As improvements in information technology continue to impact e-discovery, online research, case and matter management, and time and billing software, lawyers are better equipped to render quality legal services, retain more clients, and master the business of law. What are the next improvements in IT for the legal profession? Law.com Technology Editor Sean Doherty previews […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Both a general liability policy and an umbrella policy exclude coverage for bacteria-related liability, an Illinois federal judge found Jan. 21, granting an insurer’s motion for summary judgment seeking a declaration that it had no duty to defend its insured hotel owners and operators against underlying claims that guests contracted Legionnaire’s disease […]
BOSTON - A former member of Pfizer Inc.’s speakers’ bureau has agreed to plead guilty to health care fraud for falsifying data in support of a published study on pain management, according to a plea agreement filed Jan. 14 by the U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts (United States of America v. Scott Reuben, […]
HOUSTON - A Texas federal judge on Jan. 26 ordered Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to pay defense costs and expenses for directors and officers insureds in two actions stemming from the alleged Stanford Ponzi scheme, calling the insurer’s position “absurd” because “these circumstances are precisely why corporations procure D&O insurance on behalf of […]
LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles businessmen will pay more than $10 million under a consent judgment filed Jan. 14 that resolves federal and state civil allegations that they paid “recruiters” to solicit homeless people in Los Angeles shelters for unnecessary inpatient hospital stays at the City of Angels Medical Center in order to defraud […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Supreme Court on Jan. 21 extended until March 1 the time it has to grant or deny review in a case in which a court held that commonality questions prevented certification of an unfair competition law class action alleging that a satellite television provider misrepresented its high-definition content (Philip Kent […]
Listen up. Federal courts are starting to send a clear message to litigants on how to handle the preservation and production of “outlier” ESI found on cell phones and PDAs, voice mail systems, instant messaging systems, chat rooms, and websites, says Farrah Pepper, of counsel at Gibson Dunn.
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TAMPA, Fla. - The Florida federal judge presiding over a personal injury lawsuit against DuPont for exposure to Atrazine-contaminated Benlate denied a defense motion to strike a medical causation witness and grant the company summary judgment on Jan. 8; she also denied as inappropriate a pre-discovery order to disclose sought by DuPont (Guillermo Ramirez v. […]
NEW YORK - A federal judge in New York approved a $400 million settlement on Dec. 23 resolving a securities lawsuit alleging Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc.’s participation in a scheme involving client steering for the purpose of contingent commissions (In re Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. Securities Litigation, No. 04-8144, S.D. N.Y.; 2009 U.S. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on Jan. 12 released a decision denying an application for annulment of an arbitration award rendered in a dispute over an exploration license between Grenada and a production company, finding that it did not have independent jurisdiction to review corruption allegations against a […]