Nessim Mezrahi

In a recent post, I reviewed the number of first half 2023 securities class action lawsuit filings. In the following guest post, Nessim Mezrahi, co-founder and CEO at SAR LLC, analyses the potential financial exposure associated with the securities suit filings from the year’s first six months, as well as the implications of the filings for the D&O insurance industry. Nessim’s article first was published in the form of an SAR press release (here). I would like to thank Nessim for allowing me to publish his article on this site. I welcome guest post submissions from responsible authors on topics of interest to this site’s readers. Please contact me directly if you would like to submit a guest post. Here is Nessim’s article.Continue Reading Guest Post: 2023 Market Dynamics Testing D&O Rate Adequacy and Coverage Sufficiency

Nessim Mezrahi

In the following guest post, Nessim Mezrahi, takes a look at event analysis, price impact, and damages in securities class action lawsuits. Mezrahi is cofounder and CEO of SAR, a securities class action data analytics and software company.  A version of this article previously was published on Law 360. I would like to thank Nessim for allowing me to publish his article on this site. I welcome guest post submissions from responsible authors on topics of interest to this blog’s readers. Please contact me directly if you would like to submit a guest post. Here is Nessim’s article.
Continue Reading Assessing Securities Class Action Risk with Event Analysis

stock pricesIn its June 2014 opinion in the Halliburton case, the U.S. Supreme Court held that securities lawsuit defendants may introduce evidence at the class certification stage to try to show that the alleged misrepresentation on which the plaintiffs rely did not impact the defendant company’s share price. To show the absence of price impact, defendants