Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog

Join our Hunton Labor and Employment team as they discuss how to plan and defend drug testing policies in the current legal landscape. 

In today’s unpredictable world, event cancellation insurance is essential for event organizers, artists and venues. With risks ranging from natural disasters and terrorism to health crises like COVID-19, this insurance protects against financial losses when events are disrupted. But with this coverage comes a web of legal complexities.

Please join Hunton Andrews Kurth’s workplace safety attorneys for a complimentary webinar on Tuesday, October 29.  Our team will provide a complimentary CLE, A Year in Occupational Safety and Health Law - Workplace Violence, Heat, Marijuana, HazCom and More.

A software company—Zywave, Inc. (“Zywave”)—recently filed a lawsuit in California federal court that may provide rare insight into how courts will resolve representations and warranties (“R&W”) insurance coverage disputes. Zywave purchased a buyer-side R&W policy in connection with its acquisition of an insurance product-distribution software company. Zywave alleged that, post-close, it learned that the seller had knowledge of “serious material performance issues with certain customers that it failed to disclose,” amounting to breaches of various sections of the acquisition agreement. The software company further alleged that if the seller had disclosed the performance issues, the software company would have either walked away from the transaction or paid a lower purchase price.