E-Discovery LLC

JULY 22, 2024

In Linet Americas , Inc. v. Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc., 2024 WL 3425795 (N.D. Ill. Jul. 15, 2024), the court enforced an ESI Protocol that called for a “metadata-only” privilege log, even though parts of the metadata were redacted by the producing party. The holding ultimately hinged on the text of the ESI Protocol and an unforced error by defendants in failing to ask for information that the ESI Protocol permitted it to get.

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Objections Discovery Precedent 130

Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

US severe convective storms (SCS) continued to drive global natural catastrophe losses during the first half of 2024.

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Insurance 122

Complex Discovery

JULY 22, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article discusses the first annual review of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), which serves as a crucial mechanism for enabling safe and efficient data transfers between the European Union and the United States. Implemented on July 10, 2023, the DPF arose from previous agreements that failed to meet legal scrutiny. The framework represents a significant step in bolstering privacy protections while acknowledging the interdependence of transatlantic trade and inve

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Technology 111

Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

Industry stakeholders continue to try to get a grasp of the implications from last week’s massive technology outage affecting motley industries around the world, but the theme of policy language is reoccurring for a cyber insurance industry not known for …

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Technology Insurance 119

Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?

IP Watchdog

JULY 22, 2024

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision in ZyXEL Communications Corp. v. UNM Rainforest Innovations affirming obviousness findings entered by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) over UNM Rainforest Innovations’ (UNMRI) arguments that ZyXEL’s expert witness misrepresented his contributions to an expert report relied upon by the Board.

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Witnesses Litigation 104

Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

Delta Air Lines Inc. expects to cancel more flights this week as the carrier tries to recover from a crippling technology outage.

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Technology 114

Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

Communities in southwest Florida will continue to enjoy discounts on National Flood Insurance, at least for now, after federal authorities granted a temporary reprieve to punitive actions taken over inappropriate rebuilding in floodplains.

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Insurance 111

InHouseBlog

JULY 22, 2024

Corporate restructurings and layoffs impact the entire workforce. In-house counsel should prepare to survive and thrive.

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Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

A half-dozen Maui wildfire victims sued a group of insurers, including State Farm and Allstate, accusing them of throwing a wrench into a tentative $4 billion deal to settle their claims.

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Insurance 111

IP Watchdog

JULY 22, 2024

The U.S. Copyright Office has implemented a rule that offers a new group registration option for frequently updated news websites. The option would allow online news sites to register “a group of updates to a news website as a collective work with a deposit composed of identifying material representing sufficient portions of the works, rather than the complete contents of the website.

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Depositions 72

Speaker: Andrew Klein

Are there mysteries lurking in your family tree? 🕵 No, not a long-lost half-brother - I'm talking about a patent family tree! IP paralegals need fast and easy ways to verify and report on essential data about foreign equivalents of US assets. Join us to master the global scope of key assets to support prosecution, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, competitive monitoring and more!

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Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

The Pennsylvania Insurance Department (PID) reported that it has saved consumers $98.3 million in annual auto, home and other property/casualty insurance premiums in the first six months of 2024 through its review of insurance company rate filings.

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Insurance 110

IP Watchdog

JULY 22, 2024

Pharmacy benefit managers, or simply PBMs, are often owned by either the pharmacies themselves or sometimes by insurers, which creates a lot of self-dealing to say the least. These PBMs are middlemen who receive 50% of the value of the drug, significantly raising drug prices. This has nothing to do with IP whatsoever.

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Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department is warning that state laws that restrict banks from considering environmental, social and governance factors could harm efforts to address money laundering and terrorism financing.

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Finance and Banking Insurance 107

Civil Litigation Brief

JULY 22, 2024

The post earlier this morning on “intemperate” comments in court documents and correspondence reminded me that I meant to highlight a particular aspect of the judgment in Pan NOx Emissions Litigations [2024] EWHC 1728 (KB). The judgment highlights that unnecessarily argumentative.

