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A Foreign Experience: Arbitrating Insurance Coverage Disputes in London
Many insurance policies now include arbitration provisions providing that disputes be arbitrated in London under the substantive law of New York. To policyholders, the “deck” in an international insurance arbitration appears to be stacked in favor of the insurance company, if only because the insurance company ' a repeat player in London arbitrations ' knows the results of its past arbitrations and the policyholder (and its counsel) likely does not. However, with careful strategy and preparation, a policyholder can prevail even in a “foreign experience” in international insurance arbitration.
The policy form that began the London arbitration trend is the “Bermuda form” sold by companies like ACE Insurance Company, Ltd., and XL Insurance Company, Ltd. Except for a brief time when some Bermuda insurance policies required arbitration in Bermuda, the Bermuda form, since its inception in the mid-1980s, has included a London arbitration provision. Although, for many years, most disputes arising under the Bermuda form were settled, insurance disputes arising under the Bermuda form increasingly, in my experience, are arbitrated, either because Bermuda insurers, like insurers of yore, decide to litigate disputes or because the policyholder is unable to obtain redress (or even a response) otherwise.
Why So Many Great Lawyers Stink at Business Development and What Law Firms Are Doing About It
Why is it that those who are best skilled at advocating for others are ill-equipped at advocating for their own skills and what to do about it?
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.
Protecting Innovation in the Cyber World from Patent Trolls
With trillions of dollars to keep watch over, the last thing we need is the distraction of costly litigation brought on by patent assertion entities (PAEs or "patent trolls"), companies that don't make any products but instead seek royalties by asserting their patents against those who do make products.