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Join Crowell's Michelle Linderman and Dj Wolff on December 14, 2022, 13:00 UTC for a BIMCO 15 + 15 webinar (15 min presentation, followed by a 15 min Q&A). They will talk about the price cap on Russian oil exports, whereby the G7, along with the European Union and Australia, have agreed to implement a price cap on Russian oil and oil products in order to reduce Russia’s revenues which are funding its war efforts in Ukraine while seeking to ensure energy security.  The price cap is designed to allow companies to provide shipment and insurance of Russian oil and oil products provided that the purchase price is below the agreed price cap, but how has it begun to work in practice, and what are the practical issues being experienced by the different actors in the supply chain?

ESG is a major challenge for insurers. All businesses are being called upon to reevaluate their products and purpose, including their role as employers of diverse, engaged workforces. Plaintiffs’ counsel have already begun to take advantage of changing regulatory and consumer expectations, and ESG-related claims are being pursued in the courts over a wide range of issues. Not only are insurers figuring out how to help others manage these risks, they’re also trying to determine the many ways ESG affects them. 

Please join us for a discussion to explore key issues in the business community as the war in Ukraine continues to reverberate through the global supply chain.

The American Law Institute Continuing Legal Education (ALI CLE) will host a course focused on how artificial intelligence (AI), including machine learning (ML) and robotics, has transformed society. When losses or liabilities arise from AI and ML operations, organizations may find themselves scrambling for the insurance coverages and other risk management tools needed to cover costs and to remediate damage. Insurers will also need guidance on both their own use of AI and the extent to which AI and ML losses of their policyholders may trigger coverage under widely-used policy language.

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations are being elevated in corporate, corporate stakeholder, and regulator discourse as never before. Many companies are experiencing ESG pressures for the first time, and indeed they may seem new to entire industries. However, ESG has become an essential institutional investor criteria and will increasingly need to be integrated into the supply and value chains of public and private corporations as financial and other regulators catch up.

With companies paying out millions of dollars in ransoms and recent statements by government officials making clear that ransomware attacks now take their place alongside supply chain attacks, cyber-theft, and disinformation campaigns as national security threats in the digital age, it’s no surprise that ransomware is all over the news. While there’s no question that these attacks pose a significant risk to global companies, developing a solid plan for preventing and responding to attacks before they happen – and following that plan when they do – isn’t always an easy task. Fortunately, Crowell & Moring is here to help.

Crowell & Moring partner, Laura Foggan, will be co-presenting at the American Bar Association's Science & Technology Law Section on the Internet of Things (IoT) on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. 

This panel of highly respected trial lawyers and federal and state court judges will provide insight and recommended practices for techniques, technology, and planning for coverage disputes in virtual court and litigation settings.

Please join the CPR Institute for a webinar entitled, Dispute Prevention in the Time of COVID-19: Exploring a Global Solution to Insurance for COVID-19, jointly presented by the CPR Institute’s Insurance and Environmental Committees. 

One of the most significant issues in insurance coverage litigation is the choice of law to be applied. The judicial resolution of many significant coverage issues often differs significantly from state to state. The determination of which state's law applies to the coverage dispute may be one of the most crucial determinations, and understanding how the forum court arrives at an answer on that application can mean the difference between winning and losing for clients. This panel features Counsel Stephanie Corrao along with other thought leaders in choice of law issues and strategies in insurance coverage disputes. 

This CLE webinar will present an overview of the significant coverage issues in the recently adopted American Law Institute (ALI) Restatement on Liability Insurance, which took almost a decade to finalize. Given the breadth and scope of the Restatement, the panel will devote significant attention to the most critical and practical issues, including when it would provide for a duty to defend, how it treats reservations of rights, and its approach to relationships between insurer, insured and defense counsel.

Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against those in the supply chain for legal and FDA-approved opioid pain medicine, including manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies, pain medicine practices and individual executives and medical professionals. These defendants have looked to a variety of liability insurance policies for coverage of the claims asserted against them. This webinar will explore, from the perspective of both insurer and insured, the nature of the claims being asserted, the lines of coverage that have been asked to respond, the main coverage disputes that have arisen and how courts have resolved these issues.

The ALI Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance project recently received approval of ALI membership and an official text will be prepared for publication. Learn what this means in terms of the current status of the project. Find out when insurers and those that represent them should expect to see citations to the Restatement. Attend this timely program to understand what some of the key problem areas are in the final project and what insurers should be doing in response to the Restatement now.

This One-Hour Briefing provides all the basics an insurance claim handler, claim manager or lawyer needs to be familiar with and conversant in general liability insurance coverage matters, including bodily injury and property damage (Coverage A) and personal and advertising injury (Coverage B) matters.

The In-house Lawyer’s Role in Business Innovation Join us for the first webinar of our upcoming Digital Transformation information series.

This CLE webinar will discuss recovery for indemnity and defense costs under business insurance policies for class action claims. The program will discuss how policyholders should scrutinize policies for potential coverage, and at a minimum for part of the claims to trigger a defense. The program will also discuss the insurer’s perspective on coverage and arguments to deny or limit coverage.

Please click here for a copy of the presentation.