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Ensuring corporate misconduct : how liability insurance undermines shareholder litigation /

Shareholder litigation and class action suits play a key role in protecting investors and regulating big businesses. But Directors and Officers liability insurance shields corporations and their managers from the financial consequences of many illegal acts, as evidenced by the recent Enron scandal a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baker, Tom, 1959-
Otros Autores: Griffith, Sean J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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