One of the most closely followed recent case developments in the D&O insurance arena is the ruling in the CNL Hotels & Resorts case that a Section 11 settlement did not represent covered loss under a D&O insurance policy. As I noted in a recent post (here), on August 18, 2008, the CNL
Section 11 settlements
Offering Underwriter’s Section 11 Settlement Held Covered “Loss”
By Kevin LaCroix on
Posted in D & O Insurance
In an earlier post (here), I discussed the March 14 , 2007 ruling (here) in the CNL Resorts case, in which the federal district court held that an issuing company’s settlement of a claim under Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933 did not constitute covered "loss" under the company’s…