E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 9, 2024

In Federal judge who ruled against Google is ‘taken aback’ by its efforts to avoid paper trail (abajournal.com) (Aug. 8, 2024), Debra Cassens Weiss reported on an information governance issue: “A federal judge who ruled that Google is a monopolist declined to sanction the search engine for failing to preserve internal chat messages, even though he criticized its policies intended to keep bad evidence out of litigation.” Ms.

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

Insurers face millions of dollars in claims after a foiled attack forced three Taylor Swift concerts in Austria to be canceled, though several providers will share out the hit, two people involved in insurance for her tour told Reuters.

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E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 9, 2024

In Kent v. Warner , 2024 WL 3639624 (D. Neb. Jul. 24, 2024), “Plaintiff, Vernie Kent, seeks to compel Defendant, Kade Warner, to produce a surveillance video Defendant’s attorney prepared in conjunction with this litigation.” The response to that motion was that “Defendant contends the surveillance video is covered by the work-product doctrine and, at a minimum, should not be produced until after he deposes Plaintiff.

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Friday released a statement on his latest administrative action designed to address the state’s homeowners insurance crisis.

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Litigation

Legal Dive

AUGUST 9, 2024

Some deals are on the FTC and DOJ's radars, but for now Microsoft and Apple are among those buying their way into key technology, an antitrust specialist says.

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

Hong Kong is seeing an influx of professionals from mainland China’s finance and tech sectors who are disillusioned with their career and salary prospects across the border.

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

McALLEN — A federal court struck down a regulatory agency’s authorization of two controversial, multi-billion-dollar gas export projects in far South Texas, one of which is already under construction.

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Complex Discovery

AUGUST 9, 2024

Editor’s Note: The recent exposure of a potentially record-breaking data breach involving Jerico Pictures Inc., operating under the name National Public Data (NPD), is a sobering reminder of the critical importance of data security in today’s digital age. With the personal information of nearly 2.9 billion individuals allegedly compromised, this incident underscores the far-reaching implications of lax data protection measures.

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

Rapper Nelly was arrested early Wednesday at a St. Louis-area casino, and the Missouri Highway Patrol said an officer found four illegal ecstasy pills on him. The rapper’s attorney said an “overzealous” officer targeted him and conducted an improper search.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 9, 2024

This week in Other Barks & Bites: a U.S. court rules Google violated antitrust law and operates a monopoly in the search engine and text advertising markets; Elon Musk swaps out legal team in a legal spat with OpenAI; and 84% of tech company executives who responded to a poll say they want changes to U.S. copyright law.

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Litigation

Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

Gone is the bullhorn. Instead, New York City emergency management officials have turned high-tech, using drones to warn residents about potential threatening weather.

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E-Discovery Team

AUGUST 9, 2024

Sal Khan is the CEO and visionary founder of the Khan Academy. He revolutionized education in 2006 by starting his online video classes that have now reached over 150 Million people worldwide. This got the attention of the founders of OpenAI. Before they released ChatGPT3.

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Education Technology 59

Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

Australia’s QBE Insurance Group on Friday reported a more than twofold jump in its first-half profit, boosted by higher income from premiums, but missed analysts’ view, sending its shares to over a six month low.

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Civil Litigation Brief

AUGUST 9, 2024

A report in Litigation Futures in August 2016 illustrates the need for “self protection” by lawyers in. The headline says it all “Insurance Fraudster who tried to blame his solicitor jailed for 18 months”. “IT WAS ALL MY.

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

An earthquake off the coast of Japan’s southern island of Kyushu prompted the government to issue its first-ever warning for a megaquake from an undersea trough running along a swath of the country’s coast.

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Legal Dive

AUGUST 9, 2024

Getting terms such as “blanket acceptance of updates” right is critical for organizations to protect their interests, as the CrowdStrike debacle shows.

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

Anti-theft software upgrades provided for Hyundai and Kia vehicles regularly targeted by thieves has cut theft rates by more than half, according to new research from the Highway Loss Data Institute.

