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Article 27-06-2022
Looking beyond cyber policies when faced with cyber risks
Cyber policies provide front-line action to aim to control the crisis and regain access. This can include the appointment of forensic IT experts, expert ransom negotiators, public relations experts and lawyers. Even though the actual cyber-attack may be successfully resolved, here we explore how a cyber-attack could potentially have impacts on D&O policies.
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Article 20-06-2022
The challenges for insurers in tackling climate change
Insurers must continue to support climate change research and forecasting, as well as commit to sharing it for the common good. Extinction Rebellion’s protests outside Lloyd’s headquarters in April 2022 made headline news, highlighting the real demands that the insurance industry is facing to tackle climate change.
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Article 26-05-2022
Greenwashing, climate change disclosures, and financial lines risks
With the increased attention to environmental social and governance (“ESG”) policies by regulators, investors and businesses, financial lines insurers are faced with the potential risks of exposure to investigation and litigation over climate-related disclosures. This article focuses on the question of whether the increased scrutiny climate-related disclosures has actually impacted the rate of greenwashing litigation filings, and how trends in greenwashing litigation may inform financial lines insurers’ assessment of these risks.
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Article 16-05-2022
Solvency II: UK Government consultation
On 28 April 2022, HM Treasury published its Solvency II consultation paper following proposals set out by Economic Secretary to the Treasury at the Association of British Insurers annual dinner on 21 February 2022. In this article, we look at the reforms contained in the consultation, and the impact this will have now that the UK has left the EU.
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Article 10-05-2022
Professions and Financial Lines Brief: latest decisions May 2022
In this briefing, we consider the latest court decisions raising issues for the Quincecare duty, contribution claims against counsel, non-disclosure of material facts, COVID-19 business interruption losses and aggregation of claims.
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Article 09-05-2022
The Queen’s Speech 2022: what to expect
The State Opening of Parliament will take place on 10 May 2022, with the Queen’s Speech setting out the Government’s agenda and economic plans for the next session. We take a look at what new laws could be announced and what measures from last year’s Queen’s Speech are confirmed as being carried over.
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Report 06-05-2022
Climate disclosures: a global risk driver in financial lines
With mandatory climate disclosures becoming law in the UK, effective from 6 April 2022, and the United States Securities & Exchange Commission announcing its long awaited climate disclosure rule on 21 March 2022, this report provides a snapshot of the approach towards climate disclosures in some of the jurisdictions in which Kennedys operates, before focusing on what this means for our policyholder and insurer clients in the financial lines arena.
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Article 21-04-2022
Intelligence: what does the future hold for ESG chief officers?
With the growing importance of environmental, social and governance issues, companies are starting to recruit people to senior executive positions to oversee their strategies. Pamela Kokoszka investigates if the role of chief ESG officer is here to stay, or – if like the role of chief digital officers recruited in the 2010s – will be absorbed elsewhere once ESG becomes more embedded within their employers.
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Article 29-03-2022
Another California court broadly interprets “arising from” in a contractual liability exclusion
The broad-form contractual liability exclusion is a key exclusion in private company directors and officers liability policies. On January 28, 2022, in TriPacific Capital Advisors, LLC v. Federal Insurance Company, the United States District Court for the Central District of California addressed the broad-form contractual liability exclusion. The court held that the exclusion applied to bar coverage for an entire lawsuit, notwithstanding the fact that the plaintiff alleged breaches of fiduciary duty. The decision has significant implications for D&O insurers and policyholders.
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Article 24-03-2022
SEC issues proposed regulations on climate-related disclosures and D&O implications
Across Europe and the United States there has been a growing focus on Environmental Social and Governance (“ESG”) regulations for corporations.