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Special Insurance Considerations for Government Contractors

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 11.11.15

C&M's Peter Eyre and Rachel Raphael authored "Special Insurance Coverage Issues for Gov't Contractors," recently published in Law360. In the article, the authors focus on some of the unique sources of liability confronting government contractors and outline five issues they should consider when evaluating whether they are appropriately insured: (1) The False Claims Act, (2) The Defense Base Act, (3) contractor default insurance and performance guarantees, (4) government furnished equipment, and (5) cybersecurity.


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