Law Sites
JULY 12, 2024
Citators — tools that validate whether a case or statute is still good law — have always been an essential component of a full-featured legal research platform. But in this age of AI-generated hallucinations, they may be more important than ever before.
Attorney at Work
JULY 12, 2024
Julie Savarino | Live streaming can build attorneys’ credibility and reputation faster than traditional webinars or other online events. The post Attorneys Live Streaming on LinkedIn Live: Most Law Firms Are Missing Out appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
Allstate is seeking an increase in its California homeowners insurance premiums by an average of 34%. According to the California Department of Insurance, the Allstate homeowners filing was received by the Department on April 14, 2023.
Complex Discovery
JULY 12, 2024
Editor’s Note: In a legal confrontation that could significantly impact the pharmaceutical industry, AbbVie has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to shield its corporate records from disclosure, challenging a lower court decision that threatens the integrity of attorney-client privilege. This case, alongside ongoing legal battles involving Purdue Pharma and other major pharmaceutical entities, underscores the intricate and often contentious relationship between corporate practices, regulat
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Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
Catastrophic events, such as major hurricanes and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, traditionally have led to hard markets that in turn drove the formation of startup reinsurers to fill capacity needs.
Legal Dive
JULY 12, 2024
Lawyers were the most dissatisfied with generative AI results among corporate work groups, according to a quarterly Bain survey.
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IP Watchdog
JULY 12, 2024
This week in Other Barks & Bites: A group of senators introduces the COPIED Act; WIPO begins its annual assemblies meetings; and the European Union publishes the final text of its landmark AI Act.
Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
Florida Tax Watch, a nonprofit government watchdog in operation for 45 years, is urging state lawmakers to expand wind-mitigation tax breaks for homeowners struggling with higher insurance premiums.
Securities Docket
JULY 12, 2024
From the beginning, the mystery of Bill Hwang is that there has never been any real evidence that he had a plan to make money. He bought stocks, he pushed them up, he had paper profits, he had capacity to withdraw or borrow against some of those paper profits, and he plowed basically all of them back into buying more of the same stocks. He never took his foot off the gas; he was pouring more money into those stocks the week they all collapsed.
Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara today issued a decreased pure premium rate for workers’ compensation insurance, lowering the annual benchmark rate from $1.41 to $1.38 per $100 of payroll— representing a 2.1% percent decrease from last year.
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Securities Docket
JULY 12, 2024
The judge took specific issue with Coinbase requesting documents from Gensler predating his term as chair of the regulatory agency. Kevin Schwartz, an attorney with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz representing Coinbase, said the agency has refused to even discuss the totality of the documents Coinbase might have, but that Gensler’s communications were relevant to the case.
Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
Ships sailing around the southern tip of Africa are wrestling with a bout of bad weather that has already run one vessel aground and seen another lose more than 40 containers overboard.
Securities Docket
JULY 12, 2024
Whistleblower programs and companies’ internal compliance processes aren’t in competition for information from whistleblowers. Counsel representing individuals who participate in government whistleblower programs understand that such a conclusion has it all wrong. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s fiscal year 2017 annual report to Congress on its whistleblower program, about 62% of award recipients from fiscal years 2012 to 2017 were current or former insiders of the entities
Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
Abbott Laboratories hid the risks of its premature-infant formula causing a potentially fatal bowel disease from parents even though company officials acknowledged the peril in internal documents, a lawyer told a Missouri jury.
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Securities Docket
JULY 12, 2024
It’s hard to overstate the stakes for the lawyers who persuaded a Delaware judge to void Tesla founder’s Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package. The size of the legal fee they are requesting is undoubtedly vast: more than 29 million Tesla shares, valued at $7.74 billion as of Thursday morning’s market opening. And so is the gulf between that sum and what Tesla – and many of its investors – think the lawyers may actually deserve for their work on behalf of a lone
Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
Destructive storms like Hurricane Beryl that knocked out power to 3 million homes and businesses in Texas are growing more frequent and intense, and insurers are jacking up rates in response.
Securities Docket
JULY 12, 2024
In joining Saul Ewing as a new partner, Stephen Ma brings the firm’s clients nearly 30 years of experience as a litigator representing public and private companies and their officers, directors, members and investors. He is resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office.
Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
In a change in regulatory practice, Connecticut has decided that all commercial lines claims made insurance forms and rates are now subject to full regulatory review.
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Legal Dive
JULY 12, 2024
The Sweden-based company is making a push into the Spanish-language legal landscape, where generative AI companies have less of a presence.
Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer is being sued for wrongful death and negligence after allegedly hitting and killing a pedestrian earlier this year.
Securities Docket
JULY 12, 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission has ended its investigation into Paxos Trust in relation to Binance USD, a digital asset that Paxos issues and lists, the cryptocurrency platform said Thursday. Paxos said it received a formal termination notice on Tuesday from the SEC, saying it won’t recommend taking an enforcement action against the firm over BUSD, a Binance-branded stablecoin pegged to the dollar on a one-to-one ratio.
Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A judge approved a $1 million settlement Tuesday in a wrongful death lawsuit that accused West Virginia state police troopers of using excessive force on a Maryland man who was walking along a highway last year.
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Securities Docket
JULY 12, 2024
Kristin Mace, the former Chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, has joined Covington’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice in New York as a partner.
Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
Illinois-based specialty insurance broker Origin Specialty Underwriters Agency announced it has acquired Agricultural Insurance Management Services (AIMS), an agribusiness insurance-focused managing general underwriter based in Bow, New Hampshire.
Practice of Law
JULY 12, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court had another monumental term. Some cases involved novel issues for the court, such as the one granting the President immunity from almost all criminal charges. Other rulings, such as Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, overturned decades of precedent. While some decisions were made on ideological lines, several notable rulings were unanimous or did not break according to conservative or liberal factions.
Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
US Senator Bob Menendez’s lawyer told jurors that the politician’s wife failed to tell him details of how she got a Mercedes Benz from a convicted felon who testified during the lawmaker’s corruption trial that the car was a bribe.
Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
Storms that pounded South Africa’s Western Cape province have led to flood damage affecting more than 35,000 households in the city of Cape Town, Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said.
Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 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.
Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
MARION, N.C. (AP) — Three people were killed when a small plane crashed in western North Carolina, officials said Monday.
Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
Greece is fighting a deadly fire on the island of Lesvos, as temperatures in some parts of the country exceed 40C (104F).
Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
Leif Assurance, headquartered in St. Louis, promoted Robert Worden to sales manager. Worden will also serve as the commercial lines’ sales manager for Leif’s sister company, Powers Insurance & Risk Management.
Insurance Journal
JULY 12, 2024
AT&T said Friday the company suffered a massive hacking incident as data from about 109 million customer accounts containing records of calls and texts from 2022 was illegally downloaded in April. The U.S.
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