Insurance Journal

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The National Rifle Association (NRA) must reform its operations to conform with New York’s not-for-profit law and two of its former executives must pay the NRA $6.35 million in damages plus interest. That is the outcome of the latest battle …

Court Rules 98

Court Rules 98

Insurance Journal

JULY 17, 2024

million) to about 2,200 former workers after a Quebec court issued a ruling in their class-action lawsuit against the airline. Air Canada may be forced to pay at least C$100 million ($73.2 The amount would cover lost wages, lost benefits, …

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Court Rules 103

Insurance Journal

JULY 17, 2024

Constitution and the Virginia Constitution, a Virginia appeals court has ruled. The Virginia Court of Appeals found that the … A priest’s defamation claim against his bishop is barred by the religious liberty protections in the First Amendment of the U.S.

Court Rules 102

Court Rules 102

Insurance Journal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

federal appeals court on Thursday revived a defamation lawsuit accusing CNN of defaming Project Veritas in its explanation of why the conservative group, which is often accused of using deceptive tactics, was suspended from Twitter in 2021. The …

Court Rules 97

Court Rules 97

MyCase

AUGUST 23, 2021

To complicate matters further, court rules and deadlines change often, which means that even more time is required to constantly re-visit whether court rules have changed. Say goodbye to manual deadline calculations, court date tracking, and the tedious task of ensuring that court rule sets haven’t changed.

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Court Rules Case Management Insurance 98

Insurance Journal

AUGUST 28, 2024

appeals court has revived a lawsuit against TikTok by the mother of a 10-year-old girl who died after taking part in a viral “blackout challenge” in which users of the social media platform were dared to choke themselves …

Court Rules 66

Court Rules 66

Insurance Journal

JULY 26, 2024

A bill (SB2979) amending Illinois’ Biometric Information and Privacy Act (“BIPA”), passed by both houses of the legislature on May 16 and now on Governor Pritzker’s desk, effectively overturns a recent Illinois Supreme Court ruling that could have had a …

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Court Rules Litigation 110

Insurance Journal

JULY 30, 2024

Consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled last week, rejecting claims by a restaurant patron who suffered serious medical complications from getting a bone stuck in his throat. Michael …

Court Rules 105

Court Rules 105

Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A federal appeals court has upheld a district court ruling that a wholesale distributor of plumbing supplies has wrongly exempted its inside sales representatives from overtime pay for years. The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals denied F.W. Webb’s request for …

Court Rules 105

Court Rules 105

Next Generation E-Discovery Law & Tech Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Arch Insurance Company is a recent decision focused mostly on issues and challenges related to preservation of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) in a large enterprise. It is an instructive case for in-house counsel, as it demonstrates how avoidable eDiscovery failures can lead to potentially devastating court sanctions.

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Tesco was not entitled to terminate some employees’ contracts and offer to rehire them on less favorable terms, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. Shopworkers’ union Usdaw took legal action against Britain’s biggest retailer after Tesco sought to …

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Retail Court Rules 105

Insurance Journal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The Ohio Supreme Court ruled last Tuesday that the state’s product liability law prohibits counties from bringing public nuisance claims against national pharmaceutical chains as they did as part of national opioid litigation, a decision that …

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Pharmaceuticals Court Rules Litigation 91

Insurance Journal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

A firm’s use of software that tracks users’ activity on its website does not violate a state law against wiretapping, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. While the state law against wiretapping prohibits intercepting communications, the law is ambiguous …

Court Rules 59

Court Rules 59

Insurance Journal

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A Brazilian federal court ruled miners Vale, BHP Group and their joint venture Samarco are not criminally liable for the deadly 2015 Fundao tailings dam collapse, according to a statement from the court on Thursday. The dam collapse at an …

Court Rules 98

Court Rules 98

Insurance Journal

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Courts across the country have overwhelmingly ruled in favor of insurance carriers in claims disputes following the government-ordered closures of businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The North Carolina Supreme Court last week bucked that trend, becoming just the second state …

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Insurance Court Rules 98

Insurance Journal

JULY 11, 2024

appeals court ruled on Wednesday. Honeywell did not violate workplace anti-discrimination laws by firing a white engineer who refused to participate in mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion training after the Black Lives Matter movement began, a U.S. The 7th U.S.

Court Rules 81

Court Rules 81

Insurance Journal

AUGUST 14, 2024

the Delaware Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, rejecting arguments that the payment was a windfall. Five law firms should receive $267 million in legal fees for obtaining a $1 billion settlement for shareholders of Dell Technologies DELL.N, The fee is …

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Court Rules Technology 69

Complex Discovery

JULY 9, 2024

Coinbase has also filed additional legal actions against the SEC and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, seeking compliance with Freedom of Information Act requests related to cryptocurrency rule-making.

