Law Sites
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
As I noted yesterday, over the weekend, OpenAI releasedDeep Research, an AI agent capable of completing multi-step research tasks and synthesizing large amounts of online information.
Insurance Journal
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
The growing adoption of data-driven underwriting and predictive analytics has given delegated underwriting authority enterprises (DUAEs) a competitive advantage within the insurance industry, with technology serving as a cornerstone for many of these operations.
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Law Sites
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
SmartEsq, a legal technology startup founded by former Big Law and private equity veterans, announced its official launch today, introducing an AI-powered platform designed to streamline legal workflows for private investment funds.
Insurance Journal
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Generali to remain in charge of decisions over how to allocate its own clients’ savings under the asset management deal with France’s BPCE, the insurer said, addressing concerns raised by Italy’s government and two leading investors.
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Attorney at Work
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Teddy Snyder | You're not writing in the 14th century, so stop trying to sound like a scrivener from 700 years ago. The post Whereas, I Keep Telling Lawyers to Stop Writing Like This appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
Insurance Journal
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Specialty insurance provider Ryan Specialty reported it has completed the acquisition of Velocity Risk Underwriters, LLC from funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.
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IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Twenty years ago, Congress began hearing that the patent system needed a faster, cheaper way than district court suits to assess the validity of issued patents. In line with this goal, Congress emphasized that the new procedure was to be an alternative to expensive district court litigation.
Law Sites
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
In the United States, we face a staggering crisis in access to justice, with over 90% of low-income Americans’ civil legal needs estimated to be going unmet. But what if there was a way to dramatically expand legal help by empowering a new category of legal helpers?
Insurance Journal
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
A group calling for reforms to lower insurance costs across New York has launched its first ad.
Legal Dive
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Regulators would like to think that RealPage’s price suggestions are rate mandates, but they only speak to a hypothetical price status at a given point in time.
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Insurance Journal
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Economic losses from the fires that tore through Los Angeles County in January range from $95 billion to $164 billion, according to a new report, potentially making the blazes the second-costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.
E-Discovery Team
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
The post discusses the evolution of AI transparency, specifically focusing on DeepSeek's Deep-Think feature. This feature enhances user trust by revealing AI's reasoning process, contrasting with traditional black-box models. Despite being a useful tool, it follows developments in OpenAI's ChatGPT o3-mini-high, which adopted similar transparency shortly after.
Insurance Journal
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
In arid West Texas, water seeps and bubbles from old wells, sometimes carrying oil, brackish water or other pollutants to the surface.
Newport Beach California Business Litigation Law B
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
No one starts a business expecting to face legal disputes, but conflicts are inevitable. When facing conflicts over a broken contract or disagreements with a business partner, many legal avenues are available to you. If options like mediation fail, then you may need to consider litigation (i.e., seeking relief through court action or arbitration). Litigation empowers you to resolve disputes and protect your assets and reputation.
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?
Insurance Journal
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Orion180 announced that its FLEX Home Insurance product is now available in Texas. Orion180 said that FLEX is designed to address the diverse needs of Texas homeowners, including those in high-risk areas prone to natural disasters like tornadoes and hailstorms.
Legal Dive
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
The updated policies exclude a recommendation that boards “at a minimum, represent diversity of personal characteristics, inclusive of at least diversity in gender, race and ethnicity.
Insurance Journal
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
AXA XL Hires Bakker as Head of Environmental Package Solutions, Middle Market, Americas AXA XL in the Americas hired Peter Bakker as head of environmental package solutions for the middle market in the Americas. Bakker is based in New York.
Legal Dive
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
In-house teams must “actively” manage their outside firms to avoid rising costs and achieve the best impact from their budgets, Laura Richardson says.
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Insurance Journal
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
WTW reported net Income for the fourth quarter of 2024 of $1.25 billion, compared to net income of $623 million in the same period in 2023.
Complex Discovery
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Editor’s Note: OpenAIs latest advancement, Deep Research, is poised to redefine professional research in fields like finance, science, policy, and engineering. This AI-powered tool leverages OpenAIs forthcoming o3 model to conduct multi-step research autonomously, synthesizing insights from vast online sources with remarkable speed and precision.
Insurance Journal
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
U.S. Representative French Hill, a Republican who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, said on Tuesday lawmakers from both chambers of congress would form a working group to develop policy favoring development of digital assets.
Securities Docket
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
A five-count criminal indictment was unsealed today in federal court in New York charging a Canadian man with exploiting vulnerabilities in two decentralized finance protocols to fraudulently obtain about $65 million from the protocols investors. According to court documents, from 2021 to 2023, Andean Medjedovic, 22, allegedly exploited vulnerabilities in the automated smart contracts used by the KyberSwap and Indexed Finance decentralized finance protocols.
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Insurance Journal
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
The GS Foods Group Inc. in Ontario, California, agreed to pay more than $949,000 to settle allegations of False Claims Act violations related to small business contract bidding.
Securities Docket
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
As our longtime readers know, we endeavor in these pages not only to describe the years individual FCPA and related enforcement actions, but also to discern patterns, themes, and trends in this enforcement activity. With respect to 2024, we have identified seven developments of note: DOJ reaches subsidiary-only resolutions with parent compliance guarantees; DOJ further defines the poles in Corporate Enforcement Policy credit; DOJ FCPA declinations with disgorgement continue as a trickle; Roundin
Insurance Journal
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Stephen Weinstein, a Harvard-trained lawyer, has spent more than two decades with Renaissance Re, as chief legal officer and executive vice president. He is now turning that experience to Mangrove Property Insurance, a startup insurer based in Florida.
Civil Litigation Brief
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
I am grateful to Professor Keith Rix for allowing me to use an article that appears in February’s Expert Healthcare Witness Matters*. This deals with the question of whether an expert can, or should, agree to act on a conditional.
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.
Insurance Journal
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
King Risk Partners announced the acquisition of Barker, Beck, Collins & Kronauge Agency (BBC&K), an independent insurance firm in Dayton, Ohio. BBC&K was founded in founded in 1923.
IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Dilworth IP is Seeking a Patent Attorney - Partner. Are you a patent attorney with a thriving book of business looking for a firm that shares your dedication to innovation and client service? Dilworth IP is seeking exceptional talent to join their team of world-class legal experts. This is a remote (within the US) full-time, permanent position.
Insurance Journal
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Liberian-flagged crude oil tanker Chrysalis, which was attacked by Yemen’s Houthis last year, sailed through the Red Sea this week, the Suez Canal said on Monday, in one of the first voyages since the militia announced a halt in attacks …
Securities Docket
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global White Collar Practice with the addition of Brent Wible as a partner in Washington, DC.[…] Serving as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division at the DOJ, Wible led the Division and managed the work of more than 1,500 attorneys and staff across 16 sections and offices.
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