Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Last month, I kicked off our series on survival skills for lawyers, and stress by discussing emotional resilience, the ability to bounce back from the inevitable disappointments and obstacles encountered in practicing law. In this blog post, we’ll discuss essential stress management practices specifically tailored for lawyers and ways to deal with chronic stress.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Even before the second megastorm in as many weeks brings devastating floodwaters to the Southeast US, it’s already clear that federal flood-risk maps underpinning decisions by millions of American homeowners and businesses are severely out of sync with a new …
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Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 9, 2024
This checklist will help you tidy up by the end of the year and give you a clear picture of your firm’s financial performance. The post Law Firm Financial Management: A 5-Step Checklist to Close Out the Year appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Hurricane Milton could result in a $60 billion loss for the global insurance industry, creating a surge in 2025 reinsurance prices which could boost some insurance companies’ shares, analysts at RBC Capital said.
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IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 9, 2024
As more states legalize recreational marijuana, the incidence of children accidentally ingesting cannabis edibles has also risen dramatically. According to Pediatrics, a journal published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the number of children under six years old who have consumed cannabis products surged by 1,375% from 2017 to 2021. See Marit S.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Almost two years after a group of independent claims adjusters alleged that insurers had deceptively altered their damage estimates and low-balled policyholders, Florida’s chief financial officer has issued an emergency rule barring similar actions in Hurricane Milton claims.
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Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
A wide cone of uncertainty surrounds insurance experts’ pre-landfall predictions about the state of the industry that will prevail in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, with most viewing it as a $20 billion-plus loss event.
The Marshall Project
OCTOBER 9, 2024
When you are harmed in a place whose purpose is punishment, why is it so hard to get justice?
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Investors in catastrophe bonds are girding themselves for substantial losses as the combined destructive force of Hurricanes Helene and Milton looks set to trigger payment clauses on a scale not seen in years.
SW&L Attorneys Blog
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Proper Venue For A North Dakota Guardianship: Understanding The Legal Framework In North Dakota, guardianship is a legal arrangement where a court appoints a guardian to make decisions for someone who is unable to make those decisions themselves. This can involve minors or adults who are incapacitated due to age, illness, or disability. If you are interested, you can also read about guardianships and conservatorships in the following articles: What Happens If I Don’t Have a Health Care Directi
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Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appellate court is reviewing a civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies to place polluting industries in majority-Black communities. The Fifth U.S.
Legal IT Insider
OCTOBER 9, 2024
DraftWise, an AI-powered contract and negotiation platform for lawyers, today announced a new collaboration with enterprise AI company Cohere, which will improve lawyers’ ability to access relevant deal history. As […] The post Draftwise enters collaboration with Cohere to refine Gen AI retrieval accuracy appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Home security firm ADT Inc said on Monday an unauthorized actor had illegally accessed its network using credentials obtained through a third-party business partner. Shares of the company fell 1.8% after the bell.
Legal Dive
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Lawyers for the bank argue the state is trying to rewrite the Electronic Fund Transfer Act through “litigation” and that when consumers are deceived into sending money to criminals, it’s “not a Citi issue.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
With Hurricane Milton now expected to produce several hundred thousand wind-damage claims and with the storm coming so soon on the heels of Hurricane Helene, industry leaders are bracing for significant delays in claims adjusting.
Legal Dive
OCTOBER 9, 2024
The company, found in August to be an illegal monopoly, might need a “structural” remedy to prevent it from dominating search and online ads, the agency says in a filing.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
A Virginia man pled guilty to embezzling funds from his former employer, a fund that provides financial assistance to families of infants who suffer from brain or spinal cord injuries, reports the U.S. Attorney for Eastern Virginia.
Your Trial Message
OCTOBER 9, 2024
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: With fewer than 30 days to go until one of the most pivotal elections in our history, do you believe the polls? Many would say “No.” Even when our favored candidate is ahead, we all seem to believe that there is some built-in error in the surveys.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
The U.N. weather agency is reporting that 2023 was the driest year in more than three decades for the world’s rivers, as the record-hot year underpinned a drying up of water flows and contributed to prolonged droughts in some places.
