Check out the brand new trailer for director Ruben Östlund’s FORCE MAJEURE. A critical favorite at this year’s Cannes Festival, where it took the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard, this wickedly funny ...

Force majeure clauses in contracts help companies avoid liabilities from unforeseen events. COVID-19 led many firms to invoke force majeure due to disrupted operations. Investors must consider force ...

Ruben Östlund’s “Force Majeure” was 2014’s finest dark comedy of utter discomfort. You will cringe, and squirm, and perhaps break out in a cold sweat, but you’ll be happy you stuck with it. Running ...

Cost increases, like tariffs, are often considered by courts to be foreseeable business risks that do not support invoking a force majeure defense. Therefore, it would be unlikely that an impacted ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the President of Diversified, a CFP and author. In legal contracts, there is a clause called force majeure, which removes ...

This article provides a look at the roots of the force majeure doctrine, leading up to the recent Second Circuit decision 'JN Contemporary Art v. Phillips Auctioneers', where the court "remains ...