Blog Archives - SandRun Risk

Two Court Decisions in Ohio Ruled that Insurance Policies Issued for More Than One Year Provide Annual Aggregate Limits

7/11/2021

For those insurance policies issued for more than one year, policyholders often argue that the insurance policies provide for annual aggregate limits. Two court decisions in Ohio agreed with the policyholder.

A 2021 Look at Bankruptcy Trust and Transparency Issues in Asbestos Litigation, Part II: Abuse in the Bankruptcy Trust System Has Created Dysfunction in the Tort System

7/5/2021

The authors of this guest essay, Evelyn Fletcher Davis and William T. Wood, III are partners in the Atlanta office of Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP, where their practices focus on asbestos litigation defense. This three-part guest article examines the evolution of the bankruptcy trust system (Part I), how control over the trust system by plaintiffs’ counsel has resulted in unfair allocations of responsibility, double recoveries and excessive costs (Part II), and offers practical advice to defense counsel to fix the disconnect between the tort and trust systems (Part III).

Improving ERM Practices in the Age of Pandemics and Cyber Crime: Part XII - It Starts With Education

7/5/2021

We live at a time when humanity is steadily moving away from riskier forms of self-sufficiency to safer and more productive forms of mutual interdependence. This happens only through the evolution of existing systems and models for managing uncertainty. The COVID-19 pandemic is a powerful reminder that improving the rate of learning in a community is essential for evolution to occur.