Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP today announced that Rachel Nudel has joined the firm’s Defense Litigation Practice as a partner, operating from the firm’s offices in New York and New Jersey.

The law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that Scott Seaman, Palma Yanni, and Ian Wagreich have been recognized in the 2026 edition of the Lexology Index Thought Leaders: USA guide.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that partner April Toy has been recognized among “Wisconsin’s 31 Most Influential Latino Leaders of 2025” by Madison365.

Read Hinshaw partner Carol Rooney's recently authored article in The Brief discussing the membership benefits of serving in the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) Appellate Advocacy Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA).

Explore a Hinshaw team's analysis in the Daily Business Review on Florida’s sweeping 2025 condominium law reforms, and learn how new mandates on inspections, reserves, and transparency will impact associations, insurers, and counsel statewide.

Explore Scott Seaman’s insights in a Law360 review of the top property insurance rulings from early 2025, including a key Tenth Circuit decision on a bad faith lawsuit.

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 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)?"

Join Hinshaw partner Jenelle La Chuisa's panel titled "Can Insurance Protect Us? A U.S. and Canadian Perspective" at the Annual Lavender Law Conference & Career Fair on July 29, 2025, in New York City.

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.

San Francisco-based partner Maria Quintero will co-present at the CLM CE/CLE webinar "Let's Go To Trial! This Is The Way!" on February 12, 2025.

Hinshaw partner Scott Seaman—co-chair of the firm's global Insurance Services Practice Group— is scheduled to co-present a CLE webinar titled "Environmental Insurance Coverage Under CGL, Property, and D&O Policies for PFASs, ESG, NRS, CERCLA, RCRA, OPA, and Others" on January 7, 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.

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.

The European Union Parliament officially endorsed a directive on November 24, 2020, concerning representative actions that will allow collective lawsuits to protect the combined interests of consumers for alleged violations of E.U. law in a broad range of areas, including data protection. The Collective Redress Directive requires E.U. Member States to implement within 24 months at least one effective procedural mechanism that will allow "qualified entities," such as consumer organizations, to bring representative lawsuits on behalf of consumers. The Directive advises that these qualified entities "should be independent and should not be influenced by persons other than consumers who have an economic interest in the bringing of a representative action, in particular by traders or hedge funds, including in the event of funding by third parties."

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:

The Illinois Department of Insurance (the "Department") recently released guidance to all regulated entities concerning vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Exchange Server installations. Issued on the heels of other state and federal agency warnings and directives, the guidance outlines pertinent details of the vulnerabilities and what successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could mean—namely "persistent system access and control of an enterprise network." Recognizing that servers may still be compromised even after March and April fixes have been applied, the Department urges regulated entities to:

The State of Connecticut’s Insurance Department (Department) has issued a Notice reminding all entities and persons licensed by the Department to use technology and Big Data responsibly and transparently and in full compliance with Federal and State anti-discrimination laws.

Read our white paper, "The Ultimate Social Inflation Survival Guide," to understand the complexities of social inflation and learn effective strategies for insurers and corporate policyholders to navigate its challenges in today's economic landscape.

Read part two of our white paper to learn the components of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and the impact on insurers and corporate policyholders under the second Trump Administration.

Explore the evolving insurance landscape and the implications of ESG changes under the second Trump Administration in part one of our white paper by Scott Seaman.

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.