Court: Tribune Shareholder Suit Against Chicago Insurance Broker May Proceed April 18, 2016 By Stephanie K. Jones Finding an exclusion in a directors and officers (D&O) policy to be “ambiguous,” an Illinois appeals court has allowed to...
Tribune Shareholder Suit Against Chicago Insurance Broker OK’d to Proceed April 8, 2016 By Stephanie K. Jones Finding an exclusion in a directors and officers (D&O) policy to be “ambiguous,” an Illinois appeals court has allowed to...
Affirmative Insurance Ordered into Liquidation April 4, 2016 By Stephanie K. Jones Affirmative Insurance Company (Affirmative or AIC) was ordered into liquidation in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, on March...
Mentorship, Innovation Are Priorities for Global Insurance Accelerator April 4, 2016 By Stephanie K. Jones Just as Iowa, and Des Moines in particular, in the 1980s fostered a business climate that enabled insurance and financial...
Federal Appeals Court Sides with Lexington Insurance in Deductible Dispute April 4, 2016 By Stephanie K. Jones A federal appeals court in Louisiana, in an opinion published March 22, upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of...
Growth in Cyber Coverage Expected as Underwriting Evolves April 4, 2016 By Andrea Wells and Stephanie K. Jones With cyber insurance premiums expected to grow from around $2 billion in 2015 to an estimated $20 billion or more...
Ideas, Innovation and Mentorship Mix at Global Insurance Accelerator March 30, 2016 By Stephanie K. Jones Iowa, and Des Moines in particular, in the 1980s fostered a business climate that enabled insurance and financial institutions to...
Oklahoma’s Workers’ Comp Opt-Out, 180-Day Cutoff Ruled Unconstitutional March 21, 2016 By Stephanie K. Jones The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission has determined that the opt-out portion of the state’s 2013 workers’ compensation statute is unconstitutional....
Pop Warner Football Settles Wisconsin Head Injury Lawsuit March 21, 2016 By Stephanie K. Jones The national youth football organization, Pennsylvania-based Pop Warner, has settled a lawsuit filed in Wisconsin by the mother of a...
Oklahoma Court Says Workers’ Comp 180-Day Rule Is Unconstitutional March 15, 2016 By Stephanie K. Jones Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation system took a hit on March 1, 2016, when the state’s Supreme Court ruled as unconstitutional the...