E-Discovery LLC
JULY 2, 2025
The entire opinion in Metro Light and Power LLC v. Furnlite , 2025 WL 1805793 (S.D.N.Y. Jul. 1, 2025), states: Defendants oppose the non-party subpoenas on undue burden and relevance grounds. But a “party lacks standing to challenge subpoenas issued to non-parties on the grounds of relevancy or undue burden.” Universitas Educ., LLC v. Nova Grp., Inc., 2013 WL 57892, at *5 (S.D.N.Y.
Insurance Journal
JULY 2, 2025
Howden Japan Acquires Majority Stake in Retail Broker Holos Howden, the London-based insurance intermediary group, announced it has acquired a majority stake (68.3%) in Holos Holdings Co. Ltd., a leading retail insurance broker headquartered in Kyoto.
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Securities Docket
JULY 2, 2025
NYDFS warns that escalating geopolitical conflict “significantly elevates cyber risk for the U.S. financial sector, including an increased risk of ransomware attacks and phishing campaigns.” The Department directs regulated entities to take certain steps in relation to their technical and organizational data security measures, including: Re-examine enterprise-wide risk assessments “to account for recent changes in the cyber-risk landscape.
Insurance Journal
JULY 2, 2025
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has signed into law legislation reducing the auto insurance liability coverage that for-hire vehicles must carry.
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IP Watchdog
JULY 2, 2025
At first glance, certain comments by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director nominee John Squires during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing raised questions about whether he sees the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in the same way as Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart. But on closer examination, and when viewed in context, Squires’s comments could reflect alignment not only with Acting Director Stewart, but with Congress’s objective when it passed the Leahy-Smith
Insurance Journal
JULY 2, 2025
California’s private self-insured employers reported 7.4% fewer workers’ compensation claims in 2024 than in 2023, pushing private self-insured claim frequency to a four-year low, a new report shows.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 2, 2025
Washington Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer convened her first Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board meeting in Seattle this week to look at the insurance industry’s use of AI and to get recommendations on policy development, regulatory oversight and consumer education efforts.
Civil Litigation Brief
JULY 2, 2025
We are looking at a decision made on appeal in relation to the very common issue of the percentage of a success fee and the taking out, and subsequent deduction from damages, of an After the Event Insurance policy. The.
Insurance Journal
JULY 2, 2025
Liberty GTS Names Weiss Head of Americas Liberty Global Transaction Solutions (GTS), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance headquartered in London, promoted Hilary Weiss to head of Americas.
IP Watchdog
JULY 2, 2025
We have written before about the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) 70% all-claims invalidation rate. That article explained (using numbers from the PTAB statistics page) that when a patent is subjected to an IPR, the all-claims invalidation rate is 70%. The all-claims invalidation rate is the rate at which the PTAB finds all challenged claims invalid (unpatentable), effectively killing off the patent.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 2, 2025
Marsh McLennan Agency, part of the global Marsh insurance brokerage and services companies, has acquired Excel Insurance, an insurance agency in Medley, Florida.
Civil Litigation Brief
JULY 2, 2025
Here we have a case about MI5, spies and lies. However this is a site about civil procedure and evidence so we are largely bypassing the intrigue and lies (but not the potential of a finding of contempt of court) .
Insurance Journal
JULY 2, 2025
A cyber hacker broke into a database containing the personal information of millions of customers, Qantas said, in Australia’s biggest breach in years and a setback for an airline rebuilding trust after a reputational crisis.
Civil Litigation Brief
JULY 2, 2025
The preparation of witness statements is an essential part of the stock in trade for most litigators. It is surprising how often statements are ill prepared, they are a regular feature of this site. We see examples here when the.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 2, 2025
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday it is delaying by one month the planned cutoff of satellite data that helps forecasters track hurricanes.
Securities Docket
JULY 2, 2025
Vanguard Group grew into a $10 trillion financial colossus by pioneering simple, ultralow-cost investing. Its wildly popular index funds proved that people don’t need expensive portfolio managers to pick their investments. These days, the company’s most exciting new product is a striking departure from that playbook—a foray into the world of private markets, where investors pay steep fees for access to complex deals that promise high returns.
Insurance Journal
JULY 2, 2025
Google was told by a California jury to pay $314 million over claims that it illegally used Android users’ cellular data to collect information without their knowledge.
Securities Docket
JULY 2, 2025
Cybersecurity woes are plaguing the US Treasury Department, deepening a rift between the agency responsible for protecting the integrity of the financial system and the banks it regulates. Treasury has experienced three major hacks in the past five years, including two that have come to light since December. Meanwhile, its ranks of cybersecurity leaders have been decimated this year by departures pushed by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, which the world’s richest person left in
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Insurance Journal
JULY 2, 2025
Law enforcement officials are investigating a former employee of a company that negotiates with hackers and facilitates cryptocurrency payments during ransomware attacks, according to a statement from the firm, DigitalMint.
Civil Litigation Brief
JULY 2, 2025
We are looking again at the implications of serving a notice of discontinuance. The judgment here leaves open the question of whether a claimant who has served a notice of discontinuance in circumstances that are to their detriment can, in.
Insurance Journal
JULY 2, 2025
Embracing artificial intelligence in insurance is a race, but one that experts describe as a race to the starting rather than the finish line.
Civil Litigation Brief
JULY 2, 2025
It is now three weeks and a day since this site took up the membership subscription model. It has been an interesting time.
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Insurance Journal
JULY 2, 2025
Insurer Nationwide said it has completed the purchase of Allstate’s Group Health business segment for $1.25 billion. The acquisition was announced in January.
Civil Litigation Brief
JULY 2, 2025
We are looking at this case for the third time. There were issues in relation to witness evidence and expert evidence. The problems continued after trial when the judge realised that neither party had addressed her on a mandatory requirement.
Insurance Journal
JULY 2, 2025
Packaged food maker Kraft Heinz is recalling about 367,812 pounds of Oscar Mayer turkey bacon following concerns that the products may be contaminated with Listeria bacteria, the U.S. food safety regulator said on Wednesday.
Securities Docket
JULY 2, 2025
We have talked a few times about Enron Corp., not to be confused with Enron Corp. Last year, someone bought the website and social media accounts of Enron, the energy company that famously went bankrupt because of fraud in 2001. The new Enron exists as an absolutely deadpan combination of jokes (Enron now stands for “Energy, Nurture, Repentant, Opportunity and Nice,” and there are “impossible claims about an egg-shaped nuclear reactor capable of powering a home for a decade”), apparently serious
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Insurance Journal
JULY 2, 2025
Sixth Street, the San Francisco-based private equity firm, has completed its $5.1 billion acquisition of Bermuda legacy specialist Enstar Group.
Ethicking
JULY 2, 2025
Last week, I co-presented a session at the “Life Is a Highway: Handling Traffic Cases”* seminar at the State Bar of Wisconsin, with my friend Emily Bell. Our session was about dabbling—when you want to work on matters not in your normal areas of expertise, and sometimes without the preparation and training you need. One of the topics we discussed is that “no good deed goes unpunished” thing when your friends know you’re a lawyer—they want you to handle their legal matters.
Insurance Journal
JULY 2, 2025
Hiscox, the Bermuda-based global specialist insurer, has launched a new Cargo API (application programming interface)-based solution, available through broker partners for underwriting small cargo and stock throughput risks.
Civil Litigation Brief
JULY 2, 2025
There have been some interesting cases on this site recently relating to the substitution of parties. However none of them are as peculiar as the case we are looking at here - where the claimant's problems were primarily self-inflicted. The.
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