Hinshaw partners Scott Seaman and Jason Schulze have authored a new 13th Edition of the insurance law treatise, Allocation of Losses in Complex Insurance Coverage Claims, now available as a comprehensive two-volume set from Thomson Reuters.

Despite prolific media coverage, wide-ranging political rhetoric and government regulation, and enormous private and public expenditures concerning climate change, there is a dearth of decisional authority addressing insurance coverage for global warming or climate change claims. Earlier this month, the Hawaii Supreme Court issued a decision addressing two important coverage issues concerning underlying climate change claims: occurrence and pollution exclusion.

In a new article featured in several Mealey's publications, Scott Seaman and Gar Lauerman provide a comprehensive look into PFAS/forever chemical claims, including background on PFAS exposures, recent regulatory activities, PFAS litigation and trends, insurance coverage issues, and the large losses PFAS claims present to insurers and their policyholders.

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.