The insurance industry routinely attacks plaintiff’s lawyers for trying to win money for clients. But insurers are seldom shy about being a plaintiff to try to recover their own money, including for example seeking legislation to grease the skids for their claims. The zeal to recover money may pay off in the 9/11 litigation due to a recent 2d Circuit ruling on FSIA claims. Last week, a panel of 2d Circuit judges explicitly disagreed with a sibling panel and allowed FSIA clai

Walter Olson’s Overlawyered blog post steers readers to a New York Times article with a link to the US government’s brief opposing suit against Saudi Arabia for 9/11. Interesting reading on the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. #FSIA #Sovereigns