I’m getting ready to speak at an ABA-TIPS conference on the topic of business interruption insurance. Given the number of horrible tragedies we’ve been through in the past decade (prayers for all those affected by the earthquake in Japan), it’s certainly a timely subject.
To cut to the chase: Business interruption insurance is designed to…
This weekend, my family is taking me to see “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark” to celebrate the 12th anniversary of my 39th birthday. (The show is still in interminable previews.) Given how things have gone so far for Spidey, I’m hoping that one of the actors doesn’t land on my head. Anyway, over at…
There’s a disturbing article over at Bloomberg about the (pretty horrendous) games insurance companies play with respect to policies governed by ERISA. The ironic thing is that the ERISA statute was designed to protect workers. But the so-called “arbitrary and capricious” standard of review sets such a low bar that claims often get denied for reasons invented…