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Complex Discovery

JULY 12, 2024

Supreme Court to protect its corporate records from disclosure, citing a lower court ruling that challenges the sanctity of attorney-client privilege. Purdue, currently engaged in renewed settlement negotiations, faces increased pressure from a court-appointed committee of creditors. has petitioned the U.S.

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Pharmaceuticals Settlement Negotiations Litigation Mediation 110

Insurance Journal

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Insurers often include exclusions within their liability policies to prohibit coverage for claims arising out of pollution exposure. The exact wording of the exclusion can differ significantly, but the key issue is whether the underlying allegations fall within the scope …

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Insurance Court Rules 59

Law and Daily Life

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Specifically, Nielsen claimed that the Church spent tithing funds on the development of the City Creek Mall and to bail out the Beneficial Life Insurance Company. He alleged that tithing funds were used to finance the City Creek Mall development and to bail out a troubled for-profit life insurance company owned by the Church.

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Evidence Court Rules Objections Construction 61

WA Bar News

JUNE 11, 2024

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(c)(2) is largely to the same effect, noting that “[a]n objection must be stated concisely in a nonargumentative and nonsuggestive manner.” London Market Insurance , in turn, involved impeding a deposition through repetitive form objections and related colloquies. Washington RPC 3.4(a)

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Depositions Witnesses Objections Discovery 98

Destination Articles Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Furthermore, many state and local court rules now integrate provisions that encourage or mandate mediation, particularly in family law, real estate, and small business disputes. Reduces legal expenses Quicker compensation Less adversarial, reducing stress for claimants How Lawyers Can Improve Their Mediation Skills?

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Mediation Arbitration Education Real Estate 52

Destination Articles Blog

MARCH 16, 2024

Tax Court ruled that a contingent fee deferral arrangement successfully deferred taxation. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed , and since then, the IRS has repeatedly referenced those rulings without question. They can “contribute” an uncapped amount of fees into a vehicle similar to a 401(k).

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Construction Court Rules Insurance 52

MyCase

AUGUST 16, 2022

The article also states, “It is critically important to understand the labyrinth of potentially applicable ethics rules that intertwine with certain court rules on retirement.”. In addition to changing your status, you’ll also need to inform your local bar association(s) and any insurance carriers about your retirement. .

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Finance and Banking Healthcare Depositions Court Rules 52

RPC Strategies

MAY 1, 2023

What it won’t do is discriminate between reliable and unreliable data, incorporate changes required by recent court rulings, comply with recent statutory mandates, or conform to context-specific or unique jurisdictional rules. At least it won’t do so yet.

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Discovery Legal Research Litigation Technology 52

Expert Witness Blog

MAY 20, 2024

Summary: Labor Economics Expert Witness testimony is allowed because the court ruled that her expert opinions on the calculation of damages will help the jury. Facts: This case ( EEOC v.

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Witnesses Litigation Court Rules Insurance 52

Legally Speaking

JANUARY 21, 2023

Clio also offers collaboration tools that allow multiple members of a legal team to work together, as well as integrations with other legal-specific technologies such as court rules and e-filing. How much does it cost to open a law firm (including professional indemnity insurance, essential costs, and more).

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Legal Services Technology Insurance Court Rules 40

Insurance Journal

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The province of British Columbia can bring a class action lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies for opioid harms on behalf of multiple governments across Canada, the country’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday. In 2018, BC sued more than 40 drug manufacturers, …

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Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Court Rules Litigation 92

Insurance Journal

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The US Supreme Court left intact a ruling that curbs the Justice Department’s ability to use federal antitrust law to prosecute people and companies for bid-rigging, price-fixing and other collusion. The justices, without comment, turned away a Biden administration appeal …

Court Rules 98

Court Rules 98

Insurance Journal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Supreme Court rulings that they say can be used to take power away from federal agencies and … Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said the government efficiency panel that President-elect Donald Trump has named them to lead will follow recent U.S.

Court Rules 97

Court Rules 97

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

And then I was part of the founding team, along with a few other ex McKinsey colleagues of a company called zesty AI, where I was the founding AI engineer and, and head of AI for XSD, where we focused on building enterprise AI models for the US property insurance industry. And then you have a document comparison, and a Boolean search tool.

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Energy and Utilities Legal Research Insurance Depositions 59

Insurance Journal

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Supreme Court on Friday kept on hold in roughly half the country new regulations about sex discrimination in education, rejecting a Biden administration request. The court voted 5-4, with conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch joining the three liberal justices in …

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Education Court Rules 105

Insurance Journal

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The US Supreme Court let the Environmental Protection Agency move ahead with its stringent new emissions limits for power plants, rebuffing businesses and Republican-run states that complained the rule will impose exorbitant compliance costs. The high court order is a …

Court Rules 105

Court Rules 105

Practice of Law

JUNE 25, 2024

Other states have attempted to block or restrict treatments for trans patients with legislation, only to find those measures invalidated by courts. Clayton County , when the Supreme Court ruled that employers could not discriminate against employees on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

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