Attorney at Work
AUGUST 15, 2024
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Lawmatics
AUGUST 15, 2024
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Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
A home builder is not covered under the property damage coverage in its commercial liability policy for construction defects for which it was responsible.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 15, 2024
Both in-house attorneys and outside counsel have reason to embrace generative AI but its impact on their work will be different.
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Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
More favorable mid-year 2024 results of U.S.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 15, 2024
In-house legal departments adopting GenAI software must consider several issues around its value, senior leaders’ positions, data integrity and cultural changes.
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IP Watchdog
AUGUST 15, 2024
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on August 14 issued a Rule 36 decision that affirms several Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) rulings relating to petitions brought by Twitter and Google. The PTAB held most claims of three B.E. Technology patents unpatentable, save for one arguably key claim that covers “real-time targeted advertising.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
Is your agency a Best Place to Work? Then it’s time to nominate your agency for Insurance Journal’s “Best Agency to Work For” award. To nominate your agency, you must be a current employee of the agency you are nominating.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 15, 2024
Last week, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) signed HB 4875 into law, enacting several changes to the state’s Right of Publicity Act to create a cause of action against parties creating unauthorized digital replicas of individuals with the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Illinois is now the second state in the nation to pass legislation preventing the use of an individual’s image, likeness, or voice without consent, an issue that is also being targeted by legislation in
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
Changes in the mpox virus are just the latest challenge facing disease trackers trying to contain an outbreak of the virus that’s become a global health emergency.
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Civil Litigation Brief
AUGUST 15, 2024
For the third time this week I find myself writing about judicial criticisms of the way in which witness statements have been prepared. This case has by far the most excoriating comments. In Fulstow & Anor v Francis [2024] EWHC.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
Hundreds of people were allowed to return home this week after being forced to flee a wildfire west of Reno that also shut down Interstate 80 along the California-Nevada line.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 15, 2024
The agency that regulates Wall Street in the past year has slammed several financial services companies for flawed record-keeping.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
Maine utility regulators unanimously rejected on Tuesday an electric utility’s proposal to proactively report high consumption that signals a marijuana growing operation to law enforcement officials in an attempt to aid police crackdown on illicit operations.
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?
Legal Dive
AUGUST 15, 2024
If the banks that own Zelle’s parent battle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in court, they may find some federal judges open to their arguments, lawyers specializing in the area said.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
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Legal Dive
AUGUST 15, 2024
A federal court dismissed a class-action suit brought against the airline that alleged it deceptively advertised its sustainable aviation fuel efforts.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
PECOS COUNTY, Texas – On a sprawling ranch in Pecos County in late July, oil well control specialist Hawk Dunlap used a backhoe to uncover an abandoned or so-called zombie well that had sprung back to life despite being plugged …
Speaker: Andrew Klein
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Legal Dive
AUGUST 15, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission says it can impose penalties administratively, but having the rule is expected to make it easier.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
Hundreds of flights and some bullet train services will be suspended as Typhoon Ampil makes its way toward Japan’s main island Friday, impacting travel plans during the country’s annual summer break. Japan Airlines Co.
Securities Docket
AUGUST 15, 2024
In February 2022, the chief legal officer of hedge fund Citadel, Shawn Fagan, rang Eugene Scalia, a top lawyer who has made a career out of taking on US regulators. Following the call, Citadel and the other hedge funds and private equity firms opposing the plans decided on a strategy altogether more drastic than simply quibbling about individual aspects of the rule they did not like — challenging in court the SEC’s very authority to introduce such regulation.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
What’s in a name? Thousands of dollars, a lost job, denied insurance coverage and the possibility of a suspended law license for a Mississippi workers’ compensation attorney, apparently.
Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor
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Securities Docket
AUGUST 15, 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against 26 broker-dealers, investment advisers, and dually-registered broker-dealers and investment advisers for widespread and longstanding failures by the firms and their personnel to maintain and preserve electronic communications. The firms admitted the facts set forth in their respective SEC orders, acknowledged that their conduct violated recordkeeping provisions of the federal securities laws, agreed to pay combined civil pena
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
A Maui judge’s ruling resolves a critical roadblock to finalizing a $4 billion wildfire settlement: Insurance companies who have paid out more than $2 billion in claims can seek reimbursement only from the settlement amount defendants, who victims blame for …
Securities Docket
AUGUST 15, 2024
Five law firms should receive $267 million in legal fees for obtaining a $1 billion settlement for shareholders of Dell Technologies (DELL.N), the Delaware Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, rejecting arguments that the payment was a windfall. The fee is one of the largest ever for U.S. shareholder litigation. A Delaware trial court is weighing two other requests for huge legal fees, both in cases involving Tesla (TSLA.O), and the ruling contained language that might be seen as helpful for the ca
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
Hurricane Debby caused almost $1.4 billion in privately insured losses as it moved across the East Coast this month.
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.
Securities Docket
AUGUST 15, 2024
One of the more interesting recent litigation phenomena is that even though we are now well into the fifth year since the initial COVID outbreak in the U.S., COVID-related securities lawsuits continue to be filed. Indeed, in its recent survey of first half 2024 securities lawsuit filings, NERA noted COVID-related filings as one of the factors contributing to the volume of securities suit filing in the year’s first half, and indeed noted that COVID-related suit filings YTD were on pace to exceed
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
The energy company at the center of a $60 million bribery scheme in Ohio will pay $20 million and avoid criminal charges as part of a deal with state prosecutors to resolve its role in the scandal. Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp.
Law Sites
AUGUST 15, 2024
Imagine, if you will, a small backwater town into which one day a large shiny object falls from the sky and lands dead center on the main street of the town’s modest commercial center.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 15, 2024
Chevron Corp. is to pay Richmond City Council $550 million over 10 years, the city said in a statement, in a settlement that saw it drop a proposed ballot on a new tax on the oil major’s Richmond refinery.
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