A new trial court decision from Illinois holds that counsel for a reinsurance pool in a lawsuit brought by the pool against a pool member is obligated to produce documents and information within the possession of each of the approximately 500 pool memb ...

In TIG v. Aon, the Fifth Circuit applied Texas law to dismiss a seemingly viable claim on statute of limitations grounds, even though the plaintiff there may not have even known of its claim before the limitations period had run. The Fifth Circuit&rsqu ...

This commentary initially notes that custom and usage is defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as a “practice or method of dealing having such regularity of observance in place, vocation or trade as to justify the expectation that it will be obs ...

The mid-1980s were the golden age of insurance insolvency. The current sub-prime meltdown and the agonies at mono-line insurers MBIA and Ambac scare a lot of people ...