As courts can be sharply divided in...

As courts can be sharply divided in their opinions, in the way that too are opinions surrounding the split earlier this year of the highly prosperous class-action firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hyne & Lerach LLP and its impact forward underwriters of directors and officers insurance.

Corporate America--and directors and officers insurers--now are facing "two 800-pound gorillas," said Mark Pruner vice president of marketing for RD Legal Funding, an Englewood N.J.-based company that provides post-settlement funding to class-action firms.

The split of the firm into sum of two units fierce competitors, one based onward the East Coast, the other