Peter Taffae

• Trilateral Endorsement Bridges D&O Tail-Coverage Gaps For M&A Deals

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 20, 2011

  When Southwest Airlines closed its $1 billion-plus deal to buy AirTran two weeks ago, it did so knowing that language of a tail-coverage endorsement it bought for AirTran’s directors and officers would synch up with a worrisome provision of the merger indemnification agreement.

• Trilateral Endorsement Bridges D&O Tail-Coverage Gaps For M&A Deals

  By Susanne Sclafane  |  May 13, 2011

  The details of the fine print of a merger agreement—or a D&O liability insurance policy—can be daunting. But when Southwest Airlines closed its $1 billion-plus deal to buy AirTran two weeks ago, it did so knowing that language of a tail-coverage endorsement it bought for AirTran’s directors and officers would...

• EPL Insurers Still Avoid Wage-&-Hour Coverage Grants For Large Employers

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 21, 2010

  Fear of wage-and-hour claims is escalating among buyers and sellers of employment practices liability insurance, with sellers' fears limiting EPLI solutions for small employers--and resulting in none at all for the largest ones, market participants report.

• Are Medical Marijuana, Social Media The Next Big EPL Issues?

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 14, 2010

  While employers and employment practices liability insurers are currently preoccupied with fears over wage-and-hour claims,