Law Sites
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Multiple lawyers who are using the payments app Venmo in their law practices are exposing client information to the public — and they may not even know it. These accounts expose client names and sometimes other details, such as payment amounts, the nature of the representation, or even the client’s financial straits. Model Rule 1.
Attorney at Work
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Jay Harrington | One great way to add value for business clients is having a Q4 “off the clock” meeting to discuss the coming year. The post Strengthening Client Relationships: The Power of Q4 Non-Billable Meetings appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
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Law Sites
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
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E-Discovery LLC
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Khan v. County of Cook , 2024 WL 3984263 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 29, 2024), rejected “oceanic” discovery requests, while permitting reasonable ones. In Khan , the hospital for the Cook County jail had terminated a dentist, alleging malfeasance. The dentist disputed the allegation, claimed racial bias was the cause, and sued. The court wrote: “Not surprisingly, discovery in this case, like ‘the course of true love, [has been anything but] smooth.
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Civil Litigation Brief
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
I was devastated to learn of the death of Simon Mullings over the weekend. The tributes that have been paid from housing lawyers and many others have reflected his position as one of the foremost housing practitioners and campaigners. Giles.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
In an unassuming white and blue office building in Freeport, a few miles into Nassau County, sits the headquarters of American Transit Insurance Co.
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Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Top reinsurers are showing increasing – but disciplined – appetite for natural catastrophe risks as a result of rising demand, improved pricing, more favorable terms and conditions, and improving investment income, according to a report published by S&P Global Ratings.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
If the essence of patent rights—the right to exclude—is ever to be restored post-eBay, a new legislative vehicle for doing so has arrived in Congress. The Realizing Engineering, Science, and Technology Opportunities by Restoring Exclusive (RESTORE) Patent Rights Act is bipartisan and bicameral, as well as short and sweet—less than four pages.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Trust impacts customer satisfaction, loyalty and brand advocacy more than other factors when small businesses choose a commercial insurance provider. J.D. Power’s 2024 U.S.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today affirmed a district court judgment that granted a group of book publishers’ motion for summary judgment that the Internet Archive (IA) infringed their copyright in 127 books via IA’s “Free Digital Library.” As predicted by author Devlin Hartline in a February article for IPWatchdog, the Second Circuit agreed with the publishers—Hachette Book Group, Inc; Harper Collins Publishers LLC; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; and Penguin Random House LL
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Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
As the planet warms and more natural disasters occur, insurers are facing an increasingly difficult time. In 2023, for the fourth year in a row, global insured catastrophe losses exceeded $100 billion.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), in a precedential decision, today rejected Planmeca Inc. USA’s attempt to argue that a person of ordinary skill in the art (POSITA) must have had the requisite experience to qualify as an expert at the time of invention, rather than as of the time of testimony. Judge Stoll authored the opinion.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
CRC Group, a wholesale specialty insurance distributor with headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama, has added new faces to its team in the Southeast. Sam Rector joined the Nashville office as underwriting team leader.
Legal Dive
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The appeals court reversed a prior dismissal, ruling environmental nonprofit Earth Island Institute made plausible allegations the beverage company overstates its environmental efforts.
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Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A-(Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to “a-” (Excellent) from “a” (Excellent) of IMT Insurance Company and its affiliate, Wadena Insurance Company.
Joseph, Hollander & Craft
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Webinar Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 Webinar Time: 12:00–12:50 p.m. Location: Zoom Please join your Kansas and Missouri Bar colleagues for a complimentary CLE webinar: Trial Publicity Ethics and the Making of a Crime Documentary Sponsored by Joseph, Hollander & Craft LLC Approved for 1.0 hour of ethics CLE credit in Kansas & Missouri REGISTER NOW Resources PARTICIPATION GUIDE Program Description Jess Hoeme of Joseph, Hollander & Craft was the lead trial attorney defending Well
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Florida authorities have charged a Miami-area nurse practitioner and two others with creating false medical reports and attempting to defraud an auto insurance carrier out of more than $47,000.
Securities Docket
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against three affiliated registrants, Commission-registered broker-dealer Nationwide Planning Associates, Inc. and investment adviser NPA Asset Management, LLC, and state-registered investment adviser Blue Point Strategic Wealth Management, LLC, for impeding brokerage customers and advisory clients from reporting securities law violations to the SEC.
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Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
RAGLEY, La. (AP) — Investigators are trying to determine the cause of an explosion that destroyed a southwest Louisiana home, killing a teenage boy from Alabama and injuring five other people. Louisiana State Fire Marshal Bryan J.
Securities Docket
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Fenwick today announced Benjamin Kingsley has joined the firm as a partner in its securities litigation & enforcement practice, with a focus on government investigations, regulatory enforcement matters, and complex civil litigation. He is based in the firm’s San Francisco office. Source: Fenwick Expands Government Investigations Practice with Former Assistant U.S.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
A woman was intoxicated and using a partially automated driving system when she caused a March highway crash in Philadelphia that killed two people, authorities said as they announced homicide charges against the driver.
Securities Docket
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
In a move that further strengthens Pillsbury’s Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense practice, the firm is welcoming former Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Chris Caffarone. Caffarone has served as an AUSA for more than 15 years and brings exceptional experience leading cases involving complex financial fraud and public corruption.
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Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze concluded on Wednesday that a “culmination of decades of failure” by the government and the construction industry ultimately led to the disaster that killed 72 people.
Securities Docket
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against six nationally recognized statistical rating organizations, or NRSROs, for significant failures by the firms and their personnel to maintain and preserve electronic communications. The firms admitted the facts set forth in their respective SEC orders; acknowledged that their conduct violated recordkeeping provisions of the federal securities laws; agreed to pay combined civil penalties of more than $49 million, as detailed be
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Specialist Risk Group (SRG), the London-based insurance intermediary, announced the acquisition of Capulus, a specialist motor fleet managing general agent (MGA). Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
Securities Docket
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Maria Dulce Pino Dickerson and her companies Creative Legal Fundings in CA and The Ubiquity Group LLC with raising approximately $7 million from more than 130 investors through a fraudulent securities offering targeting members of the Filipino-American community across the United States. According to the SEC’s complaint, from approximately March 2021 through May 2023, Sacramento, California resident Dickerson convinced investors to acquire int
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Ryan Specialty said it completed its acquisition of certain assets of Greenhill Underwriting Insurance Services from Alera Group, Inc, effective Sept. 1. The deal was previously announced last month. Alera acquired Greenhill in 2022.
Legal Dive
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The European Commission lacked oversight authority to examine the proposed sale of a cancer-detection company to biotech company Illumina, the court found.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that roughly 150 older workers who were laid off by social media platform X when Elon Musk acquired the company can sue for age discrimination as a class, exposing the company to …
Legal IT Insider
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
In a year of big advances for legal Gen AI tools, it is nonetheless clear that Stanford University’s controversial paper on hallucination continues to cast a long shadow over product […] The post Real world reflections on Gen AI hallucination and risk appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Insurance Journal
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Volkswagen AG’s ex-Chief Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn denied duping customers and taking too long to alert markets about diesel-emission cheating, telling a German criminal court he was never properly informed about the vast scale of the scam.
Practice of Law
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
It’s been nearly a year since the government of California started legal proceedings against the world’s biggest oil and gas companies. The Golden State accused Exxon, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute (API) of decades of deception and environmental harm. Now, it looks like that lawsuit might finally be coming to a close, but without a trial win for either side.
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