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Insurance Journal
JUNE 26, 2025
BHP faces a full contempt of court hearing in Britain for funding litigation to try to prevent some Brazilian municipalities suing the mining giant over one of Brazil’s worst environmental disasters, London’s High Court ruled on Thursday. Thursday’s ruling is …
WA Bar News
JUNE 12, 2025
5 Second, because the “independent professional judgment” thread of the rule overlaps with the conflict rules—principally RPC 1.7(a)(2) b)(4) permits the lawyer to withdraw (or seek leave to withdraw if court rules require court approval). Travelers Home and Marine Insurance Company, 2022 WL 6799766 at *1 (W.D.
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Insurance Journal
JUNE 10, 2025
A Florida appeals court ruled last week that telling a jury about those delays may be prejudicial and out … Some Florida policyholders and their attorneys have long complained about real or perceived delays in the claims-handling process after a loss.
Practice of Law
JULY 9, 2025
Two people in Mississippi learned the hard way that expecting an insurance company to pay out for an accident involving criminal activity between them offered perhaps the worst odds of all. Automotive liability insurance sounds like exactly what's needed when a driver runs someone over. On June 30, 2025, a U.S.
E-Discovery LLC
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
By definition, a litigation hold notice is a communication from an attorney to a client regarding the duty to preserve potentially responsive information. [1] 7, 2025), the court held that litigation hold notices were privileged. THE HOMELAND DECISION Homeland is an insurance coverage lawsuit. 1] In Homeland Ins.
Insurance Journal
DECEMBER 12, 2024
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The Ohio Supreme Court ruled last Tuesday that the state’s product liability law prohibits counties from bringing public nuisance claims against national pharmaceutical chains as they did as part of national opioid litigation, a decision that …
Next Generation E-Discovery Law & Tech Blog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Arch Insurance Company is a recent decision focused mostly on issues and challenges related to preservation of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) in a large enterprise. It is an instructive case for in-house counsel, as it demonstrates how avoidable eDiscovery failures can lead to potentially devastating court sanctions.
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