Target Must Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Pride Backlash, Judge Rules
Target has failed to persuade a judge in Florida to dismiss a lawsuit that accused the retailer of deceiving shareholders after its sales of LGBTQ-themed merchandise for Pride ...
D&O insurance News
‘AI Washing’ Troubles: SEC Fines Investment Firms, Issues Warnings
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week said it settled charges against two investment advisers related to "AI washing," or essentially making false claims about their use of artificial ...
D&O Insurance Specialist IDs a Fourth Variant of COVID Shareholder Suits
Even over a holiday weekend, alerts were hitting the newswires in advance of Jan. 3—the deadline for shareholders of ON24 to apply for lead plaintiff status in a lawsuit against the online event ...
SiriusPoint Debuts D&O Insurance MGA Banyan Risk
SiriusPoint Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer, announced the launch of Banyan Risk Ltd., a managing general agent that underwrites directors and officers (D&O) insurance. ...
U.S. D&O Underwriting Losses Continue Despite Record Premiums: Fitch Ratings
Record premiums haven't been enough to reverse U.S. D&O insurers' underwriting losses, and the sector will still lose money in the near term as a result, Fitch Ratings said. Premium growth for ...
Musk Paid Nearly $1M by Tesla for His Controversial D&O Insurance Arrangement
Tesla Inc. is making a one-time payment of almost $1 million to Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk related to a controversial insurance arrangement he agreed to with the carmaker's board earlier this ...
COVID-19 Accelerates D&O Transformation Already Underway
Rates for the struggling Directors and Officers insurance market jumped by 44 percent in the 2020 first quarter. Expect that market hardening trend to continue for some time, with increases likely to ...
Ex-CFO of Bankrupt Enron Offers D&O Lessons from Accounting’s ‘Gray’ Areas
Andrew Fastow, former chief financial officer of Enron Corp., a now-defunct energy trading company swept up in a massive fraud scandal in the early 2000s, warned a room full of directors and officers ...
J&J Will Appeal $1B Verdict in Recent Artificial Hip Implant Trial
Johnson & Johnson will challenge the fairness of a trial that produced a verdict of $1 billion in damages against the company last week over allegations of design flaws in its Pinnacle hip ...