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March 07, 2024
Idaho Cuts Biz Unemployment Insurance Tax Rates
Idaho businesses will see lower unemployment insurance tax rates than previously forecast under legislation signed into law by the governor.
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March 07, 2024
Feds Look To Bar Advice-Of-Counsel Defense From Tax Trial
Federal prosecutors have sought to prevent two attorneys and an insurance agent from relying on advice-of-counsel defenses in their upcoming tax fraud trial, telling a North Carolina federal judge the trio failed to give the court an adequate heads-up about their intended defense.
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March 06, 2024
6th Circ. Orders Do-Over For Insurer's $3.3M Recoupment Row
A Sixth Circuit panel on Tuesday revived a Chubb unit's bid to recoup costs from two other insurers after it helped windshield repair company Safelite pay for its defense against a competitor's suit, saying the lower court must conduct an analysis to determine whether the other carriers were prejudiced by late notice.
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March 06, 2024
Co. Says Chubb Unit Must Cover $5M Merger Dispute Defense
A holding company subsidiary of Banco Santander told a Delaware federal court that a Chubb unit must contribute to $5 million in legal expenses the company has incurred in defending itself in an underlying class action brought by minority shareholders who objected to a merger with another subsidiary.
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March 06, 2024
Insurer Says Mountaineer's Death Not 'Accidental'
Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co. asked the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to reverse a decision saying it has to pay out an accidental death benefit to the family of a Harvard medical professor who died trying to summit a mountain in Pakistan, arguing that there isn't enough evidence to show that his death was an accident.
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March 06, 2024
Connecticut Marshals Union Pushes For Lower Job Cap
Connecticut law authorizes the appointment of far more state marshals than necessary, the workers' union told state lawmakers Wednesday, in support of a new bill that would lower the cap and give job candidates incentive to choose the marshals service as a career.
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March 06, 2024
Quinn Emanuel's 2nd $185M Fee Bid Blasted As 'Indefensible'
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's second attempt to win $185 million in attorney fees in $3.7 billion litigation over the Affordable Care Act still fails to justify the "indefensible" amount and barely pays "lip service" to a reevaluation ordered by the Federal Circuit, health insurers told the federal claims court.
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March 06, 2024
Geico Brings On Ex-Wells Fargo Atty As New Legal Chief
Insurance company Geico announced Wednesday that its new chief legal officer is a former Wells Fargo attorney with a regulatory background and more than a decade of experience as in-house counsel.
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March 06, 2024
AI-Focused Co. Roadzen Recruits General Counsel
Artificial intelligence-powered automotive insurance company Roadzen Inc. has named a new general counsel who brings more than 30 years of in-house experience to the role.
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March 05, 2024
Allstate Must Face Former In-House Atty's Disability Bias Suit
A New York federal judge rejected Allstate's bid for a pretrial win in a disability discrimination case brought by a former in-house lawyer who claims he was wrongfully fired after his doctor said he couldn't handle the stress of trials, including standing for long periods of time.
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March 05, 2024
Express Scripts Gets Pharmacy's Contract Breach Suit Cut
A Missouri federal judge tossed out two claims in a five-count suit accusing Express Scripts of conducting a faulty audit on a New York pharmacy and then wrongfully terminating their contract, saying the pharmacy can't sue under two laws it cited.
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March 05, 2024
NC Panel Says Co. Can't Intervene In Insurer Liquidation
A holding company owned by insurance mogul Greg Lindberg shouldn't have been allowed to intervene in the North Carolina insurance commissioner's liquidation of two insolvent insurers, a state appeals court held Tuesday, saying only a company's directors are permitted to do so under state law.
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March 05, 2024
Aetna Accused Of 'Reprehensible' ER Services Underpayment
Multiple Aetna health insurance entities were hit with a lawsuit in Ohio accusing them of "reprehensible systemic underpayments" to healthcare workers who provide emergency services, underpayments that the complaint said were damaging to the medical system.
