Articles by Kevin LaCroix

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 …

Should D&O insurers have a loss prevention role?

Why don’t directors and officers insurers insist on corporate governance reform from their insureds as a precondition of coverage, the way property and workers’ compensation insurers condition their coverage on loss prevention measures? This perennial question is examined in a …

Should D&O insurers have a loss prevention role?

Why don’t directors and officers insurers insist on corporate governance reform from their insureds as a precondition of coverage, the way property and workers’ compensation insurers condition their coverage on loss prevention measures? This perennial question is examined in a …

Should D&O insurers have a loss prevention role?

Why don’t directors and officers insurers insist on corporate governance reform from their insureds as a precondition of coverage, the way property and workers’ compensation insurers condition their coverage on loss prevention measures? This perennial question is examined in a …

Should D&O insurers have a loss prevention role?

Why don’t directors and officers insurers insist on corporate governance reform from their insureds as a precondition of coverage, the way property and workers’ compensation insurers condition their coverage on loss prevention measures? This perennial question is examined in a …

Enron’s legacies and directors and officers risk

Shortly after former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling’s Oct. 23, 2006, sentencing, the Enron Task Force said it was closing down, with its mission mostly complete. Yet did that event really signal an endpoint in the Enron criminal scandal? Perhaps it’s …

Enron’s legacies and directors and officers risk

Shortly after former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling’s Oct. 23, 2006, sentencing, the Enron Task Force said it was closing down, with its mission mostly complete. Yet did that event really signal an endpoint in the Enron criminal scandal? Perhaps it’s …

Enron’s legacies and directors’ and officers’ risk

Shortly after former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling’s Oct. 23, 2006, sentencing, the Enron Task Force said it was closing down, with its mission mostly complete. Yet did that event really signal an endpoint in the Enron criminal scandal? Perhaps it’s …

Enron’s legacies and directors’ and officers’ risk

Shortly after former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling’s Oct. 23, 2006, sentencing, the Enron Task Force said it was closing down, with its mission mostly complete. Yet did that event really signal an endpoint in the Enron criminal scandal? Perhaps it’s …