Wake Up Call: Insurance Lawyers Eye ‘Bonanza’ After Hurricane

In today’s column, DocuSign is laying off 9% of its staff, or about 670 jobs, in a post-Covid shift; several major law firms advised on Porsche’s 78 billion euro initial public offering; and a federal circuit judge said he will no longer recruit clerks from Yale Law.

• Leading off, as Florida starts to pick itself up from Hurricane Ian, a spokesman for the Insurance Information Institute said early estimates put property losses from the storm at $30 billion, the highest in US history. That’s very bad news for insurers, but insurance litigators will get a huge boost in their business. ...