dickie Scruggs
By Stephen Rosenberg on
Posted in Industry News
The media is ablaze with discussion of this whole Dickie Scruggs indictment/bribery circus. I don’t expect I am going to have much to say about it – ever -on this blog; not to put on airs, but although insurance is in the title of this blog, I try to focus the subject matter on substantive…
Robert Kingsley, Insurance Industry Oracle
By Stephen Rosenberg on
Posted in Industry News, Interviews
In the first and so far last of our series of interviews with people of interest in the insurance and ERISA communities (I will do more at some point, but the interview post turns out to be the most difficult and time consuming to do well, which is probably why most people leave them to…