Jeffrey Liesemer to Speak at ABA Panel on Insurance Basics for Business Lawyers

Jeffrey A. Liesemer will take part in a panel presentation entitled "Insurance Basics for Business Lawyers" at the spring 2014 meeting of the American Bar Association Business Law Section.  The panelists will explore the basic, and not so basic, insurance issues that every business lawyer should be able to identify.  Expected topics to be covered by the panel include:  insurance proceeds as property of the bankruptcy estate, insurance policies as executory contracts, policy buybacks under Bankruptcy Code section 363, the impact of the automatic stay, and the assignment of insurance rights to asbestos settlement trusts.