Forced to resign in 2005 as chairman and chief executive of insurance giant American International Group Inc. after almost 40 years at the helm, Maurice “Hank” Greenberg is now suing…
Testifying today at a Senate Budget Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the financial products division of major insurance company had been operated like a…
A federal appeals court based in New Orleans has revived a whistle-blower suit claiming several insurance companies tried to shift the burden of paying for Hurricane Katrina damages onto the…
After serving three months for a 1991 courtroom attack in which he held a gun to the head of a defense attorney representing Rockwell International Corp. in a worker’s compensation…
It was a standard legal representation up to the point of receiving a $4,000 settlement check in a homeowner’s insurance case, according to two clients of Shelbyville, Tenn., attorney Burt…
A prominent Oregon lawyer who helped his son litigate a federal insurance coverage case in California is entitled to attorney fees, a divided federal appeals court panel has ruled, even…
The ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates this morning passed a series of resolutions aimed at improving insurance protection for individuals and companies affected by natural disasters.
An insurance company that had refused to pay out on a $10 million life policy after actor Heath Ledger’s death from a drug overdose, contending that it might have been…
A bankruptcy judge has refused a request by Heller Ehrman to buy “tail” malpractice coverage to cover claims against the firm after its insurance expires April 15.
Most of the remaining lawyers in a New York intellectual property boutique that has been dwindling for the past two years are at least thinking about joining Locke Lord Bissell…
An insurance company fighting to avoid paying a claim in a fatal Houston 2007 office fire that could involve damages of $25 million is reportedly dropping its effort to apply…
In a move that could stretch the traditional definition of “pollution” to the breaking point, an insurer in Texas has asserted the pollution exclusion in its commercial liability policy in…
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