Attorney at Work
JULY 11, 2024
Streamline your time-entry process and you will stop losing money. Here's how. The post 5 Tips to Make Time Entry Less Painful for Lawyers appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
Law Sites
JULY 11, 2024
The American Arbitration Association today announced the launch of a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to enable parties with multiple arbitration cases to streamline their case administration. The APIs will allow parties to send and receive documents, file new cases, and track case-related activities.
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IP Watchdog
JULY 11, 2024
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal published a Director’s blog post today addressing the Office’s current backlog of patent and trademark applications, which the latest USPTO data shows to be 785,387 unexamined applications/ 25.6 months total pendency for patents and 14.5 months total pendency for trademarks. Vidal said in her blog post that “unpredictable macro effects, including a pandemic that had an outsized impact on our application inventories, have created an ‘i
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
North Carolina authorities have charged one woman and are on the lookout for another in connection with a scheme to defraud a State Farm insurance company of more than $195,000.
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IP Watchdog
JULY 11, 2024
Bette Midler. Vanna White. Marylin Monroe. Each of these women has undoubtedly shaped pop culture in some meaningful way. Perhaps what is lesser known is that litigation surrounding each of these women has shaped the legal world's understanding of an individual's right to publicity. Many states still do not formally recognize a right to publicity, while other states that do recognize such a right are not uniform.
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
Heffernan Insurance Brokers acquired Costello Insurance Associates in Tempe, Arizona. Pat Costello and his team of five employees will continue to service their new and existing customers Costello services clients throughout the U.S.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
Days after Hurricane Beryl crashed through the city, Houston is still grappling with the aftershocks. Large swaths of America’s fourth-largest city are still without power, shutting stores and snarling traffic at non-functioning lights.
Complex Discovery
JULY 11, 2024
Editor’s Note: The tech industry is facing intensified scrutiny as recent events underscore the critical importance of data privacy and cybersecurity. Nyob, a prominent privacy advocacy group, has lodged a formal complaint against Xandr, a Microsoft subsidiary, for severe breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This complaint reveals significant shortcomings in Xandr’s compliance with data access and erasure requests, posing serious implications for digital adverti
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
A workers’ compensation insurer is entitled to continue to receive reimbursements from the Massachusetts second injury fund even after it stops writing business in the state, the state’s high court has ruled in an opinion reversing itself on the issue.
Legal Dive
JULY 11, 2024
The court disrupted regulatory agencies with its major business rulings, although federal courts may need to offer new stability, according to a legal panel.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara today ordered insurers to preserve residential property insurance coverage for roughly 46,000 policyholders affected by the Thompson Fire in Butte County. The move follows an emergency declaration over the fire from Gov.
Legal IT Insider
JULY 11, 2024
BRYTER, the no-code platform for law firms and in-house legal departments, today (11 July) officially launches a new product-suite: AI Agents, which help legal teams to automate repetitive tasks such […] The post BRYTER launches AI Agents with major brand backing appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
A new Vermont-based captive insurer is promising to provide insurance for New York affordable rental housing buildings at a time when advocates say coverage is difficult to afford or obtain. The Milford Street Association Captive Insurance Co.
Civil Litigation Brief
JULY 11, 2024
In Broom v Aguilar [2024] EWHC 1764 (Ch) HHJ Paul Matthews (sitting as a High Court Judge) decided that a claim form had not been properly served when it was served at a time that the defendant was living abroad.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
An Iowa woman was sentenced on July 2, 2024 after pleading guilty to Tampering With Records (Aggravated Misdemeanor) following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau.
Legal Dive
JULY 11, 2024
With federal regulators and states clamping down on the practice, companies might take a hard look at how they’re presenting information on their websites and in their apps.
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
Insurers in the United States may take a hit of about $2.7 billion from damage caused by Hurricane Beryl, catastrophe modeling company Karen Clark & Co (KCC) said on Thursday. About 1.
Legal Dive
JULY 11, 2024
Bill Hwang was found guilty of 10 out of 11 criminal counts, while former CFO Patrick Halligan was found guilty of all three counts he faced, including fraud and racketeering.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
SageSure, a managing general agent specializing in catastrophe-exposed markets in the Southeast and other states, along with its affiliated Anchor Re captive reinsurer and SURE reciprocal, announced they have secured a $60 million catastrophe bond, three months after SageSure closed …
Securities Docket
JULY 11, 2024
“It’s not like the tulip bubble or the tech bubble,” said Alisa Levin, co-founder of the legal search firm Greene-Levin-Snyder, adding that it could slow or stall but “I don’t think it’s going to burst.” Not long ago, $10 million annually was an astronomical sum for even the highest-profile lateral partners. More recently, $20 million—once “unheard of”—seemed to be the standard of top partner pay at the most elite firms.
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
Authorities in Western states warned of the rising risk of wildfires as hot conditions and low humidity dry out the landscape amid a protracted heat wave that is expected to bake much of the U.S. again Thursday.
Securities Docket
JULY 11, 2024
In short, my tenure as Director has coincided with extreme volatility and investor risk in the crypto markets. This has been vividly demonstrated by the dramatic increase in the number of complaints about crypto that investors submitted to the SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (“OIEA”), from 820 in fiscal year 2019, the first year that OIEA’s annual list of Top Ten Categories of Complaints included crypto, to 5,357 in fiscal year 2023.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
French shipping and logistics company CMA CGM said on Thursday that its ship “Benjamin Franklin” had lost 44 containers in difficult weather conditions off the coast of South Africa on Tuesday.
Securities Docket
JULY 11, 2024
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. agreed last month to pay $2.1 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that the marketing and printing company violated disclosure and internal accounting control rules stemming from a 2021 cybersecurity breach. The settlement, which comes amid heightened SEC focus on cybersecurity, represents a new—and expansive—take on the accounting control provisions.
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
U.S. bank regulators fined Citigroup $136 million for making “insufficient progress” fixing data management issues identified in 2020 and required the bank to demonstrate it was putting enough resources toward those efforts.
Securities Docket
JULY 11, 2024
A U.S. appeals court has just deepened a split among the federal circuits on the proper test for asset freezes in cases brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that the SEC cannot sidestep the stringent, four-part test for obtaining a preliminary injunction when it seeks to freeze the assets of a defendant in an enforcement action.
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
The National Rifle Association’s former finance czar, Wilson “Woody” Phillips, has been banned for a decade from managing money for any nonprofit company in New York, the state’s attorney general said Tuesday.
Securities Docket
JULY 11, 2024
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP announced today that Dan Boyle has joined the firm as a partner in its Los Angeles office, marking his return to private practice after spending over five years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California. Previously an associate in the firm’s New York office, Boyle will work on matters involving high-level white collar investigations, foreign corruption, and asset tracing and forfeiture.
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Lawyers for retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to revive a defamation lawsuit Favre filed against a fellow Pro Football Hall of Fame member, former tight end Shannon Sharpe, amid the …
Legal Dive
JULY 11, 2024
The bank has made insufficient progress toward resolving nagging data quality, risk management and internal control issues, the OCC and Federal Reserve said.
Insurance Journal
JULY 11, 2024
UK insurer Aviva announced it has completed the acquisition of Probitas Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd., which marks the company’s return to the Lloyd’s market after a hiatus of more than 20 years.
Legal Dive
JULY 11, 2024
The retailer retreated from its diversity and climate goals after an “anti-woke” protest on social media — and ignited a backlash.
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