Insurance Journal
JUNE 13, 2025
A culture of risk aversion and mission creep among UK financial regulators is undermining trust and placing costly burdens on banks and insurers, an influential group of parliamentarians found.
Expert Witness Blog
JUNE 13, 2025
In the case of SFR Services, LLC v. American Coastal Insurance Company , No. 2:22-cv-505 (M.D. Fla. Feb. 7, 2025), the testimony of a Forensic Engineering Expert Witness played a pivotal role in determining the cause and extent of property damage following Hurricane Irma. The case illustrates how expert analysis, even when based on virtual inspection, can meet legal standards of admissibility under federal law.
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Insurance Journal
JUNE 13, 2025
Oklahoma lawmakers this legislative session passed a bill limiting post-loss assignment of benefits for property damage under auto, residential or commercial property insurance policies.
Percipient
JUNE 13, 2025
Low-value contracts might seem harmless, but when they come in by the dozens (or hundreds), they quickly become a burden. Reviews slow down, approvals stack up, and legal teams end up buried in paperwork that rarely needs deep review. The issue isn’t complexity. It’s scale. And if you’re wondering just how common this is, here’s a number worth noting: Fortune 2000 companies manage between 20,000 and 40,000 active contracts at any given time.
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Insurance Journal
JUNE 13, 2025
When Bernard Weisse first noticed a tiny crack in the outer wall of his house on the outskirts of Paris, he dismissed it as little more than a nuisance.
Securities Docket
JUNE 13, 2025
BlackRock Inc. is planning for artificial intelligence to have a much bigger role in investing. The world’s largest asset manager has built an AI research platform dubbed “Asimov” and is using it now in the firm’s fundamental equity business, Chief Operating Officer Rob Goldstein said Thursday at the firm’s investor day in New York. “This is a virtual investment analyst,” Goldstein said.
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Securities Docket
JUNE 13, 2025
The SEC and Ripple have moved to close the chapter on one of crypto’s longest-running legal battles, jointly filing a motion in Manhattan federal court to dissolve the injunction in their case and release the $125 million civil penalty currently held in escrow. Under the proposal, $50 million would go to the SEC, while the remaining $75 million would be returned to Ripple.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 13, 2025
A jury has awarded more than $500,000 to five men from Guatemala who said they were exploited and underpaid by a labor contractor that brought them to Michigan to plant and harvest fruit and vegetables.
Civil Litigation Brief
JUNE 13, 2025
We are returning to the same case as the previous post but looking at a different issue. The judge considered whether to make an order for indemnity costs against the claimants. The case is unusual in that such an award.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 13, 2025
This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Beazley and QBE Insurance. A summary of these executive hires follows here. Beazley, headquartered in London, appointed Stefan Wunderlich as head of parametric insurance.
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Civil Litigation Brief
JUNE 13, 2025
This is the second post about the Court of Appeal judgment today in relation to the liability of credit hire companies to pay costs. Here we look at the decisions made in relation to each of the two cases under.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 13, 2025
Huntington Insurance Inc., headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, named Zack Feller as employee benefits senior managing director. Feller joins Huntington from Keystone, where he most recently served as president of employee benefits.
Civil Litigation Brief
JUNE 13, 2025
This is the first of several points that will look in detail at the Court of Appeal decision today in relation to the liability of credit hire companies to pay costs. This first post outlines the main findings. Later posts.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 13, 2025
Greece and Britain have advised their merchant shipping fleets to avoid sailing through the Gulf of Aden and to log all voyages through the Strait of Hormuz after Israel’s large-scale attacks on Iran on Friday, documents seen by Reuters showed.
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Securities Docket
JUNE 13, 2025
Some of the biggest merchants are exploring how to issue or use stablecoins, potentially shifting the high volumes of cash and card transactions that they handle outside the traditional financial system and saving them billions of dollars in fees. Walmart, Amazon.com and other multinational giants have recently explored whether to issue their own stablecoins in the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 13, 2025
Investigators are combing the wreckage of Air India flight AI171 to determine what caused the Boeing Co.
