Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Loss portfolio transfers are reinsurance contracts where a self-insured organization or an insurer typically cedes legacy liabilities to a reinsurer. The reinsurer assumes and accepts the ceding ...
Analysis Proving Causation in Toxic Tort Cases Complex Litigation columnist Michael Hoenig writes: Somewhat unobtrusively, New York's highest court recently issued a decision in an asbestos case that ...
Americans have access to one of the finest and most robust judicial systems in the world. And, while justice is not perfectly served, it remains the goal toward which we still aim. Historically, the U ...
Carl and May Hamberger lived in Gilford, N.H. (pop. 2,000), in a rented house belonging to Chicken Farmer Clifford C. Eastman. When they found their bedroom bugged with what they claim was a listening ...
Mass tort actions are large and complicated matters generally involving a wide cross section of plaintiffs with varying degrees of harm caused by a product or substance. Cases involving serious ...
The first two parts of this series on mass tort tips discussed the best practices for intake and how to develop an inventory of mass tort cases. Now that all that hard work has paid off, and it’s time ...
A Chapter 11 proceeding can allow a company facing mass tort liability to resolve claims efficiently and comprehensively, but it involves unique considerations and challenges. Chapter 11 allows for ...
Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...