Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is delighted to announce that partner Pedro Hernandez, the co-leader of the firm’s global Insurance Services group, has been named a finalist in the Best Mentor category of the 2026 Florida Legal Awards, presented by the Daily Business Review and American Law Media (ALM).

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that Hinshaw partners James (Jim) Sandy and Scott Seaman have been ranked as Top Authors in the 2026 JD Supra Readers’ Choice Awards.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP today announced that 16 attorneys, including eight partners, have joined the firm’s Consumer Financial Services and Insurance Services industry groups.

Read Scott Seaman’s insights in Law360 about a Delaware court’s ruling that Meta cannot obtain insurance coverage for claims that its platform is addictive to adolescents.

Read Hinshaw partner Spencer Kook's insights in a recent Law360 Insurance Authority article discussing AB 1642, a bill being considered in the California legislature that would require statewide standards for testing and clearing homes of toxic contaminants after wildfires.

Read the US chapter of RPC's 2026 Annual Insurance Review, authored by Hinshaw partners Scott Seaman and Pedro Hernandez, who address a wide array of critical insurance developments and topics.

Tampa partner Eli Marger will co-present "Forensic Meteorology: Uses and Limitations" on March 23 and March 25, 2025, at the Property & Liability Resource Bureau (PLRB) Claims Conference & Insurance Services Expo in National Harbor, Maryland.

Hinshaw partners John DeLascio, Barry MacEntee, and Jason Schulze will speak on separate panels at Global Access Week 2026, a Hinshaw-sponsored conference taking place March 10-12, 2026, in London, United Kingdom.

Hinshaw partner Joel Wiegert will serve as the conference co-chair for the Fidelity Law Association (FLA) 31st Annual Conference, in Chicago, Illinois, on October 8, 2025, for which Hinshaw is a firm sponsor. His Hinshaw colleague, Michael Adams, will also present as part of a panel titled "Who's Holding the Bag? (And Who Gets to File the Claim)?"

Hinshaw partner Scott Seaman will co-present the BARBRI CLE webinar "Environmental Insurance Coverages: CGL, Property, and D&O Policies for PFASs, ESG, NRD, CERCLA, RCRA, OPA, and Others" on February 26, 2026. 

Hinshaw partner Scott Seaman will co-present the BARBRI CLE webinar, "Allocation of Liability and Exhaustion of Policy Limits: Policyholder and Carrier Perspectives," on February 10, 2026.

Hinshaw partner Scott Seaman—the co-chair of the firm's global Insurance Services Practice Group—is scheduled to co-present a virtual panel titled "Navigating Compliance" on May 20, 2025.

Learn the new employer obligations under the Illinois Family Neonatal Intensive Care Leave Act, taking effect on June 1, 2026.

Learn how a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision clarifies the limits of ADA protections for retired employees and what steps employers should take to ensure compliance.

In this November edition of Hinshaw’s Privacy, Cyber and AI Decoded, in celebration of the US Thanksgiving holiday, we are recommending that our readers Keep Calm as they are faced with a new surge of legal requirements, regulations, and enforcement actions, and Gobble On. 

Explore compliance implications of California’s finalized CCPA rules and Colorado’s new regulations, including insurance privacy requirements, ADMT notices, risk assessments, and phased cyber audits.

On July 16, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency (Agency) discussed proposed updates to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations. These proposed updates involve:

Read our latest alert on California’s SB 41 for a practical compliance roadmap—implementation timeline, immediate next steps, a 30-day action checklist, and ongoing planning guidance to align PBM practices by January 1, 2026.

Learn how the New York AVOID Act significantly changes third-party practice and the key compliance steps to prepare for the law taking effect on April 19, 2026.

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues are not new but are more relevant than ever. To help you cut through the noise around ESG and determine not only what your business needs to do but also what your business can do to stay competitive, Hinshaw's thought leaders have put together numerous resources. We are here to help our clients make sense of it all.

The Bronx, where I came of age and grew into young adulthood, is well-known for the scrap of its residents. That can also be said of its judiciary. On December 20, 2022, in Wu v. Uber Techs., Inc.,[i] the New York State Supreme Court, Bronx County (the Court), a New York State trial court,[ii] enforced the arbitral provisions of Uber's terms that plaintiff click-wrapped over two months after she filed a lawsuit against Uber for personal injuries she sustained while exiting a vehicle she had hailed using her Uber app. The Court's opinion is a tour de force and is especially noteworthy for the Court's gutsy decision, possibly in dicta but in the face of controlling legal authority to the contrary, that the 1993 holding of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (the Second Circuit), in Progressive Casualty Ins. Co. v. C.A. Reaseguradora Nacional de Venezuela,[iii] had, in cases falling under the long-reach of the Federal Arbitration Act (the FAA),[iv] displaced the heightened burden to prove the making of an agreement to arbitrate that New York law imposes on a party who seeks arbitration. Instead, the Court decided, after a thorough analysis, that the preponderance of the evidence standard that applies under New York law to prove the making of agreements generally applies also to proving the making of an agreement to arbitrate in state court actions falling under the FAA, as the Second Circuit held in Progressive.

In 2025, Hinshaw’s global insurance services team authored several resources on key developments and decisions that impacted the US insurance industry. From our timely commentary just published in Mealey’s to the third edition of our Duty to Defend 50-state survey and whitepapers covering a variety of areas that impact the industry, our team has you covered.

Read a deep-dive analysis of what is included in the new Third Edition of Hinshaw's Duty to Defend: A Fifty-State Survey, a comprehensive Q&A guide with answers to eleven key questions for each state that will help you navigate the duty to defend.

Read our latest alert explaining why regulating rate controls can backfire—driving up costs, lowering availability, and risking insolvency—while highlighting litigation costs and “social inflation” as key factors increasing premiums.

The Occupational Health and Safety Act (the OHS) was signed into law in 1970 and established the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), as part of the U.S. Department of Labor.[1] Under the so-called "general duties" provision in Section 5(a)(1) of the OHS, all employers are required to "furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees."[2]

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:

Welcome to the first edition of The LHD/ERISA Advisor, a Hinshaw newsletter focusing on legal developments in the life, health, and disability areas. The Advisor will provide an analysis of the most current cases and trends on both ERISA-governed and individual policy claims. We sincerely hope the newsletter will provide useful context and support for your litigation and claim decisions going forward.