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Article 06/20/2022
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.
Article 05/26/2022
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.
Article 05/16/2022
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.
Article 05/10/2022
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.
Article 05/09/2022
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.
Report 05/06/2022
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.
Article 04/21/2022
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.
Article 03/29/2022
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.
Article 03/24/2022
Across Europe and the United States there has been a growing focus on Environmental Social and Governance (“ESG”) regulations for corporations.
Report 02/28/2022
Following the New Zealand Court of Appeal decision of Smith v Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited [2021], Kennedys experts in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom and United States provide a cross-jurisdictional review of the risk of this potential new tort also emerging in their respective countries.
