Law Sites
OCTOBER 28, 2024
At the Everlaw Summit in San Francisco last week, the annual customer conference of the e-discovery company Everlaw, founder and CEO AJ Shankar delivered a keynote address in which he announced the general availability of three generative AI features the company first introduced last year and had been developing in beta ever since.
Lawmatics
OCTOBER 28, 2024
This month, we’re pulling back the curtain on the workflows and go-to tools that help three attorneys — and Lawmatics power users — run their firms with efficiency. These experts share their secrets to mastering three critical stages of the client journey: attracting qualified leads, nurturing them into clients, and onboarding new clients seamlessly.
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IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 28, 2024
As artificial intelligence (AI) technology continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, it brings with it numerous questions regarding the application of intellectual property (IP) laws. The intersection of AI and IP raises critical considerations about the rights of creators and innovators, the interpretation and enforcement of established laws, and the potential impact on the future of creativity and innovation.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
More than 100 people were arrested late last week in storm-ravaged Pinellas County, Florida, charged with looting homes and working as unlicensed contractors, two weeks after Hurricane Milton forced many residents to evacuate.
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IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 28, 2024
One of the more interesting public policy reads of 2024 comes from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), whose “Drug Patent and Exclusivity Study” effectively debunks the false narratives and bogus statistics that have been levied against pharmaceutical patents with significant effect in recent years. The inescapable takeaway from the USPTO study is that activists have manipulated data to inflate the effects of patents and other exclusive rights on competition.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
A woman died in an outdoor fire in Massachusetts at an encampment in Millbury on Saturday night and crews on Sunday were still fighting a large overnight brush fire in Salem as dry and windy conditions have raised the risk …
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Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Lyft Inc. agreed to pay $2.1 million to resolve a lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission accusing the ride-hailing company of deceiving drivers about how much they would earn when consumer demand picked up after the pandemic.
Complex Discovery
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Editor’s Note: Five Great Reads is a monthly newsletter that focuses on cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery. This month’s edition offers timely insights into the evolving realms of cybersecurity, AI, and data governance—fields where challenges are growing in both complexity and scale. From declining internet freedoms to the ethical integration of AI in workplaces, the topics we cover here underscore the responsibilities that come with technological progress.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
U.S. nuclear regulators kicked off a long-winding process to consider Constellation Energy’s unprecedented plans to restart its retired Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in an initial public meeting held on Friday.
Legal Dive
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The dual complaints in federal court target sellers of fake reviews for retailers and local businesses that market on the web giants.
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Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
A federal appeals court has affirmed that a homeowners insurance policy does not cover the theft of cryptocurrency because the loss of a digital currency does not involve a “direct physical loss” as required by the policy.
Legal Dive
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The airline seeks to recover damages of more than $500 million in the aftermath of a disruptive IT outage in July. The software provider is looking to hold its liability to the terms of its service agreement.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Costly reinsurance, inflation, tough regulations, and increasing weather-related claims are driving up property insurance prices—and in turn, that is impacting commercial real estate returns, valuations, and transactions, a new report shows.
Practice Panther
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Managing legal client intake can be a balancing act for many attorneys. Ask too much, and clients may abandon the form halfway through; ask too little, and you end up scrambling for details right when you’re deep into a case. Even seemingly minor oversights — like not getting a client’s preferred communication method or not capturing all opposing parties involved — can lead to delays, frustrating back-and-forth communication, or gaps in your records.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
After building it business up in the United Kingdom, Broker Insights said it is ready to officially bring its commercial insurance placement analytics to the United States.
Civil Litigation Brief
OCTOBER 28, 2024
I am grateful to my colleagues Sam Karim KC and Fay Collinson for pointing out the decision of BJB, In the Matter Of [2024] EWCOP 59 (T2). In that case HHJ Hilder granted the claimant’s application that she be released.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Executive Summary: During the period 2013 through 2018, the U.S. did not become less litigious nor did Atlantic sea surface temperatures get less warm. Yet rates for U.S. excess liability and Atlantic hurricane both reduced, observe the co-founders of UWX.
Securities Docket
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Federal prosecutors plan to offer a plea deal to an Alabama man accused of participating in the January hack of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account and a fake social media post about authorization of the first-ever spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds. “We will extend a plea,” assistant US attorney Kevin Rosenberg told US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Friday at a hearing in Washington federal court.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Brazil on Friday signed a 170 billion reais ($29.85 billion) compensation agreement with miners BHP, Vale, and Samarco for the Mariana dam collapse in 2015, one of the country’s worst environmental disasters.
Civil Litigation Brief
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Australia and looking at the guidance given by the Hon Chief Justice Pat Keane in his keynote address to the Australian Lawyers Alliance Queensland State Conference in February 2013. (At the moment I cannot find a link to the original.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Novatae Risk Group, headquartered in Dallas, named John Catrabone as vice president of carrier relations. Based in Ohio, Catrabone comes to Novatae with more than 30 years of experience in various insurance industry sectors.
Legal Dive
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra called out bank litigants that sued over the rule, saying he didn’t think they’d even read it.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The world is on course to miss a target for cutting emissions this decade by an overwhelming amount, new UN analysis shows, meaning more dangerous global warming is likely.
Legal Dive
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The court held that an employer’s speech, even that which presumably violates the NLRA, is protected by the First Amendment.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Moves by major U.S. fast-food chains to temporarily pull fresh onions off their menus on Thursday, after the vegetable was named as the likely source of an E.
Legal Dive
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The firefighting foam manufacturer will use some of the funds from the settlement to pay its creditors as part of a bankruptcy plan.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
International General Insurance Holdings Ltd. announced it will move its London operations to new offices on the 15th floor of the so-called “Walkie-Talkie” building at 20 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 3BY on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024.
Legal Dive
OCTOBER 28, 2024
More than just the contract terms, counsel should know the strategy driving the deal, according to Robert Ball of Enlace Health.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
This edition of Interational People Moves details appointments at the brokers Price Forbes and WTW. A summary of these new hires follows here.
Securities Docket
OCTOBER 28, 2024
As Ervine noted in the post, the dissenting commissioners take the position that the SEC is regulating by enforcement action and cited immaterial undisclosed details to support the charges. The dissent asserts that the level of detail the SEC charges that the four companies omitted will motivate companies to fill their disclosures with “immaterial details about an incident, or worse, provide disclosures [about] immaterial incidents.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Liberty Mutual Insurance today said it expects up to $900 million in losses from hurricanes Helene and Milton.
Securities Docket
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The US Securities Exchange Commission says Elon Musk’s offer to pay $2,923 isn’t enough for standing up three agency lawyers who were set to question him last month in an investigation of his 2022 purchase of Twitter Inc. Instead of rubber-stamping the billionaire’s proposal to reimburse the agency for flying the lawyers to Los Angeles in September while he was off in Florida to watch a SpaceX rocket launch, a judge should formally sanction Musk so he realizes his conduct is not a “trivial matte
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The Texas Department of Insurance approved an application from Porch Group Inc. to form and license Porch Insurance Reciprocal Exchange, a homeowners insurance reciprocal exchange.
Practice Panther
OCTOBER 28, 2024
A legal case management system acts as a supporting pillar for each step of a case, from intake to invoice. Typically, these systems come in the form of software, which is also known as legal case management software (LCMS). The main functions of LCMS are to: Manage multiple aspects of your firm’s caseload, including billable hours Provide records for your firm’s cases, expenses, and various business KPIs Organize, share, and protect your firm’s information and resources It’s no exaggeration to
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Gas stoves in European homes are associated with tens of thousands of premature deaths, a study has found.
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