All of us in advisory roles in the professional liability insurance space are constantly trying to identify emerging risks and trends that could affect the liability environment. Among the many forces and factors that could affect the risk landscape is demographic change. In the following guest post, Sarah Abrams, Head of Professional Liability Claims at Bowhead Specialty, takes a look at the demographic changes that lie ahead and discusses what the changes could mean for the risk environment for investment advisors. A version of this article previously was published on the PLUS Blog. I would like to thank Sarah for allowing me to publish her article as a guest post 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 Sarah’s article.Continue Reading Guest Post: Baby Boomers’ Impact on Financial Lines Insurers of Investment Advisers
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O.K., America, He Won the Election – Now What?
Many Americans were surprised by the outcome of the recent U.S. Presidential election. As unexpected as the results may have been, the fact is that on January 20, 2017, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Even among his supporters, there is a great deal of uncertainty about what a Trump presidency will actually mean. Many of the larger questions – foreign and diplomatic affairs, trade plans, military security, economic policy — are more appropriately addressed elsewhere. In this blog post, I lay out some of my thoughts about what Mr. Trump’s election may mean for the business litigation environment.
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Updates and Notes
More About Foreign Claimants, Foreign Companies: In earlier posts (here and here), I discussed issues arising as a result of foreign litigants suing foreign domiciled companies in securities class action lawsuits in U.S. courts. These issues were involved in a recent opinion in a case pending in the Southern District of New York.…
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Chinese Checkered: In an earlier post (here), I reviewed the recent checkered track record of Chinese companies listed on the U.S. securities exchanges, including in particular Chinese IPOs. A December 2007 Dewey & LeBoeuf article entitled “China’s Top Ten at the Corporate Governance Bottom” (here) sounds many of the same themes…
Cornerstone Releases Year-End 2007 Securities Litigation Report
As the latest of the year-end 2007 securities lawsuit reports (including my own, here), Cornerstone Research has released (here) its 2007 report on securities class action filings. Cornerstone’s January 3, 2008 press release describing the report can be found here. The numbers in the Cornerstone report differ from those in the…
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Options Backdating Developments: On December 21, 2007, McAfee announced (here) that it had reached a tentative settlement in the pending federal and state derivative lawsuits related to its options practices. The company said that it “has accrued $13.8 million” that amounts “related to expected payments pursuant to the tentative settlement.” The company’s press…
Yukos Shareholders Case Dismissed
In prior posts (refer here), I have discussed the jurisdictional issues and other questions arising when foreign domiciled companies are sued in securities lawsuits in U.S. courts. But the November 26, 2007 opinion (here) in the Yukos shareholders’ lawsuit raises some unique and uniquely interesting issues. And as discussed further below, other…
Web Notes: Backdating, Subprime, “F-cubed” Claimants, and More
Thanksgiving is nigh, but big things are still happening. The Apple options backdating derivative complaint has been dismissed, AIG has been sued in a subprime-related derivative lawsuit, the Non-U.S. claimants were excluded from the Royal Dutch Shell Class, a leading plaintiff’s lawyer had some interesting things to say about subprime lawsuits, and a disappointed busted…
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Foreign Institutional Investors Opt-In to U.S. Securities Litigation: In an earlier post (here), I discussed the involvement of foreign institutional investors in U.S.-based securities class actions, and the fact that courts are certifying classes including foreign investors who bought shares overseas, at least foreign investors from countries whose courts it is believed would…