WOOPS 2008

Event | 04.29.08, 12:00 AM UTC - 12:00 AM UTC

This year Crowell & Moring LLP’s Ounce of Prevention Seminar, or OOPS, and its sister-conference, WOOPS on the West coast, will focus on navigating treacherous shoals in shifting government markets, while staying in bounds and outside of the enforcement spotlight. Join us as government contracts law practitioners and government decision makers share their perspectives on the latest industry topics such as:


• New laws, regulations and federal initiatives
• Ethics, Compliance and Integrity
• Cost recovery
• Homeland Security
• False claims
• GSA/Commercial Item Contracting
• Bid Protests
• State and local contracting
• Iraq Contracting and Selling overseas

For more information, please visit these areas: Government Contracts

Insights

Event | 02.20.25

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.