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Risk Awareness and Mitigation in Disaster Recovery: After a Catastrophe

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Natural disasters, while undoubtedly disruptive and damaging, can serve as powerful catalysts for organizational transformation if approached with foresight and strategic intent. As we’ve explored, successful post-disaster...more

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Cyber Security & Business Interruption: Foundations for Prevention and Mitigation

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The modern security ecosystem is diverse and ever-changing, a place where cyber risk is top of mind for leaders at all levels, and threats to information / data security and privacy evolve at the speed of the technical...more

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Emerging Middle Market Cyber-Attack Vectors: Are You at Risk?

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The concept of “security by obscurity” is officially outdated. In recent years, cyber-attacks have become increasingly sophisticated, destructive, and indiscriminate. In today’s landscape, cyber threats can come from internal...more

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Insurance Claims & Fraud Investigations: Where Forensic Accountants Bring Value

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Forensic accountants are independent, highly specialized accountants with strict confidentiality policies who are involved in investigating financial information to assist attorneys, insurance companies, businesses,...more

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The Role of Forensic Accountants in Detecting Fraud in Business Interruption Claims

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Business interruption claims are generally closely scrutinized by insurance carriers and can range from thousands of dollars to claims exceeding $100 million. Insurance carriers often seek the assistance of either internal or...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

COVID-19 Litigation: Clear Sailing or Calm Before the Storm?

The last time we looked at litigation arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, it appeared that businesses and their insurers faced a grave risk of being buried by COVID-related lawsuits. So far, however, the worst fears within...more

Shutts & Bowen LLP

Business Continuity Planning Part 2: Vulnerability Risk Assessment

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As discussed in “Business Continuity Planning Part 1: Managing Risk by Developing a Business Continuity Plan,” it is often the case that the difference between a failing business and company of great value, surviving for...more

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Reassessing Your Global Compliance Risk Profile

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The unprecedented challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting government lockdowns could strain even the most robust compliance programs. Companies have been appropriately focused on business preservation during...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Current Bank Capital and Enforcement Action Considerations

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Because of the devastating effect that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the entire U.S. economy, the federal Bank Regulators have warned of the possibility that small, medium and large banks may soon be forced to recognize...more

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The Pandemic Lessons: The Future Of ESG And How It Will Define Business Success

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The rapidly increasing importance of a company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance to its business value, has been a critical trend leading into 2020. This trend was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic,...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Three Key Takeaways From Our Restructuring Strategies in Light of COVID-19 Webinar

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1. Revisit your credit agreement to refresh your understanding of financial covenant requirements that may be at issue or subject to potential default in light of resulting business interruption and challenges. If there are...more

The Volkov Law Group

Are Compliance Officers “Essential”?

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In these challenging times, when governments around the world are asking all “non-essential” workers to stay home, and companies are struggling with business interruptions and difficult decisions regarding pay-cuts, layoffs...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

SEC Guidance on COVID-19 Disclosures for Healthcare Providers

On March 25, 2020, the Division of Corporate Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission published guidance on disclosure obligations of companies with respect to COVID-19 and related disruptions. The SEC recognizes...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Navigating the Coronavirus Crisis for Compliance Professionals: Part 2 – Specific Tactics

The coming weeks and months will be incredibly challenging for all as COVID-19 does not respect national boundaries, races, religions or another other construct people have created to differentiate themselves from each...more

Brooks Pierce

Potential Insurance Coverage For COVID-19 Losses

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As companies navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, they should take stock of existing insurance policies that may provide coverage for: • damages and losses suffered by the company, or • potential liability of the company... ...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Critical Checklists for Business Owners and Management to Mitigate Risk of Financial Distress During the COVID-19 Crisis

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been wreaking havoc on industries and supply chains worldwide for weeks, and it appears that the situation will become worse before it gets better. National and international travel restrictions have...more

McDermott Will & Emery

COVID-19 – Contingency Planning Checklist for Private Equity Portfolio Companies

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Following the wider outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) around the world, radical—and sometimes controversial—actions have been and are further expected to be taken by national, federal and local governments and...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

New York Department of Financial Services issues guidance and request for preparedness plans related to COVID-19 due by April 9,...

On March 10, 2020, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued a letter to all DFS-regulated insurance entities providing guidance and requesting assurance that all regulated entities have preparedness plans to...more

Payne & Fears

Is Your Business Insured for the Coronavirus?

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How bad will the pandemic get? How much will it spread in the United States? Will we develop a vaccine in time to do any good? As insurance lawyers, we have no idea. But we can help you figure out whether your business is...more

Hogan Lovells

Operational resilience: a new area of regulation you need to think about now

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Several high profile systems failures resulting in customers being unable to access their finances and an ever-increasing reliance on outsourcing key activities to group entities or third parties have unsurprisingly caught...more

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NHS medicine and device suppliers urged to carry out supply chain coronavirus risk assessment

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At the end of last week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) upgraded the global risk assessment of the novel coronavirus to "very high." This comes shortly after the United Kingdom saw its first fatality as a result of...more

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The Paris Agreement and Business Interruption Coverage

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“In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." — Benjamin Franklin On Dec. 12, 2015, in LeBourget, France, world leaders announced an agreement on a climate change accord which they touted as...more

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Cybersecurity Update - July 2015

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Employees are the front line of your information security defense. While technological protections are essential (for example, anti- virus software, firewalls, spam filters, etc.), none are as effective as a vigilant end...more

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Sizing Up Cyber Risks after the Sony Breach

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Sony’s most recent data breach underscores the difficulties in underwriting and insuring cyber risk. Sony incurred losses that were surprising in both their scope and type. The company already is a defendant in at least four...more

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