As health care costs continue to rise, many employers are looking for ways they can help contain or eliminate unnecessary health plan costs without impacting the benefits coverage itself. Toward that end, some employers may find…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
In this increasingly litigious and regulatory intense environment, D&O Looking Ahead provides a bridge to help you stay on top of the evolving D&O risk landscape. – Priya Huskins The streak of good news in D&O litigation risk…
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/ Business Organizations, Insurance
This webinar focuses on the privacy, security, regulatory, and litigation landscape that the healthcare sector is facing in in the privacy and cybersecurity arena. Leveraging Polsinelli’s experience working with healthcare…
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/ Privacy, Health
In a market known for volatility, public company D&O (directors & officers) insurance has certainly lived up to its reputation in recent years—pricing has been on a roller coaster, fluctuating between skyrocketing increases and…
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/ Insurance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities Law
Insurance buyers enjoyed favorable market conditions across most segments of the commercial lines market in the first half of 2024. D&O and Cyber led the way in premium decreases, even benefiting companies with claims activity…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Insurance
Public companies are under immense pressure to stay ahead of emerging trends, navigate increasingly complex regulations, and meet investor and other stakeholder demands. The expertise required to address these challenges is…
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/ Business Organizations, Securities Law
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Rev. Proc. 2024-35, which contains the inflation adjusted amounts for 2025 used to determine whether employer-sponsored coverage is “affordable” for purposes of the Affordable Care…
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/ Health, Labor & Employment Law, Taxation
The role of the chief information security officer (CISO) in 2024 is evolving. With budgetary limitations, an increasingly complex threat environment, generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, new regulatory mandates, a…
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/ Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Recently, much has been written about Rupert Murdoch’s petition to amend his Nevada irrevocable trust to grant his eldest son, Lachlan, voting control over News Corp and Fox Corporation. While the battle between family members…
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/ Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
Government agencies have been launching and testing whistleblower programs for some time and have been delighted by their results. Tippers have benefited, too—with some amassing multimillion-dollar awards. Not to be left out,…
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/ Criminal Law, Government Contracting
It’s obvious that strong cybersecurity governance should help to reduce a company’s risk of succumbing to a cybersecurity incident or being significantly impacted should one materialize. One major challenge: determining what…
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/ Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
When you have a fully insured health plan, you might think you don’t have a viable way to reduce benefits costs. After all, you can’t access the data analytic insights you would see if you were self-funded. But switching to…
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/ Health, Insurance, Labor & Employment Law
The use of representations and warranties insurance (RWI or R&W) has become increasingly mainstream. An estimated 75% of private equity transactions and 64% of larger strategic acquirers use it. Woodruff Sawyer’s R&W team…
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/ Business Organizations, Insurance, Mergers & Acquisitions
According to The Violence Prevention Project, workplaces are the most common locations for mass shootings in the US. The organization, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center funded by the National Institute of Justice, reports…
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/ Insurance, Labor & Employment Law
Founding a successful company is enormously difficult. An oft-cited statistic is that 75% of venture-backed start-ups fail, a percentage that is probably both understated and fails to consider all the companies that never even…
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/ Business Organizations, Mergers & Acquisitions
