Articles by Kevin LaCroix

Insider trading plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?

For several years, directors and officers underwriters have viewed corporate insiders’ adoption of so-called “Rule 10b5-1 plans” as evidence of good corporate governance and as a positive underwriting factor. However, recent academic research and regulatory comments suggest that those plans …

Insider trading plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?

For several years, directors and officers underwriters have viewed corporate insiders’ adoption of so-called “Rule 10b5-1 plans” as evidence of good corporate governance and as a positive underwriting factor. However, recent academic research and regulatory comments suggest that those plans …

Insider trading plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?

For several years, directors and officers underwriters have viewed corporate insiders’ adoption of so-called “Rule 10b5-1 plans” as evidence of good corporate governance and as a positive underwriting factor. However, recent academic research and regulatory comments suggest that those plans …

Insider trading plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?

For several years, directors and officers underwriters have viewed corporate insiders’ adoption of so-called “Rule 10b5-1 plans” as evidence of good corporate governance and as a positive underwriting factor. However, recent academic research and regulatory comments suggest that those plans …

Insider trading plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?

For several years, directors and officers underwriters have viewed corporate insiders’ adoption of so-called “Rule 10b5-1 plans” as evidence of good corporate governance and as a positive underwriting factor. However, recent academic research and regulatory comments suggest that those plans …

Insider trading plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?

For several years, directors and officers underwriters have viewed corporate insiders’ adoption of so-called “Rule 10b5-1 plans” as evidence of good corporate governance and as a positive underwriting factor. However, recent academic research and regulatory comments suggest that those plans …

Insider Trading Plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?

For several years, directors and officers underwriters have viewed corporate insiders’ adoption of so-called “Rule 10b5-1 plans” as evidence of good corporate governance and as a positive underwriting factor. However, recent academic research and regulatory comments suggest that those plans …

Insider Trading Plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?

For several years, directors and officers underwriters have viewed corporate insiders’ adoption of so-called “Rule 10b5-1 plans” as evidence of good corporate governance and as a positive underwriting factor. However, recent academic research and regulatory comments suggest that those plans …

Recent “opt-out” settlements challenge D&O severity, limits assumptions

A recent wave of individual institutional in-vestor securities lawsuit “opt-out” settlements is raising troubling new questions about both D&O carriers’ claims severity assumptions and D&O policyholders’ limits adequacy. An opt-out action involves a separate lawsuit brought by an individual investor …

Recent “opt-out” settlements challenge D&O severity, limits assumptions

A recent wave of individual institutional investor securities lawsuit “opt-out” settlements is raising troubling new questions about both D&O carriers’ claims severity assumptions and D&O policyholders’ limits adequacy. An opt-out action involves a separate lawsuit brought by an individual investor …