Covid-19: Furlough FAQs

ONE MILLION businesses are using the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to fund the wages of 7.5 million employees at a cost to the government of £12bn a month. The scheme, under which employers may apply for government grants equivalent to 80% of furloughed employees’ pay, has been a lifeline to firms in peril as a
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Cyber in the times of Covid-19: the cybercrime triad.

ABSTRACT: The exceptional situation that the world is living in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic has come with an increase in the exposure of companies and public institutions to cyber-attacks. Taking preventive (ex ante) and repair (ex post) measures is the key to a proper response to the cyber-risk, mitigating the potential harm of
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Business Inter/uption/pretation

The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly led every business to assess their existing insurance cover in the hope that they have business interruption cover in place. Many would have been excited at the inclusion of a section titled “Business Interruption” in their policy wording, but in the insurance world, that blanket term does not guarantee cover
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Morrisons v Various Claimants (1 April 2020) Supreme Court

Judgment regarding application of vicarious liability test in Class Action against employer in context of malicious data use Supreme Court corrects misunderstanding of lower Courts’ interpretation of vicarious liability test and decides Morrisons supermarkets were not vicariously liable for their employee’s conduct The Supreme Court ruling of WM Morrison Supermarkets Plc v Various Claimants [2020]
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Insuralex´s Exclusive Member in California recommended as a leading firm in chambers USA 2020 survey

Bullivant attorneys Andrew Downs and Thomas Hutchinson have been recognized as ranked lawyers in the latest edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2020). Andrew Downs is ranked in California in the area of insurance law and Thomas Hutchinson is ranked in Oregon in the area of general commercial litigation. The Chambers guide, described as the most
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Covid-19: Some reinsurance perspectives

One hundred years after the Spanish flu pandemic, Marsh and Munich Re, in May 2018, launched an innovative parametric insurance product, PathogenRX. This provided insurance against business interruption caused by a pandemic. In October 2018, Marsh presciently observed in a paper entitled “Pandemic Readiness: Risk Finance and Mitigation Strategies”: “Although recent pandemics and epidemics have
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Covid-19: Insurance Implications

Life, travel and event cancellation insurers closely engage in the rapidly unfolding global development of COVID-19 and prepare for the next few months. CPB Partner, Helen Tilley, comments on the insurance implications alongside local perspectives from Insuralex network member law firms in Italy, France, Spain and Japan The 2019 Novel Coronavirus that originated in the
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FREE INSURALEX WEBINAR: Impact of Covid-19 on the Latin American (Re) Insurance Industry (II)

This is the second of two unparalleled webinars offering a regional overview about the impact of the Covid-19 on the Latin American (Re) Insurance Industry. This webinar is aimed at and designed exclusively for insurance and reinsurance professionals, as well as (re)insurance intermediaries. Countries covered: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. Topics:
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FREE INSURALEX WEBINAR: Impact of Covid-19 on the Latin American (Re) Insurance Industry (I)

This is the first of two unparalleled webinars offering a regional overview about the impact of the Covid-19 on the Latin American (Re) Insurance Industry. This webinar is aimed at and designed exclusively for insurance and reinsurance professionals, as well as (re)insurance intermediaries. Countries covered: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Topics: COVID19 and impact
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Pandemic’s Impact on Case Evaluations

As we have seen to tragic effect around the world, the COVID-19 virus has proved to be unpredictable, with guidelines from state and federal governments and health agencies evolving from one week to the next. Currently, the effect of the crisis on litigation is also hard to predict, but the profound experience our future jurors
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