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 9, 2024
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today that it has finalized a proposed rule expanding opportunities to practice before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). After considering comments received, the final rule will allow parties to proceed without separate backup counsel contingent upon a showing of good cause. However, the final rule scrapped a proposal to permit non-registered counsel admitted pro hac vice to serve as lead counsel in America Invents Act (AIA) proceedi
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
GSK has agreed to pay up to $2.2 billion to settle most pending U.S. state court lawsuits claiming that a discontinued version of the heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer, the company announced on Wednesday.
Securities Docket
OCTOBER 9, 2024
An 86-year-old, disbarred California attorney has been sentenced to five years of probation for his role in a $9.5 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro in Las Vegas on Monday also ordered the ex-Beverly Hills lawyer David Kagel to pay nearly $14 million in restitution after he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit commodity fraud.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Hurricane Milton churned toward Florida’s west coast with winds powerful enough to demolish houses, threatening to unleash once-in-a-century flooding across some of the state’s fastest-growing counties.
Securities Docket
OCTOBER 9, 2024
An analysis of cases involving companies the SEC has given cooperation credit — Cloopen Group Holding, GTT Communications, Stanley Black & Decker, View, Cronos Group, Surgalign Holdings and voxeljet — suggests a number of important lessons. Ultimately, the strategies employed by Cloopen, GTT, View, Stanley Black & Decker, Cronos, Surgalign and voxeljet provide a blueprint for other companies facing similar challenges.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
The state attorney general’s latest report on the deadly 2023 Lahaina wildfire flagged various locked gates that blocked people trying to flee as flaws in Maui’s evacuation planning.
Securities Docket
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com said it sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Chair Gary Gensler and its four commissioners after the regulator sent a Wells Notice – a warning that an enforcement action might be coming – to the company. The court filing was made “to protect the future of crypto in the U.S.,” CEO Kris Marszalek said in a posting on X.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Marriott International has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission and 50 state attorneys general over a series of data breaches at a guest-reservation system subsidiary.
Securities Docket
OCTOBER 9, 2024
The company says it has collected between $14.7 billion and $16.5 billion worth of property for distribution. FTX previously estimated that it owes creditors around $11.2 billion. According to the plan approved by Delaware bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey, 98% of FTX’s creditors will get 119% of the amount of their allowed claim as of November 2022, when the exchange filed for bankruptcy protection.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
It’s going to take about two weeks to remove smoldering debris from a Maine town’s trash incinerator after a fire burned in the waste for a week, officials said Tuesday.
Securities Docket
OCTOBER 9, 2024
A former executive of a global pharmaceutical company pleaded guilty today in federal in Boston to earning more than $250,000 by trading on material non-public information. Dishant Gupta, 40, of Hillsborough, N.J., pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud. U.S. District Court Judge Julia E. Kobick scheduled sentencing for Jan. 9, 2025. Gupta was charged by Information in September 2024.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
In the wake of wildfires over the weekend affecting parts of NorthDakota, Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread and State Fire Marshal Doug Nelson are reminding residents of the necessary steps to protect themselves and their property during the recovery process.
Civil Litigation Brief
OCTOBER 9, 2024
I have a strong suspicion that “fish files” form a considerable percentage of the cases that are written about on this blog. It is an issue that has been looked at several times in the past. A “fish file” is.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
The Lloyd’s of London market is undermining climate action and should impose binding rules to prevent insurers supporting fossil fuel expansion, NGO Reclaim Finance said on Wednesday.
Legal Dive
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Long tagged as a cost center, the legal department can unlock savings and monetize assets by being creative, in-house lawyers say.
Insurance Journal
OCTOBER 9, 2024
An insurance broker who collected nearly $137,000 in sales commissions by submitting fabricated insurance applications for end-of-life insurance policies in clients’ names without their knowledge, and used those clients’ personal and banking information to pay for those policies, was sentenced …
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