Insurance
Apr. 21, 2000
Staying Afloat
Practitioner: Insurance Law By Michael L. Donovan and Andrew W. Miller Companies and governments spent hundreds of billions of dollars to correct computer systems in the face of predicted disruptions as a result of the millennium bug. Some - notably Xerox, GTE and Nike - are looking to first-party insurance to pay these costs. These corporations have filed suit against their insurers, asserting claims for hundreds of millions of dollars.