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Insurance Coverage & Recovery
When Standard Pollution Insurance Policies Aren’t Enough
Real estate development, construction, mining and energy development share a set of risks ranging from construction accidents, earth movement and collapse to environmental clean-up. While these risks may be anticipated in some measure, the fast-changing regulatory landscape exacerbates them....
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Four Stages Of Cyber Risk Management
In case anyone had not noticed that the severity of data breaches keeps reaching ever-more unnerving levels, a friendly reminder recently arrived in the form of federal indictments unsealed against a group of alleged cyber criminals. The alleged cyber gang’s hit list included the NASDAQ,...
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Ten Insurance Tips For Maximizing The Value Of Insurance Assets
Insurance policies often are acquired and then put in a drawer. Sometimes they are not even maintained anywhere. But these policies are valuable assets – and like most assets, they must be managed actively if their value is to be fully realized. Here are ten steps policyholders...
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Counsel's Role In Insurance Risk Management
Insurance policies are complex contracts, and pursuit of an insurance claim is often a high-stakes, conflict-ridden endeavor. Yet all too many companies entrust their assets and their very survival to insurance policies that are never seen by their attorneys, and pursue claims without the benefit...
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The Changing Landscape Of Liability For Natural Resource Damages
Many jurisdictions have announced that they plan to more actively pursue natural resource damages (“NRDs”) from potentially responsible parties (“PRPs”) deemed liable under CERCLA or Superfund. Recent developments in case law have changed the landscape when it comes to...
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Policy Issues Alert: New York State Wage Theft Prevention Act Annual Notice And Acknowledgement Of Employee Wage Rate Now Due
In the January and December 2011 Employment Law Insider Alerts, we informed employers about amendments to the New York State Labor Law that require employers to provide written notice to all newly hired employees of 1) rate of pay, 2) regular paydays and 3) the overtime rate of pay, if applicable...
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Insurance Coverage Lessons From Katrina: Insurance Companies Should Be Protecting Policyholders, Not Insurance Companies
Much of the Northeast was not fully prepared for Superstorm Sandy, and its effects will linger for some time. But one industry largely headquartered in the Northeast had been preparing for the storm for years: the insurance industry. Since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the insurance...
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