Hinshaw Miami partner Daniel Shatz has been named to Attorney Intel's Top 25 Financial Services and Insurance Attorneys of 2025.

The national law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that 75 of the firm's lawyers have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. In addition, 30 Hinshaw lawyers were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

The national law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that 73 of the firm's lawyers have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. In addition, 28 Hinshaw lawyers were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

Hinshaw partner Daniel Shatz recently authored a byline published by the American Bar Association (ABA) that discussed an Eleventh Circuit decision that reaffirmed that under Florida law the breach of a captain warranty in a marine insurance policy only precludes insurance coverage if the breach increased the hazard posed to the vessel.

Hinshaw partner Daniel Shatz and attorney Timothy Odzer co-authored a byline published by the Insurance Coverage Law Center titled, "Is There Automobile Insurance Coverage for an STI Contracted During Car Sex?" The article examines a case in which a Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed a $5.2 million judgment award in favor of a woman who contracted a sexually-transmitted infection (STI) after having sexual intercourse with a man in a car insured by GEICO. ICLC Editor Hannah Smith highlighted the byline as among the "most-read" stories of the week for August 8-12, 2022.

Hinshaw attorneys Nicole Gould and Daniel Shatz authored an article in the Daily Business Review titled, "Is an Additional Insured Entitled to a Loss Run Statement?" In the piece, Gould and Shatz discuss Fla. Stats. §§ 626.9202(2), 627.444(2)—enacted in 2020—which require surplus lines and authorized insurers to provide an insured with a loss run statement within 15 calendar days after receipt of the request. Whether the requestor qualifies as "an insured" under the policy typically will be clear. But the authors point out that it may not be when the requestor "claims that (s)he or it qualifies as what is known as an 'additional insured' under an insurance policy."

Join us for Hinshaw's Webinar Series: Insurance Insights – What Insurers Need to Know in 2021. This series will feature insurance thought leaders from Hinshaw and RPC, presenting on the most pressing insurance claims topics in the wake of a pandemic.

Earlier this month, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law S.B. 76, enacting significant property insurance claim reform in the State of Florida that becomes effective on July 1, 2021. We summarize some of the highlights below.