The $750 Million Comma? BP Is Not Entitled to Coverage for the Gulf Oil Spill as an Additional Insured Under Policies Issued to Transocean

by S Z | Sep 15, 2019

The Supreme Court of Texas ruled on February 13, 2015, that BP is not entitled to coverage as an additional insured under insurance policies Transocean procured for the Deepwater Horizon. We previously wrote about the insurance coverage dispute concerning subsurface...

Insurance News, Winter 2015

by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019

From the Courts Bad Faith Round-Up: Case Summaries from 2014In this issue, we review some of the more noteworthy holdings dealing with bad faith, from around the country during the past year. This summary is by no means exhaustive, and we focus primarily on P&C...

Obama Administration’s 2016 Budget Proposal

by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019

You may have seen references to President Obama’s 2016 budget proposals and how they might affect your gifting and estate planning opportunities. Given that Congressional Republicans, who now control both the House and the Senate, oppose these measures, it...

Higher Ed Legal Update, March 2015

by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019

We are pleased to share this first issue of the Wiggin and Dana Education Practice Group newsletter on matters of interest to the higher education community. Our group has represented institutions of higher education for more than half a century on issues ranging from...

NLRB Issues New Rules to Speed Up Election Process

by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019

In December 2014, the National Labor Relations Board issued new rules that it claims will modernize and streamline union certification elections. In fact, the rules, scheduled to go into effect on April 14, 2015, are mostly about shortening the time between a...