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Avoiding the Next D&O Liability Disaster: FCPA Prosecutions
"Don't ask, don't tell" is not a winning strategy when it comes to compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
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The Entrepreneurs Report - Private Company D&O Insurance
Directors and Officers of private companies potentially face unlimited personal liability if they are sued.
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Stanford Law Review: FCPA Prosecutions: Liability Trend to Watch
When it comes to compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), multinational companies that adopt a "don't ask, don't tell" policy may come to regret their hands-off approach.
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What to Expect in D&O Pricing Trends
So far the credit debacle and backdating cases haven't had an immediate impact on the price of Directors & Officers (D&O) liability insurance.
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Can and Should you Indemnify your In-house Counsel?
When it comes to indemnification agreements for in-house counsel, an interesting question arises given the ethical duties of attorneys.
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Pandemic Influenza Risk Management for Employers
The attached report gives a comprehensive overview of pandemic influenza, and the effects it could have on the workforce and a company's bottom line.
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10b5-1 Trading Plans: The Next Stock Option Backdating Scandal?
Could abuses of 10b5-1 trading plans become the next corporate governance scandal?
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The Rest of the Story: Directors and Officers Coverage for Independents (Insurance Journal, May 2007)
The large out-of-pocket payments made by independent directors of publicly traded firms are enough to make any board member nervous, not to mention their insurance brokers.
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Six Ways to Protect Independent Directors (Boardroom Briefings: The D&O Issue, March 2007)
The second anniversary of the historic out-of-pocket payments by the independent directors of WorldCom and Enron is a good time to re-examine conventional wisdom.
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Terrorism Risk Insurance Extension Act of 2005 (TRIEA)
On Friday, December 16, 2005, House and Senate negotiators completed a deal to extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) through 2007. TRIA, passed by Congress in November 2002, created a three-year program in which the federal government would share in the cost of a foreign terrorist attack that produced at least $5 million in insured losses, was deemed a "certified act" by certain government officials, and met certain other requirements.View Insight -
The Options Scandal and the D&O Insurance Response
The director and officer liability insurance industry was as surprised as everyone else by the recent options backdating scandal. D&O carriers had never previously considered improper option accounting, and therefore few, if any, D&O policies contained explicit provisions addressing options backdating.View Insight -
Option Granting Best Practices: Avoiding the Sins of the Past
The recent options backdating scandal has been instructive on a number of fronts.