D&O Insurance Myths (Part 1)
What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Is It Time to Find a New Supplier?
What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Candid Conversations with Suppliers in Distress
What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Identifying Suppliers in Distress
The Calm Before the Storm: Planning for Catastrophic Weather Events
Out With a Bang: Current State of Play on Coverage for COVID-Related Losses
Regulating the Internet of Things
The Intersection of Insurance and Bankruptcy – Part 2
On-Demand Webinar | Impacts of COVID-19 on Litigation Economic Damages
On-Demand Webinar | Insurance Issues Faced by Employers in Times of COVID-19
COVID-19 in the Workplace - PPP Update, COVID Plans from the Biden Transition Team, Higher Education Relief Package Provision, COVID WARN Act Developments
How an Am Law 200 Firm is Working Towards Solutions to 2020’s Challenges with Jeremy Sacks: On Record PR
Second-Wave Contingency Planning and Risk Mitigation Strategies - Diagnosing Health Care Podcast
COVID-19 Business Interruption Insurance Claims: A Practical Perspective
WEBINAR: COVID-19 Insurance Coverage Class Actions
Compliance Perspectives: Compliance During a Business Interruption
Butler's Thursday Tips #3 | Handling Business Loss Claims
AF COVID-19 Podcast: Business Interruption Coverage, Do You Have a Claim?
Lifting the Fog Over Lobbying Compliance - updated with impact of COVID-19 on NYS lobbying community
Litigation and COVID-19: How to Protect Your Business in This Time of Crisis
In light of the recent heavy rainfall in the UAE, both insurers and businesses must understand the legal framework outlined in Federal Law No. 5/1985 on Civil Transactions Law or Civil Code. This law provides comprehensive...more
VFLA Eventco, LLC v. William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC, 2024 WL (March 6, 2024) involved the loss of $6 million in deposits that had been paid to secure the performances of various artists at a two day musical...more
Nearly four years after the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, issues concerning the legal consequences of executive and legislative orders shutting down business operations are still working their way through appellate courts...more
With Hurricane Idalia about to cross Florida, people are naturally focused on preparations and the potential adverse impacts that it will have. For businesses, that should include analysis of contractual obligations that...more
Last week, Florida’s Second District Court of Appeals handed down a pro-landlord decision arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic. See Fitness International, LLC v. 93FLRPT, LLC, No. 2D22-1182, May 10, 2023. One week later...more
What is one way to prepare for the unexpected? A force majeure clause. The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest historical event that could neither be anticipated nor controlled by contracting parties at the time of contracting....more
In West Pueblo Partners, LLC v. Stone Brewing Co., LLC, (2023 WL 3151827), the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, affirmed summary judgment on the basis that the COVID-19 pandemic force majeure event did...more
Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses began to scrutinize force majeure clauses in their commercial contracts and leases. Such contractual clauses, when engaged, either permanently or temporarily relieve the...more
In this episode of “Don't Take No for an Answer,” Lynda A. Bennett talks to Stacey C. Tyler, counsel in Lowenstein’s Real Estate practice group, about some of the key insurance coverage issues that come up when a company...more
A recent decision from Justice Robert Reed of the Manhattan Commercial Division in J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation v. Miami Wind I, LLC, Goldthwaite Wind Energy LLC demonstrates how parties have the ability to excuse...more
In what some may regard as a surprising outcome, the English Court of Appeal has held that a force majeure clause was not triggered because the affected party could have accepted performance that was not in accordance with...more
Perhaps since the very first executive order came out ordering businesses to close amid the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, attorneys have been holding their breath, waiting to see how Covid-19 would play out in terms...more
Given the recent expansion of the regulatory landscape in light of the ongoing events in Russia and Ukraine, namely the imposition of extensive sanctions on Russia (and certain Russian banks and nationals), there has been a...more
The Russian military’s invasion of Ukraine, coupled with the considerable economic sanctions levied against Russia and certain Russian entities and individuals, has significantly impacted businesses worldwide. Recognizing the...more
Traditionally, industry in Germany has enjoyed close commercial ties with Russia and Ukraine. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the resulting sanctions imposed on Russia—and by Russia—will inevitably affect these business...more
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine, and the severe sanctions imposed by governments globally in response to Russia's aggression, are having extreme effects on parties' legal obligations, and are drastically altering the...more
COVID-19 has had an enormous impact on businesses of all kinds. But organizations in the real estate sector—both commercial and residential—have been hit particularly hard. The fallout from the pandemic has sparked numerous...more
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to leave businesses in limbo. Prolonged government shutdowns and health restrictions designed to limit the spread of the coronavirus have disrupted contractual relations across the...more
In a survey of cases in federal, state and bankruptcy courts, commercial tenants seeking to delay or excuse the payment of rent because of pandemic-related downturns in business sometimes looked to the equitable doctrines of...more
When in the throes of protracted lease negotiations, frustrated clients often ask me whether a proposed term is truly necessary to the contemplated transaction. Most clients start these discussions with the goal of achieving...more
As the pandemic has evolved, so too has the number and complexity of the questions arising in force majeure disputes. Regardless of whether a party is seeking to invoke, or defend against invocation of, a force majeure...more
It has been said that, sooner or later, everything old is new again. In the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) sweeping the globe in 2020, a heretofore largely overlooked and even less understood nineteenth...more
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESS - The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted supply chains around the world requiring many companies to adjust operations and their business. Supply chain litigation has not erupted as...more
In one of the latest and most high-profile decisions from across the country relating to commercial tenants’ rent obligations during the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New...more
"It cannot be seriously disputed that the COVID-19 pandemic is a natural disaster." This seemingly straightforward conclusion has only been reached in a small number of reported court decisions since the start of the...more