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Alex Hopkins

In a guest post published on this site in October 2023 (here), Jane Njavro of Woodruff Sawyer took a look at the perennial issues surrounding the structure of D&O insurance for foreign subsidiaries of domestic U.S. companies. In the following guest post, Alex Hopkins, AVP & Counsel, Travelers Bond & Specialty Insurance, takes a further look at these issues and reviews the compliance, coverage, and claims management considerations involved. I would like to thank Alex 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 Alex’s article.Continue Reading Guest Post: Managing D&O Compliance, Coverage, and Claims Beyond U.S. Borders

gavelOver the last several days, Doug Greene of the Lane Powell law firm has been running a series of articles on his D&O Discourse blog asking the question “Who is Winning the Class Action War?” In the aggregate, the multi-part series provides an interesting commentary on the current state of securities class action litigation in the United States. The articles in the series are thought-provoking and provocative — apparently deliberately so — and I commend them to readers for the perspective they provide on the current state of play in securities litigation, from the outlook of an experienced defense-side securities class action litigator.

Based on my own varied experiences, I have my own perspective on some of the topics Greene discusses in his articles, which I have set out below. I want to emphasize at the outset that I am neither entirely disagreeing with nor entirely agreeing with Greene’s analysis and conclusions. I offer my thoughts here for whatever they may be worth, as part of the dialogue that Greene’s articles undoubtedly will provoke.
Continue Reading Commentary on “Winning the Securities Class Action War”