Social Media Ideas for Directors & Officers (D&O)

When E&O and D&O Lines Start to Blur

It’s not always immediately clear which coverage line a claim will ultimately engage at the outset. What initially appears to fall within errors and omissions liability (E&O) m...

Receiver's demand letters fail to trigger directors and officers coverage

The demand went to the wrong party - and a whole D&O claim collapsed with it

When the LLC Isn’t Enough: Why Leveraged Franchise Operators Need to Rethink D&O Before the Next Cycle Turns

The recent wave of franchise bankruptcies has generated plenty of post-mortems. Analysts point to over-leveraged balance sheets, fixed-cost structures that couldn’t flex when traff...

“Related” But Not Excluded: Delaware Court Rejects Insurer’s Narrow View of D&O Coverage for Derivative Claim

Board of Directors Basics

eBay's $55 million stalking settlement raises an old D&O question

A pig mask and a funeral wreath sent to critics has ended in one of the largest publicised personal payouts by former corporate executives in recent memory

The Board Director’s Playbook: Acquisition Oversight

eBay's £42 million stalking settlement raises an old D&O question

A bloody pig mask and a funeral wreath sent to critics has ended in one of the largest publicised personal payouts by former corporate executives in recent memory

When does a company director become personally liable?

The figure of the director in a limited liability company constitutes an essential position within the organisational system of social capital companies. Although these companies a...

The Chief Everything Officer

SEC Sues Former Executives of Collapsed Auto Lender Tricolor

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday sued the former CEO and two other top executives of Tricolor, the latest fallout after the collapse of the Texas-based used-c...

Does DORA Require Training for the Board and Executives Team?

Is Board Cyber Crisis Training mandated by EU DORA? Short answer: yes, and it's more specific than most boards assume. DORA doesn't leave board-level cyber competence as a best-pra...

Directors are making decisions with less certainty than ever

Boards are not struggling to identify risk, they are struggling to decide what demands attention first

Delaware Court Applies Larger Settlement Rule to D&O Allocation Dispute

SEC Climate Rule Rescission: Less Uniformity, Not Less D&O Risk

Trump’s Diversity Crackdown Reverberates Through US Boardrooms

As U.S. President Donald Trump intensifies his campaign against diversity programs, appointments of women and racial minorities to S&P 500 boards have dropped to their lowest l...

Domino's Pizza appoints 2 new directors, names Corie Barry lead independent director of the board

PRESS RELEASE: Dollar Tree CEO Michael Creedon and HP executive Anneliese Olson join the pizza giant's board as it continues executing its long-term strategy.

Almost All Top US Companies Had Board Diversity Rules. Now Most Are Gone

Three years ago, nearly every major US company explicitly considered diversity when choosing new directors. Now, most don’t. In all, 61 S&P 100 companies have dumped explicit d...

The Hartford names former AssuredPartners CEO to its board

Randy Larsen joins two board committees as Hartford also declares dividends on common and preferred stock