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.

Scott Seaman, Hinshaw partner and Chicago-based co-chair of Hinshaw's Global Insurance Services Practice Group, and Diane Webster—partner-in-charge of Hinshaw's Chicago office—have published the second and final installment of their Law360 Expert Analysis series that discusses the highly successful plaintiff litigation "reptile theory" strategy. In this article, the authors focus on how insurers and corporate policyholders can counter reptile tactics.

Scott Seaman, Hinshaw partner and Chicago-based co-chair of Hinshaw's Global Insurance Services Practice Group, and Diane Webster—partner-in-charge of Hinshaw's Chicago office—co-authored an Expert Analysis byline in Law360 Insurance Authority titled "Taming Plaintiffs' Thriving 'Reptile' Tactics: Why It's Time." In part one of their two part analysis, they discuss the “dangerous double barrel of price level and social inflation” that insurers and their corporate policyholders are confronting for the first time. The article considers the interplay between social inflation—the increase in costs of defending and resolving claims—price level inflation, and the reptile theory adopted by plaintiffs' counsel.

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