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By: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

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Jose Lua-Valencia
Matthew D. Stockwell
Amanda G. Halter Joseph D. Jean
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  In the finance world, Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are proliferating like Dutch tulips. This year alone, they’ve exploded in popularity, with multitudes of celebrities, politicians, and influencers sponsoring SPACs of their own. The list includes the likes of Colin Kaepernick, Shaquille O’Neal, Alex Rodriguez and Tony Hawk. Even amidst new concerns from the SEC, which reportedly opened an inquiry into the investment risks of SPACs and issued a bulletin warning prospective…
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In a previous post, we addressed blanket additional insured endorsements and the role they play in passing insurance obligations downstream. In short, the purpose of a “blanket” endorsement is to grant additional insured status to any company as required in a written contract with the named insured. This obligation often begins in the prime contract where the owner requires additional insured status on the general contractor’s insurance. However, the general contractor typically attempts to…
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How Capri Holdings Ltd. Could Provide a Path Past Mama Jo’s

By Pillsburys Insurance Recovery Law Team
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A recent article in Law360 shines a spotlight on an Amended Complaint filed by Pillsbury’s award-winning Insurance Recovery and Advisory Group in a significant insurance recovery action seeking coverage for COVID-19 business interruption. In it, the Amended Complaint is described as a “beefed-up filing” where our colleagues have “unleashed a deluge of scientific studies on COVID-19.” The article  suggests that the “the arguments outlined in Tuesday’s filing could be a potential avenue around Mama Jo’s…
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Pillsbury Insurance Insolvency Watch: Legacy U.S. and London Insurers Set Claims Bar Dates for Policyholders

By Bryan J. Coffey & Steven E. Knott
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In recent weeks, two insurers with significant legacies of occurrence-based general liability coverage took important steps to liquidate their estates. Bedivere Insurance Company (OneBeacon) Liquidation The first insurers are associated with Bedivere Insurance Company, formerly known as OneBeacon Insurance Company (OBIC). OBIC’s history stretches back to the 1800s but is most well known as the successor to the General Accident and Commercial Union families of insurers. These companies wrote many policies from the 1960s through…
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Claims-Writing Ghosts Come Back to Haunt Insurers

By William C. Miller & Mark J. Plumer
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By Pillsburys Insurance Recovery Law Team
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By Pillsburys Insurance Recovery Law Team
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By Scott D. Greenspan
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