Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog

Captive insurers are formed with careful attention to domicile to select for favorable tax, regulatory, and operational climate. But as a recent decision reminds us, jurisdictional exposure doesn’t end with the state or country of incorporation. Captive insurers, like any other entity, can find themselves subject to litigation in jurisdictions where their conduct has an effect. Understanding this reach is essential to managing risk from an insurance and corporate governance perspective.

We recently posted an article on Hunton’s Insurance Recovery Blog about a new Illinois Appellate Court decision that offers concrete direction for retail policyholders evaluating their exposure under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).  

Benchmark Litigation has named insurance coverage partners Andrea DeField and Geoffrey Fehling to the publication’s 40 & Under List. Benchmark Litigation is the definitive guide to America’s leading litigation firms and attorneys. The 40 & Under List honors the most notable up-and-coming litigation attorneys in the United States. Those named to the list have proven their eligibility as individuals at the partner level of their respective firms who are 40 years of age or younger.

If your company has been impacted by today’s network outage issues, know that insurance may be able to help. Many, but not all, cyber and technology errors and omissions (“Tech E&O”) insurance policies include broad dependent business interruption coverage for losses caused by system failures of a company or vendor on which you rely to operate your business.