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Securities Docket

AUGUST 9, 2024

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled fraud charges against Ideanomics, Inc., formerly known as Seven Stars Cloud Group, Inc., and its former Chairman and CEO, Zheng (Bruno) Wu, for misleading the public about the company’s financial performance between 2017 and 2019. The SEC also announced settled charges against Ideanomics’ current CEO, Alfred Poor, and former CFO, Federico Tovar, for their roles in the scheme.

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge in North Dakota has thrown out the remainder of a lawsuit by an Arizona man who alleged excessive force was used against him when he was protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline.

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Legal IT Insider

AUGUST 9, 2024

Aderant will be debuting new technology solutions at ILTACON 2024 in Nashville and spearheading an ILTA community discussion about law school/legal tech education with Vanderbilt Law School. The legal business […] The post ILTACON 24: Aderant to exhibit new tech including viAllocate appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

Delta Air Lines said on Thursday it is pursuing legal claims against CrowdStrike and Microsoft after a global outage last month caused mass flight cancellations, disrupting travel plans of 1.3 million customers and costing it at least $500 million.

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Legal Dive

AUGUST 9, 2024

While X leadership views the not-for-profit group’s shuttering as a victory, it’s not clear if the move will help it win back jumpy advertisers.

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

An Edmond, Oklahoma contractor with a history of workplace safety violations dating back to 2018, including three related to the dangers in underground trenches, was found disregarding U.S. Department of Labor regulations.

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Securities Docket

AUGUST 9, 2024

This is a reminder that the government will not hesitate to second-guess determinations of in-house teams on what constitutes material nonpublic information. This is especially true where the market moves in a defined way when the information at issue in the material nonpublic information analysis is released. Thus, in house teams should document their analysis on why a certain piece of information constitutes or does not constitute inside information.

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

La Jolla, California-based Palomar Holdings, Inc. reports it is buying First Indemnity of America Insurance Co. (FIA), a Morris Plains, New Jersey domiciled insurance carrier specializing in surety bonds for small to medium sized contractors primarily in the Northeast states.

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Securities Docket

AUGUST 9, 2024

Are ESG goals important? Of course, and the U.S., with its economic strength, culture of innovation and commitment to pluralism and the rule of law, has led the world in E, S and G advancement. But some challenges, notably the energy transition, are so complex and crucial to our country’s future that they belong in the hands of Congress and the White House—not a regulatory agency that has no expertise or authority in environmental, energy, defense or foreign-policy matters.

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

Reports from Gallagher Re and the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation suggest that Tropical Storm Debby will not be a heavy lift for property insurers and reinsurers.

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Securities Docket

AUGUST 9, 2024

In an unusual lawsuit that pairs individual wrongful termination allegations with class action securities law claims, a former employee and present shareholder of a unit of the UK-based publishing and data analytics firm RELX PLC alleges that the company fired him in retaliation for raising concerns about the company’s “greenwashing.” He also alleges that the company misled investors about the company’s climate commitments and its climate-related actions.

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

POOLER, Ga. (AP) — The water began seeping into Keon Johnson’s house late Monday night after Tropical Storm Debby had been dumping rain nearly nonstop throughout the day.

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Securities Docket

AUGUST 9, 2024

Advisers to the Biden administration stopped short of making any promises to crypto industry executives who voiced policy concerns, according to a participant on a Zoom call held Thursday. The White House advisers didn’t discuss any policy changes with the group, which included Coinbase Global Inc., Kraken and Ripple Lab officials. An earlier discussion was held in July.

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

A tornado threat is expected today from the Mid-Atlantic states northward into eastern New York, according to the National Weather Service.

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Securities Docket

AUGUST 9, 2024

A virtual confab designed to repair relations between the crypto industry and the Democratic Party turned ugly Thursday morning, underscoring the uphill battle progressive crypto advocates are having trying to glean industry support for the presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris, Fox Business has learned. Attendees from the crypto side included billionaire tech entrepreneur and crypto investor Mark Cuban, SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci, venture capitalist and Democratic donor Ron

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 9, 2024

TULSA, Okla.

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