Practice of Law
JUNE 13, 2025
When the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has a difference of opinion between the justices, it tends to garner a good deal of attention. However, SCOTUS justices are in complete accord more often than many might think. Recently, they've delivered a handful of unanimous opinions. On June 12, 2025, all nine members of the Court were again in agreement as it ruled that lower courts had incorrectly tossed out a case brought by a family against the federal government.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 13, 2025
JetZero Inc. announced plans Thursday to build its first manufacturing plant for a next-generation passenger jet in central North Carolina, a project that if successful would create more than 14,500 jobs there in a decade.
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?
Civil Litigation Brief
JUNE 13, 2025
There is always room for another case about bundles on this site. It is a subject of endless fascination to most litigators, and endless frustration for many judges. Here we are looking at a case where the trial judge observed.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 13, 2025
Relatives of seven people who drowned in waters off a Georgia island after a ferry dock walkway collapsed announced Wednesday they filed a lawsuit against the companies that designed and built it.
Civil Litigation Brief
JUNE 13, 2025
It is a difficult task to summarise the value of a life in one document. This is what happens when a schedule is drafted in a fatal claim. It is a task that has to be done carefully and with.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 13, 2025
As Air India Flight AI171 descended toward its doom on Thursday, Ramesh Vishwaskumar sat in the first row of economy class — headed for one of the most harrowing and luckiest moments of his life. After the Boeing Co.
Speaker: Andrew Klein
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Civil Litigation Brief
JUNE 13, 2025
For the second time today we are looking at the rules relating to Qualified one way costs shifting (QOCS) and its exceptions. Here the defendant had spent £2 million successfully defending a claim, only part of that action was a.
Insurance Journal
JUNE 13, 2025
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers on Wednesday approved hundreds of millions of dollars of financial aid to try to persuade the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals to remain in the state and help the St.
Securities Docket
JUNE 13, 2025
Recent changes to CPA licensing laws in many U.S. states mean one thing for some prospective accountants: School’s out early. After a year of networking with graduate school representatives, Bryan Flannery, a rising senior at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, was dead set on continuing his education. Now, he is considering skipping his plan to start applying to master’s programs after the state this year passed legislation allowing prospective CPAs to bypass a fifth year of school.
Complex Discovery
JUNE 13, 2025
Editor’s Note: In a bold defense of digital privacy, Apple’s legal standoff with the UK government, backed by WhatsApp, underscores a pivotal moment in the global debate over encryption, surveillance, and national security. This confrontation, sparked by the UK’s demand for backdoor access to encrypted iCloud data, highlights the mounting pressure on technology companies to reconcile user protections with governmental oversight.
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IP Watchdog
JUNE 13, 2025
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Senate Judiciary Committee advances Trump nominee John Squires to serve as USPTO Director; the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee advances four bipartisan bills on emerging tech and emergency response; the Federal Circuit finds no abuse of discretion in the district court’s decision to decline exercise subject matter jurisdiction in Mitek’s second appeal of its non-infringement action; Meta will invest $14.3 billion into improving the qualit
Insurance Journal
JUNE 13, 2025
A group of 11 states led by California on Thursday filed suit challenging a repeal by Congress of the state’s 2035 electric vehicle rules and heavy duty truck requirements. U.S.
IP Watchdog
JUNE 13, 2025
The USPTO receiving authority by the Trump Administration to hire was no easy lift. IPWatchdog has learned that the USPTO has been tirelessly working with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for 4+ months in an effort to convince OPM to give the USPTO a waiver that would allow the Office to once again start hiring examiners.
Securities Docket
JUNE 13, 2025
When President Trump issued an Executive Order on February 10th titled ““Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security,” some people seemingly had a “come apart.” Those subject to the FCPA were all of a sudden going to go on a bribery binge. American global competitiveness and national security were going to be “hurt.
Speaker: Andrew Klein and Jennifer Vandenplas
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.
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