Insurance Law

Discusses corporate and individual actions, indemnification by statutes, charters and bylaws, and options in D&O insurance. It provides specific strategies to protect corporate management from liability and guidance in the proper court-proven methods and techniques.
Westlaw (ID and password required)

Covers the evolved terms of the corporate liabilities presented, the contract terms implicated and the case decisions interpreting those terms. Provides synopses of important judicial decisions and a guide on how to seek reimbursement for losses brought upon by wrongful acts committed by directors and officers.
Westlaw (ID and password required)

Covers legal malpractice liability, prevention, litigation, and insurance. The work examines all subjects concerning lawyers' professional liability and responsibility, including disqualification, sanctions, fee disputes, vicarious liability, and liability to non-clients and former clients.
Westlaw (ID and password required)

Legal malpractice litigation in the United States grew rapidly from 1980 through 2010 but accelerated even more dramatically after the Great Recession. The most dramatic increases in volume occurred in the area of very large claims (settlement value in the millions of dollars) against large firms that had previously been off limits. This nationally-focused treatise addresses only areas where legal malpractice law varied substantiallly as opposed to related topics like professional ethics and risk management. It also covers medium and small states.
Bloomberg Law (ID and password required)

Addressing the numerous and significant professional responsibility challenges in litigation, this compendium traces the ethical issues in the life of a lawsuit from start to finish. The authors broadly define “professional responsibility” to include not only legal ethics but also the related issues of sanctions and professional liability.
Bloomberg Law (ID and pasword required)

Explores the mistakes lawyers sometimes make, the nature of these mistakes, the harm they do, and the significant disparities in outcomes for corporate and individual victims of lawyers' errors. A systematic, empirical study of legal malpractice, the title employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the frequency and nature of claims, the area of practice producing them, the amounts at stake, and the resolutions.