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

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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Insurance Technology 119

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

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

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Litigation

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 105

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

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

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 73

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

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 Pharmaceuticals 69

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Litigation

Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

A fire all but destroyed the historic church sanctuary at First Baptist Dallas, sending smoke billowing over the city but causing no deaths or injuries, Dallas firefighters said.

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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

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

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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Depositions

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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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

The law firms leading class-action litigation against PacifiCorp over the 2020 Labor Day weekend wildfires in Oregon want to examine whether the utility owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is colluding with other law firms to reach lowball settlements with …

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Litigation Insurance 105

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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Litigation

Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

Elements of Friday’s global IT outage, which grounded planes and hit services from banking to healthcare, have occurred before and until more contingencies are built into networks, and organizations put better back-up plans in place, it will happen again.

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Healthcare 104

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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Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

A commuter railroad is mostly at fault for a fiery and deadly 2015 collision between a train and an SUV at a suburban New York crossing, a jury has found in a verdict that lays out how the bill for …

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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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Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

Britain’s insurers set out plans on Monday on how to channel billions of pounds freed up from their safety buffers into infrastructure such as EV charging stations to boost growth.

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Insurance 104

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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Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

A tanker that was involved in a collision near Singapore last week entered the area of Malaysia’s Bertam floating oil terminal on Monday morning after it was intercepted by local authorities on Sunday, shipping data from LSEG and Kpler showed.

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Insurance 103

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

Federal and state officials are developing plans to respond to an oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico tied to an abandoned platform at least eight miles off the Texas coast.

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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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Technology 52

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

Securities Docket

JULY 22, 2024

Last week, a federal judge said she would review her ruling in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) case against Binance and affiliated entities (namely Binance.US and founder Changpeng Zhao) after attorneys for the world’s largest crypto exchange said they interpreted the ruling in a specific way beneficial to them. During a hearing on July 9, attorneys for Binance said they interpreted Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s June 28 ruling on Binance’s motion to dismi

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Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2024

A collision that set two vessels ablaze off Singapore has underlined the growing risks in the crowded Straits of Malacca, as the dark fleet expands and lackluster Chinese demand leaves dozens of the tankers idling.

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Insurance 99