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Wrapping your reps: representation & warranty insurance in the M&A context

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2013

As M&A practitioners well know, the availability to a buyer of a remedy for a seller's breach of representations and warranties ("R&W") is a critical

Principal repayment amid insurance claims disputes new drama in insurance-linked securities

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 28 2012

With capital markets remaining very active in underwriting insurance risks, some recent developments involving repayment of insurance-linked securities

Feed-in tariff insurance

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 15 2012

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation is offering to insure projects against loss of income as a result of a government reducing or abrogating a feed-in tariff

Financial Guaranty Insurance Company ("FGIC") in New York rehabilitation proceeding

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 19 2012

On June 11, 2012, FGIC became the first New York domiciled financial guaranty insurer to be subject to a possible New York rehabilitation proceeding under Article 74 of the New York Insurance Laws as a result of the financial crisis of 2007-2008

Minority investments in U.S.. insurance companies navigating the boundaries of control

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 29 2012

In the last Corporate Practice NewsWire, we looked at the significance of “control” of a U.S. insurance company under state insurance laws

U.S. insurers and reinsurers could you be considered a "major swap participant"? SEC and CFTC final rules provide guidance

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2012

On April 27, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced final rules regarding swap-related definitions under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank") that could pose consequences for U.S

Settlements and exhaustion provisions: is the insured’s excess coverage at risk?

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 1 2012

It is not uncommon for a policyholder and its primary insurer to settle for less than the policy limit

Insurers accorded standing to challenge asbestos bankruptcy plan that potentially limits insurers’ reinsurance recoveries

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 1 2012

Asbestos settlement trusts are a major source of payment of asbestos claims in the United States, with over fifty such trusts instituted as of March, 2011

NY legislation would create new class of excess line carrier

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 26 2012

Legislation introduced this spring in the New York state legislature would establish a new type of New York-domiciled insurance entity, a "domestic excess line insurance company," which could potentially increase the availability of excess lines coverage within the state

Echoing its EU counterparts, NAIC enacts guidelines for self-assessments by insurers (but model law lags)

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 12 2012

Continuing its proliferation of new, post-financial crisis supervisory requirements, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners ("NAIC") at its Spring National Meeting in New Orleans on March 6 adopted a new Guidance Manual for so-called Own Risk and Solvency Assessments, or "ORSAs."