Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that 80 lawyers are recognized in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, with ten receiving this honor for the first time. Additionally, 22 Hinshaw lawyers are included in The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

View Hinshaw's firm and attorney recognitions in the 2025 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business.

The U.S. law firm Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP today announced that the firm received recognition in the 2024 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. Nine Hinshaw partners from across the nation are featured in the guide. The firm's insurance and aviation practices received nationwide recognition. In addition, the insurance practice was regionally recognized in Illinois, Florida, and California.

Read insights from Hinshaw partner Spencer Kook on the need for a streamlined rate review and approval process for insurers in California.

Read Hinshaw partner Spencer Kook's insights in a recent PropertyCasualty360 article discussing California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara's provisional approval of State Farm's request for an emergency interim rate increase.

In a recent analysis by Law360 Insurance Authority, Hinshaw partner Spencer Kook discussed California's new reinsurance regulation—the Net Cost of Reinsurance in Ratemaking Regulation (NCOR)—which will require insurers to increase coverage in wildfire-prone areas.

Los Angeles-based partner Spencer Kook will present at the Hinshaw-sponsored ARIAS Spring Conference on April 30, 2025, in Coral Gables, Florida during a panel titled "California Wildfires: Insurance and Reinsurance Issues."

Hinshaw partner Spencer Kook will give two presentations at American Property Casualty Insurance Association's Western Regional General Counsel Conference:

Hinshaw is proud to sponsor the American Bar Association’s (ABA) 2022 Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee CLE Seminar. Hinshaw's attorneys will participate in two separate panel discussions. On March 3, 2022, Ron Kammer will present as part of a panel titled “When Disaster Strikes: Coverage Implications of the Florida Condo Collapse.” Kammer's panel will focus on the coverage implications arising from building collapses like the one that took place last year in Florida, and discuss coverage issues under the property and liability policies of the association, owners, and the construction professionals involved, including complex causation, ensuing loss, and other provisions that commonly arise in such cases.

We review two significant actions recently taken by the California Department of Insurance (the "Department") in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On May 6, 2020, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-62-20, which provides that an employee's COVID-19 related illness "shall be presumed to arise out of and in the course of the employment for purposes of awarding workers' compensation benefits" so long as the following criteria applies: