Member News
Ned Currie Receive Multiple Honors
The Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association presented Ned Currie of Currie Johnson & Myers, P.A. with the 2021 Defense Lawyer of the Year award; in 2016 the MDLA bestowed him with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Best Lawyers in America selected Ned as Mississippi’s 2021 “Lawyer of the Year” for Insurance Law. He received the same Best Lawyers distinction in 2012
U.S. District Court Grants Motion for Summary Judgement and Dismisses Target's Claim
On February 8, 2021, Meagher + Geer attorney Chuck Spevacek and his team made news heard around the insurance world when they obtained on behalf of two Chubb entities – ACE American Insurance Company and ACE Property & Casualty Insurance Company – an order from United States District Court for the District of Minnesota granting their motion for summary judgment and dismissing the claim of Target Corporation for insurance coverage for losses arising out of its 2013 data breach. Click here for more info.
Robinson+Cole Elects Rhonda J. Tobin Managing Partner
Robinson+Cole’s partnership has elected Rhonda J. Tobin as its next Managing Partner, effective March 1. Tobin will be the first woman to lead the 175-year old AmLaw 200 firm, and will succeed Stephen E. Goldman, who has led the firm since the beginning of 2016. Click here for more.
ACCC Fellows Recognized as Agents of Change in Insurance Law
In the “Insurance Law Trailblazer” inaugural list published by The National Law Journal, Fellows John Buchanan III, Linda Kornfeld, John H. Mathias Jr., Sherilyn Pastor and Rhonda Tobin were included in the list.
