CFO.com journalist Roy Harris writes, "Like all rules empowering minority shareholders, the new proxy access regulations from the Securities and Exchange Commission present some worries for companies. But will the measures — which ease the way for dissidents to nominate board candidates and to bring proposals to a vote — necessitate changes in corporate directors' and officers' (D&O) insurance, such as increasing protection limits?"

See what Dorsey and Whitney Partner Timothy Hearn has to say.