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NEW YORK--Attorneys who defend insurers said the absence of high-profile plaintiff lawyers Mel Weiss and David Bershad from the class-action scene hasn't cut the volume of such lawsuits, but the pair's

The emerging, seemingly popular notion that enterprise risk management may not be meeting expectations and may be on the way out is much contrived and more than a bit overblown. In fact, while ERM

PHILADELPHIA--A former Florida state senator predicted at an insurance conference here that if devastating losses deplete the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, the federal government will step in to

Class actions plummet, but emerging trends put claims experts under

Directors and officers insurance claims experts--who should be resting comfortably on news of plummeting securities class actions--are instead feeling increased pressure, squeezed by a dizzying array of

Class action securities settlements reached a record $18 billion in 2006, according to a report from Rockville, Md.-based Institutional Shareholder Services, a provider of corporate governance and pro

Ever since the Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein almost single-handedly brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon, they introduced into the political lexicon one of those

One of the liveliest exchanges on my new blog was prompted early on by my Sept. 19 filing of Associate Editor Mark Ruquet's NU column ...