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Golden Eagle Sues CDI for $260 Million; CDI Hopes Matter Will Be Resolved
Nov 15 2001 // San Diego-based Golden Eagle Insurance Corp. has sued the California insurance commissioner for $260 million. The suit is in relation to the old Golden Eagle Insurance Co., which was seized in 1997 and sold off to the...
Family of Former Basketball Player Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Nov 13 2001 // The family of basketball player Daniel Lawson, Jr., who was killed in the Oklahoma State University plane crash on Jan. 27, 2001, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the plane’s owner and pilot’s estate in...
D&O Liability: Executives Bear the Weight of Success or Failure
Nov 12 2001 // Directors and Officers liability, commonly known as D&O, is a complicated type of risk. While it covers corporate activities, a corporation is a legal person, as are the directors and officers...
Employers Realize Proper EPL Coverage is Part of Successful Business Equation
Nov 12 2001 // Employers and employees have more to think about than production, hours and paychecks these days. The Employment Practices Liability scene continues to draw major attention both in and outside of the courtrooms. Carrie...
Ohio Director Sues New York-Based Company
Nov 8 2001 // Ohio Director of Insurance Lee Covington, acting in his capacity as liquidator of property and casualty insurer Credit General Insurance Company (CGIC), sued New York-based AmTrust Financial Group and its subsidiaries...
California Supreme Court Rules Companies Can Be Sued
Nov 7 2001 // The California Supreme Court ruled on Nov. 5 that insurance companies may be sued in their failure to cover damage that their adjusters mistakenly overlooked, even if the legal deadlines for such lawsuits have...
Silverstein Sues ACE, XL to Keep WTC Claims
Nov 6 2001 // Silverstein Properties, the master lease holder on the World Trade Center, has filed suit in Federal District Court against Bermuda-based ACE Ltd. and XL Capital in an effort to prevent their plans to begin arbitration...
Ohio Director Sues Chicago-Based Company
Nov 5 2001 // Ohio Director of Insurance Lee Covington, acting in his capacity as liquidator of property and casualty insurer Credit General Insurance Company, sued Chicago-based Grant Thornton LLP, certified public accounts and auditor...
Employers Realize Proper EPL Coverage is Part of Successful Business Equation
Nov 5 2001 // Employers and employees have more to think about than production, hours and paychecks these days. The Employment Practices Liability scene continues to draw major attention both in and outside of the courtrooms. Carrie...
What About Personal Responsibility’
Nov 5 2001 // We live in a litigious society. As the authors of the three features on professional liability appearing in this issue of IJ Texas point out, almost anything is fodder for a lawsuit and no one, or company, is...
D&O Liability Insurance: A Complicated Risk
Nov 5 2001 // Directors and Officers liability, commonly known as D&O, is a complicated type of risk. While it covers corporate activities, a corporation is a legal person, as are the directors and officers...
Ohio Insurance Director Sues Credit General Auditor
Nov 2 2001 // Lee Covington, Ohio Director of Insurance and liquidator of property and casualty insurer Credit General Insurance Company, sued Chicago-based Grant Thornton LLP, Credit General’s auditor. The suit alleges that Grant...
Farmers Settles Ohio Discrimination Suit for
Oct 25 2001 // Farmers Insurance agreed to pay $4.3 million to settle an Ohio lawsuit charging the company with discrimination against homeowners in minority neighborhoods in issuing homeowners insurance policies. With the settlement,...
Chubb Introduces Comprehensive EPL Loss Prevention Program
Sep 28 2001 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies is rolling out a comprehensive loss prevention program that will help more than 100,000 customers protect themselves against employment-related lawsuits. The program offers policies...
South Dakota Supreme Court Rejects Third-Party Bad Faith Lawsuits
Sep 24 2001 // The insurance industry applauded the South Dakota Supreme Court for its recent review and rejection of a third-party bad faith lawsuit against an insurance company. “This is a major victory for insurers and their...
Hyundai Securities Shareholders Sue to Block Sale to AIG
Sep 18 2001 // In another challenge to its acquisition plans, minority shareholders in Hyundai Securities filed suit in a South Korean court on Monday in an effort to block the sale of 35 percent of the company and two financial...
Nonprofits Especially Need Protection Against D&O Liability Risks
Sep 17 2001 // Although Directors’ and Officers’ liability insurance (D&O) often is associated with large for-profit companies, they are not the only ones that need it. Many people hold the common misperception that...
Conseco Sues Six DO Insurers Over Litigation Coverage
Sep 11 2001 // Conseco Inc. is suing six of its own insurers, claiming they are attempting to dodge legitimate potential claims on directors and officers policies bought by the Indianapolis-based insurer. In its annual 10-Q filing with...
Wash. Supreme Court Upholds Time Limit on Construction Defect Lawsuits
Sep 10 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) reported that insurers and builders are applauding a unanimous decision by the Washington Supreme Court to reaffirm the statute of repose barring construction defect lawsuits six...
Fear of the Unknown–The Mold Issue Raises More Questions Than Answers (Part II) By Catherine Tapia
Sep 10 2001 // By Catherine Tapia This is the second installation of a two-part series dealing with the rising issue of toxic mold claims, which continues its exploration of specific mold-related lawsuits in California: determining...
