Amy Elizabeth Stewart, of Dallas’ Amy Stewart PC, will present “Insurance 101: Fundamentals of Liability Insurance for In-House Counsel” to the Dallas Bar Asociation’s Corporate Counsel Section on Tuesday, Nov. 6 at noon at the Belo Mansion, 2101 Ross Ave. The one-hour presentation provides one hour of MCLE credit. There is no charge for DBA members, although there is a lunch buffet available for purchase. Non-members must pay a fee in order to receive MCLE credit. For more info ...

According to Business Insurance (free registration required), Aon Risk Solutions is teaming up with RPX Insurance Service Inc. to offer up to $2.5 million in coverage against non-practicing entities, a.k.a. patent trolls, the bane of the technology industry. Patent trolls--firms that are established for the sole reason of purchasing patents and suing over their alleged infringement--are a growing problem, Business Insurance reports: According to RPX, the number of patent infringement ...

For those of you waiting breathlessly for the Federal Insurance Office’s reports on reinsurance and insurance regulation, you may want to find a comfortable chair. Some analysts predict the overdue reports probably won’t be coming out until after the November election. Apparently, nobody is looking to alienate state regulators or the insurance industry at this delicate time. Why poke a bear if you don’t have to? Nevermind that these reports were due month ...

DALLAS--Texas Super Lawyers has included insurance coverage lawyer Amy Elizabeth Stewart, of Dallas’ Amy Stewart PC, on its 2012 list of the state’s most highly regarded attorneys. This is Ms. Stewart’s fourth consecutive year on the list. She had previously been named to the Super Lawyers’ Rising Stars list. The complete list appears in the October issues of Texas Monthly and Texas Super Lawyers magazines.   Fewer than 5 percent of all eligible Texas attorneys are named ...

Insurance giant AIG, the company that gave us the “too-big-to-fail” ethos in the first place, was notified by the feds this week that it may officially be deemed too big to fail and, thus, subject to enhanced scrutiny and regulatory oversight. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, “too big to fail” is the nomenclature commonly applied to banks and other financial institutions the failure of which would significantly threaten the United States' financial stabil ...