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Ensuring corporate misconduct : how liability insurance undermines shareholder litigation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baker, Tom, 1959-
Other Authors: Griffith, Sean J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Executives' liability insurance > United States.
Executives' liability insurance > Law and legislation > United States.
Stockholders' derivative actions > United States.
Liability insurance > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Shareholder litigation
  • An introduction to directors' and officers' liability insurance
  • The puzzle of entity-level D&O coverage
  • Pricing and deterrence
  • Insurance monitoring and loss-prevention programs
  • The D&O insurer at defense and settlement
  • What matters in settlement?
  • Coverage defenses and disputes
  • Policy recommendations: improving deterrence.