Risk Management

Safety and Health Audits Can Be Roadmap for Regulators

A safety audit can lead to improvements in operations and reduce liability risk, but it also creates evidence. In the […]

Insurers Look To Shift Liability, Costs, Of Natural Disasters

Class action suits filed by Farmers Insurance against 200 Chicago-area communities, alleging local governments have failed to properly prepare for […]

Addressing Third Party Compliance Risk

The risk that contractors will draw a company into a compliance issue has never been greater. Nathan Dreyfus and Guler […]

BP Appeals To Supreme Court In Oil Spill Damages Case

BP will appeal to the Supreme Court in a bid to keep from paying damages claims the company says are […]

Climate Change Insurance: A Product Whose Time Has Come

New kinds of risk management, in the form of insurance and securitization, as a plausible and necessary response.

Cyber-Coverage: Clarity or Confusion

With cyber breaches looming as a major concern for businesses, courts are split as to whether those damages are covered under traditional commercial general liability policies.

New York’s Court of Appeals Makes it Easier to Plead Whistleblower Law Claims

A decision by New York’s highest court may make it easier for whistleblower claims to reach the time-consuming and expensive discovery stage.

Providing Disaster Or Hardship Assistance To Employees

The Victims of Terrorism Tax Relief Act of 2001 enables employers to fund relief programs through charitable organizations aimed at […]

A Recent Folly by General Mills Exemplifies the Need to Consider the Business Consequences of All Legal Decisions

Without thoroughly vetting a legal decision, unintended business consequences could overshadow the intended benefits.

Trade Secrets and Economic Espionage

The proposed Defend Trade Secrets Act, a bipartisan effort to amend the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 to create the first federal private right-of-action for theft of trade secrets, may create a uniform standard for trade secret misappropriation, and facilitate access to federal courts.

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