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March 04, 2024
5th Circ. May Uphold National Block On ACA Preventive Care
The Fifth Circuit appeared open Monday to striking down Affordable Care Act requirements forcing insurers to cover a range of preventive treatments such as mammograms and HIV prevention medication, homing in on constitutional problems with how members of a task force setting coverage mandates were appointed.
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March 04, 2024
Judge Releases Entity From Ohio Hotel Sex Trafficking Suit
A federal judge released a holding company from a lawsuit brought by a plaintiff who accuses Choice Hotels International Inc., Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Inc. and other hotel companies of failing to prevent her from being trafficked at four Ohio hotels.
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March 04, 2024
Conn. Trial Attys Slam Proposed Offsets For Jury Awards
Connecticut lawmakers on Monday considered a bill that could reduce economic damages awarded to personal injury and wrongful death plaintiffs when a collateral payment source, such as an insurer, has a right of subrogation, a measure that trial lawyers panned as an insurance industry perk that would undo precedent.
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March 04, 2024
LifeWallet Settles With Insurers, Enhancing Claims Process
Healthcare reimbursement venture MSP Recovery, which does business as LifeWallet, has announced a deal with 28 affiliated property and casualty insurers that would settle unreimbursed Medicare claims and provide historical data to streamline the process of resolving such claims in the future.
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March 04, 2024
FTI Consulting Acquires Actuarial Firm Madison Consulting
Washington, D.C.-based international business advisory firm FTI Consulting Inc. announced on Monday its acquisition of Madison Consulting Group, an actuarial firm based in Madison, Georgia, and Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.
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March 04, 2024
Trump's Former Finance Chief Pleads Guilty To Perjury
Allen Weisselberg, the longtime former financial chief of Donald Trump's real estate business empire, admitted Monday to lying under oath in the New York attorney general's civil fraud case as part of a plea deal to serve five months in jail.
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March 01, 2024
Jury Awards Midwest Energy $57M On Refined Coal Patents
A Delaware federal jury on Friday awarded Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. more than $57 million after finding that numerous affiliated companies willfully infringed its patents on technology for refining coal to reduce mercury in emissions from power plants.
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March 01, 2024
Fintech Co. Vesttoo's Ch. 11 Plan OK'd After Dissent Defused
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has approved the Chapter 11 liquidation plan proposed by the official committee of unsecured creditors to bankrupt Israeli fintech firm Vesttoo Ltd., after the committee sorted out a final objection to the plan.
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March 01, 2024
Auto Coverage Hinges On Victim's Domicile, Mich. Panel Says
A dispute over personal protection insurance will return to a trial court to determine whether a crash victim was residing in Michigan or Kentucky at the time of the incident, after a Michigan state appeals court granted neither the victim's guardian nor Progressive an early win.
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March 01, 2024
Exec's Captive Insurance Case Headed To Trial
Whether an insurance executive knowingly lied to clients by telling them they could take illegal tax deductions in connection with captive insurance arrangements should be decided by a jury, a Florida federal judge ruled, saying material facts in the case are disputed.
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March 01, 2024
Day Care Says Policy Covers $21.6M Infant Death Judgment
A day care is urging a Florida federal court to reject its insurer's bid for an early win in a coverage dispute concerning a $21.6 million judgment over an infant's death, saying there are disputed issues of fact about whether the policy was canceled by the insured before the incident.
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March 01, 2024
Former Pa. Assistant DA Moves To GRSM50's Philly Team
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has hired an attorney with nearly a decade of experience working as an assistant district attorney in Pennsylvania to join the firm's office in Philadelphia as a partner, the firm recently announced.
Expert Analysis
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Okla. Workers' Comp Case Could Mean Huge Shift In Claims
An Oklahoma appeals court's recent opinion in Prewitt v. Quiktrip Corp. may expand the scope of continuing medical maintenance orders in workers' compensation cases to unprecedented levels — with potentially major consequences for employers and insurers, says Steven Hanna at Gilson Daub.
