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Improve Results & Reduce Your Outside Counsel Costs: What Every Inside Counsel Should Know About Alternative Fee Arrangements

Event | 03.16.11, 12:00 AM UTC - 12:00 AM UTC

This event series is sponsored by the Association of Corporate Counsel and hosted by Crowell & Moring.

Please join us for this informative session focused on aligning your outside counsel and your business goals using the incentives provided by alternative fee arrangements.

Presented in a case study format by Crowell & Moring attorneys and in-house counsel with experience in using all types of value based billing measures in a variety of legal settings, you will hear real life examples of how AFAs result in win-win scenarios for the law firm and the company.

Dan Sasse, Jason Murray, Michael Cypers and Kevin Mayer will be presenting.

This event will be held at the following locations and times:

  • 7:30am-9:15am: Paragon Biomedical, 9685 Research Drive, Irvine
  • 11:30am-1:15pm: Fandango, 12200 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 400, Los Angeles
  • 11:30am-1:15pm: ACCA-SoCal, 777 South Figueroa Street, Suite 2400, Los Angeles
  • 11:30am-1:15pm: Toyota Motor Sales, 19200 Gramercy Place, TAC Room TC 1 or 2, Torrance

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Has the Buss Stopped? Recoupment Today

Has the Buss Stopped? Recoupment Today: In 1997, the California Supreme Court decided Buss v. Superior Court. In Buss, the court concluded that a liability insurer that defended a mixed action could seek reimbursement from the insured for the defense costs associated with the claims that were not even potentially covered. Since then, numerous courts have held that insurers are entitled to recoup their defense costs associated with uncovered claims or causes of action. On the other hand, a significant number of courts have rejected insurers’ right to recoupment, at least in the absence of a policy provision granting the insurer that right. Some commentators have even suggested that the current judicial trend might be away from permitting insurers to recoup their defense costs. Is that correct? Has the Buss stopped? This panel of coverage experts will analyze insurers’ claimed right to recoupment today, and offer their perspectives on what the law on recoupment should perhaps be and might be in the future.

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