Law Sites
AUGUST 15, 2024
Imagine, if you will, a small backwater town into which one day a large shiny object falls from the sky and lands dead center on the main street of the town’s modest commercial center.
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 15, 2024
Brooke Lively | What matters most to law firm buyers? The post What Do Law Firm Buyers Want? The 3 Things That Matter Most appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
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Lawmatics
AUGUST 15, 2024
A client intake form , often found on a law firm’s website, is used by law firms and legal professionals to gather essential information from potential clients during the initial consultation or intake process. The form helps attorneys understand the client's situation, assess the case, and determine whether they can provide the necessary legal services.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
Hard reinsurance pricing conditions are likely to last longer than in previous market cycles mainly as a result of persistently high claims activity from the accumulation of medium-sized disaster losses and secondary perils, according to an AM Best report.
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Legal Dive
AUGUST 15, 2024
In-house legal departments adopting GenAI software must consider several issues around its value, senior leaders’ positions, data integrity and cultural changes.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
Is your agency a Best Place to Work? Then it’s time to nominate your agency for Insurance Journal’s “Best Agency to Work For” award. To nominate your agency, you must be a current employee of the agency you are nominating.
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Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
A home builder is not covered under the property damage coverage in its commercial liability policy for construction defects for which it was responsible.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 15, 2024
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on August 14 issued a Rule 36 decision that affirms several Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) rulings relating to petitions brought by Twitter and Google. The PTAB held most claims of three B.E. Technology patents unpatentable, save for one arguably key claim that covers “real-time targeted advertising.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
Hundreds of people were allowed to return home this week after being forced to flee a wildfire west of Reno that also shut down Interstate 80 along the California-Nevada line.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 15, 2024
Both in-house attorneys and outside counsel have reason to embrace generative AI but its impact on their work will be different.
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Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
Maine utility regulators unanimously rejected on Tuesday an electric utility’s proposal to proactively report high consumption that signals a marijuana growing operation to law enforcement officials in an attempt to aid police crackdown on illicit operations.
Joseph, Hollander & Craft
AUGUST 15, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 15, 2024 OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Joseph, Hollander & Craft LLC is pleased to announce that 11 lawyers have been included in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America ®. Since its first publication in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as a definitive guide to legal excellence. “For more than 40 years, the rigorous methodology of Best Lawyers has ensured the integrity and esteem of our legal recognitions,” said Best Lawyers CEO Phil
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
PECOS COUNTY, Texas – On a sprawling ranch in Pecos County in late July, oil well control specialist Hawk Dunlap used a backhoe to uncover an abandoned or so-called zombie well that had sprung back to life despite being plugged …
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 15, 2024
Last week, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) signed HB 4875 into law, enacting several changes to the state’s Right of Publicity Act to create a cause of action against parties creating unauthorized digital replicas of individuals with the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Illinois is now the second state in the nation to pass legislation preventing the use of an individual’s image, likeness, or voice without consent, an issue that is also being targeted by legislation in
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
Hundreds of flights and some bullet train services will be suspended as Typhoon Ampil makes its way toward Japan’s main island Friday, impacting travel plans during the country’s annual summer break. Japan Airlines Co.
Civil Litigation Brief
AUGUST 15, 2024
For the third time this week I find myself writing about judicial criticisms of the way in which witness statements have been prepared. This case has by far the most excoriating comments. In Fulstow & Anor v Francis [2024] EWHC.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
What’s in a name? Thousands of dollars, a lost job, denied insurance coverage and the possibility of a suspended law license for a Mississippi workers’ compensation attorney, apparently.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 15, 2024
If the banks that own Zelle’s parent battle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in court, they may find some federal judges open to their arguments, lawyers specializing in the area said.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
A Maui judge’s ruling resolves a critical roadblock to finalizing a $4 billion wildfire settlement: Insurance companies who have paid out more than $2 billion in claims can seek reimbursement only from the settlement amount defendants, who victims blame for …
Securities Docket
AUGUST 15, 2024
In February 2022, the chief legal officer of hedge fund Citadel, Shawn Fagan, rang Eugene Scalia, a top lawyer who has made a career out of taking on US regulators. Following the call, Citadel and the other hedge funds and private equity firms opposing the plans decided on a strategy altogether more drastic than simply quibbling about individual aspects of the rule they did not like — challenging in court the SEC’s very authority to introduce such regulation.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
The energy company at the center of a $60 million bribery scheme in Ohio will pay $20 million and avoid criminal charges as part of a deal with state prosecutors to resolve its role in the scandal. Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp.
Securities Docket
AUGUST 15, 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against 26 broker-dealers, investment advisers, and dually-registered broker-dealers and investment advisers for widespread and longstanding 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 pena
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
A federal workplace safety investigation has found that a metro-Chicago carpentry contractor with a long history of exposing employees to potentially deadly hazards again ignored regulations to protect workers from falls. For the seventh time since 2013, the U.S.
Securities Docket
AUGUST 15, 2024
Five law firms should receive $267 million in legal fees for obtaining a $1 billion settlement for shareholders of Dell Technologies (DELL.N), the Delaware Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, rejecting arguments that the payment was a windfall. The fee is one of the largest ever for U.S. shareholder litigation. A Delaware trial court is weighing two other requests for huge legal fees, both in cases involving Tesla (TSLA.O), and the ruling contained language that might be seen as helpful for the ca
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
Chevron Corp. is to pay Richmond City Council $550 million over 10 years, the city said in a statement, in a settlement that saw it drop a proposed ballot on a new tax on the oil major’s Richmond refinery.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 15, 2024
A federal court dismissed a class-action suit brought against the airline that alleged it deceptively advertised its sustainable aviation fuel efforts.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced it is launching an Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, an interdisciplinary research and innovation center.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 15, 2024
The agency that regulates Wall Street in the past year has slammed several financial services companies for flawed record-keeping.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
Johnson & Johnson was twice blocked in New Jersey from getting bankruptcy protection from one of its units to resolve billions of dollars in cancer claims tied to baby powder use.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 15, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission says it can impose penalties administratively, but having the rule is expected to make it easier.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
As industrywide auto insurance loss costs appear to be moderating, consumers continue to shop policies at elevated rates, according to the latest quarterly Insurance Personal Lines and Perspectives report from TransUnion.
Securities Docket
AUGUST 15, 2024
One of the more interesting recent litigation phenomena is that even though we are now well into the fifth year since the initial COVID outbreak in the U.S., COVID-related securities lawsuits continue to be filed. Indeed, in its recent survey of first half 2024 securities lawsuit filings, NERA noted COVID-related filings as one of the factors contributing to the volume of securities suit filing in the year’s first half, and indeed noted that COVID-related suit filings YTD were on pace to exceed
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
Utah-based PCF Insurance Services reports it has acquired the insurance business of Asset Insurance Agency, based in Peabody, Massachusetts. Asset Insurance Agency sells auto, home, commercial and life insurance in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Florida, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Joseph, Hollander & Craft
AUGUST 15, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 15, 2024 OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Joseph, Hollander & Craft LLC attorney Dionne M. Scherff was recently recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2025 “Lawyer of the Year” for Criminal Defense: General Practice in Kansas City, Kansas. (This Best Lawyers metro area covers the Kansas side of Greater Kansas City, including Overland Park and Johnson County, KS.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
An owner of a now defunct trucking company agreed to plead guilty on Tuesday to federal charges related to a deadly crash in New Hampshire that killed seven motorcyclists.
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