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Insurance Coverage & Recovery

Stephen A. Klein | Hollingsworth LLP

For two decades, courts have struggled with how to allocate long-tail environmental liabilities, asbestos claims and similar mass torts across the multiple years of insurance coverage triggered by such claims. The language of the standard commercial general liability (“CGL”) policy...

Finance

Rosemary Stewart | Hollingsworth LLP

Recent Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) lawsuits filed against directors and officers of failed financial institutions may shape corporate law for years to come. Although many people assume that the allegations in such FDIC lawsuits are unique to banking, this is...

Healthcare

Eric G. Lasker | Hollingsworth LLP

On January 8, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in Milward v. Acuity Specialty Prods. Grp., Inc., 639 F.3d 11 (1st Cir. 2011) and let stand a First Circuit holding admitting a plaintiff expert’s causation opinion resting solely on his self-proclaimed “weight of the...