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How Reps And Warranties Insurance Can Aid Sellers In M&A
Amid the current slowdown in the M&A climate, representation and warranty insurance offers sellers a number of advantages, including protection against fraud and possible leverage to insist on a no-seller-indemnity deal, say Alex Leibowitz and Eric Jesse at Lowenstein Sandler.
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ESG Around The World: Australia
Clive Cachia and Cathy Ma at K&L Gates detail ESG-reporting policies in Australia and explain how the country is starting to introduce mandatory requirements as ESG performance is increasingly seen as a key investment and corporate differentiator in the fight for global capital.
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Ore. Warranty Ruling Complicates Insurance Classification
The Oregon Court of Appeals' recent TruNorth v. Department of Consumer and Business Services holding that a service contract — commonly referred to as an extended warranty — covering commercial property is subject to the state's consumer service contract laws raises regulatory questions for contract obligors, sellers and administrators, say attorneys at Locke Lord.
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9th Circ.'s Latest UBH Ruling Ignores Case's Core Issue
The Ninth Circuit’s recent decision to vacate its earlier opinion in Wit v. United Behavioral Health frustratingly disregards the case’s key issue of benefits coverage for mental health treatment, and illogically elevates an insurer's discretionary authority over the medically necessary needs of patients, says Mark DeBofsky at DeBofsky Law.
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Pickleball Makes Waves In Fla. Real Estate, With Risks In Play
Pickleball's burgeoning popularity in Florida is catalyzing a transformation in the state's commercial real estate market, but investors must take steps to navigate legal challenges related to noise, insurance and community dynamics, says Emmanuelle Litvinov at DarrowEverett.
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Mass. Dispute Highlights R&W Insurance Considerations
The progression of the litigation in a Massachusetts state court between pH Beauty and its representations and warranties insurers to the summary judgment stage offers rare insight into coverage disputes that can arise under such policies, including takeaways for buyers and sellers looking to procure adequate coverage for future transactions, say attorneys at Hunton.
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Standing Issues Prevail In Wake Of Calif. Competition Ruling
Courts and litigants may grapple with uncertainty in the wake of the California Supreme Court's recent California Medical Association v. Aetna Health decision broadening standing to sue under the state's unfair competition law, and additional litigation will likely be required to develop its contours, say attorneys at Skadden.
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It's Not You, It's Me: Breaking Up With Mass. FCA Prosecutors
A recent Massachusetts U.S. Attorney's Office settlement, which required a hospital to admit to certain facts, continues a state trend away from traditionally defense-friendly nonadmission language and may complicate the prospects of amicably resolving future False Claims Act cases, say Jonathan York and Scott Memmott at Morgan Lewis.
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An In-Depth Look At FDIC Reform Options After Bank Failures
Anthony Pirraglia and Melissa Hall at Loeb & Loeb explain the three coverage options for reforming the deposit insurance system, which were proposed in a recent report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures.
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Legal Considerations For Calif. Rental Vehicle Data Collection
The legal implications under California’s Rental Passenger Vehicle Transactions Law must be thoroughly understood and navigated carefully, and rental companies operating in the state should consider some key factors before installing tracking devices in their vehicles, says Hannah Ji-Otto at Baker Donelson.
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Top 5 Privacy Cases To Watch, From Chatbots To Geolocation
Litigation related to privacy law violations has been on the rise recently, and while some judges have pushed back on the novel theories set forth by plaintiffs, new privacy cases are launched almost every day, including notable ones on topics ranging from chatbots to geolocation, say Sushila Chanana and Rodolfo Rivera Aquino at Farella Braun.
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Cos. Must Prepare For More ESG Scrutiny From All Sides
As businesses face challenges to their environmental, social and governance efforts and statements — both from those who find them inadequate, and from those who think they go too far — it is more important than ever to proceed with care in implementing and disclosing ESG initiatives, say attorneys at Skadden.