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Is your insurance company paying to defend FACTA lawsuits?

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 13 2007

Plaintiffs lawyers have filed hundreds of nationwide class action lawsuits against restaurants, retailers and other merchants for alleged improper printing of expiration dates on credit card receipts

Florida securities regulator proposes uniform definition of "branch office"

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 12 2007

Almost all financial service providers in North America are licensed to sell securities and insurance products to residents of Florida

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 22 2010

Broken or not it's being fixed

Trade associations urge Senate to consider systemic risk review

  • Alston & Bird LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • February 19 2010

Today, a consortium of interested trade associations, including the American Bankers Association, the Financial Services Roundtable and the Mortgage Bankers Association, sent a letter to Senators Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT) and Richard C. Shelby (R-AL), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, respectively, urging the Committee to address potential systemic risks posed by accounting standards in the consideration of the Senate’s comprehensive financial industry reform legislation

Liability considerations for officers and directors of failed FDIC-insured institutions

  • Venable LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • August 12 2009

In light of the possibility that several hundred FDIC-insured banks and thrifts may fail in the next two- to three-year period, many clients and friends of the firm have requested a summary of the legal concerns that arise for officers and directors immediately following the seizure of an institution by the FDIC, as well as steps that may be taken to be better prepared before a failure

Resurrecting corporate America after the failure of governance

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 10 2008

AIG, Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Bros. et al. are the result of a fundamental flaw in governance of corporate America: failure to provide independent oversight of management in the governance of these organizations

Barney Frank introduces bill to prohibit insurance policies against compensation clawbacks at financial institutions

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 1 2012

Ever since I blogged on the availability of insurance to protect executives from compensation clawbacks, reporters, seminar attendees and others ask me for more information on these policies

Washington appellate court finds no d&o coverage where executive officer acted in personal, not official capacity

  • Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 11 2012

A Washington appellate court held that a directors and officers policy that provides coverage to executives for acts performed in their official capacity does not insure against losses stemming from an officer’s guaranty of a bank loan made to his company

Supreme Court surprises again: RESPA standing case dismissed by Supreme Court as improvidently granted

  • Dykema Gossett PLLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 2 2012

The June 28, 2012 ruling on the Affordable Care Act was not the only surprise that came out of the Supreme Court last week

Insured versus Insured exclusion held inapplicable to FDIC’s failed bank suit

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • Puerto Rico, USA
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  • November 1 2012

A Puerto Rico federal district court has declined to apply a D&O policy’s Insured versus Insured exclusion to a suit brought by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) against former directors and officers of a failed bank