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Litigation 69

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security and ethics risks before they become problems.

Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

Thousands of people in the Houston area were still without power more than a week after Hurricane Beryl tore through the fourth-largest US city.

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Legal Dive

JULY 22, 2024

A U.S. Appeals Court vacated a prior ruling, which relied on the overturned Chevron doctrine, and sent it back to Texas’ Northern District “given the upended legal landscape.

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Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

A federal judge has ruled that a wholesale insurance agent’s claim against a retail agent for allegedly misrepresenting the exposure of an insured regarding violations of the federal telemarketing law should proceed to trial.

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Retail Insurance 105

Legal Dive

JULY 22, 2024

Even if the promises aren’t formalized in the purchase agreement, they can come back to bite you, attorneys say in an analysis of a contractual case.

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Speaker: Andrew Klein

Patent due diligence processes take too long. The information you need is publicly available but accessing it is often tedious & inefficient, requiring you to wade through dozens of PTO websites or for-free tools to gather what you need. Plus, it frequently occurs late in the game, leaving professionals under pressure, sifting through chaotic 100-page PDFs, and frustrated with poorly formatted information & patent numbers.

Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

Had John’s Disposal Service Inc. and John’s Recycling Inc.

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Securities Docket

JULY 22, 2024

Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Broward County, Florida residents Ricardi Celicourt and Brisly Guillaume with violations of the securities registration and broker-dealer registration provisions of the federal securities laws in connection with their participation in an unregistered securities offering by Royal Bengal Logistics Inc., which fraudulently raised approximately $112 million from 1,500 investors and targeted Haitian-Americans.

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Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

Patchy progress on implementing reforms to make money market funds and other types of “non banks” safer has left the global financial system vulnerable to more shocks, the G20’s risk watchdog said on Monday.

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Securities Docket

JULY 22, 2024

The IT failure also puts pressure on the two companies at the center of the chaos—Microsoft Corp. and cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Inc.—to disclose details to investors and Wall Street regulators. Both companies will be expected to share via securities filings with the market both the immediate news of the mass outage and the subsequent estimated impact on their business operations and customers.

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Litigation

Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

VIENNA, Ohio (AP) — A plane trying to make an emergency landing at an airport in northeastern Ohio crashed, killing all three people aboard, authorities said.

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Securities Docket

JULY 22, 2024

The Security and Exchange Commission sued two Florida residents for their alleged roles in a $112 million fraud scheme targeting South Florida’s Haitian-American community. Ricardi Celicourt and Brisly Guillaume acted as unregistered brokers for Royal Bengal Logistics Inc., a trucking and logistics company sued last year by the SEC for running that scheme, according to the complaint.

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Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

Insurer Allianz SE expects to pay German winemakers tens of millions of euros in insurance claims this year after many vineyards lost their entire harvest to heavy frosts.

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Insurance 105

Securities Docket

JULY 22, 2024

When will we—the CPA firms, along with standard-setters, regulators, membership organizations, and buyers of audit services—confront the sobering truths our profession’s own numbers tell? BF Borgers’ downfall inadvertently brings to light hidden figures that expose the darker truths of public accounting. It also underscores an overemphasis on price as the primary competitive edge among audit firms.

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Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

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Litigation

Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at insurance broker WTW and the re/insurer Everest Group. A summary of these new hires follows here.

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Insurance 105

Legal IT Insider

JULY 22, 2024

LexisNexis Legal & Professional today (22 July) announced a set of new capabilities in its gen AI solution Lexis+ AI, which enables conversational search and provides summarization, intelligent legal drafting, […] The post LexisNexis announces new capabilities for Lexis+ AI including RAG enhancements appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.

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Insurance 105

Legal IT Insider

JULY 22, 2024

The Superior Court of Los Angeles County’s Court Technology Services (CTS) Division suffered a ransomware attack on Friday 19 July leading to it having to shut down the Court’s internal […] The post Superior Court of Los Angeles County suffers ransomware attack appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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