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Illinois Court Ruling Allows Zurich to Proceed With Subrogation Action in $3 Million Builder’s Risk Claim
Oct 25 2023 // Zurich American Insurance Co. may pursue a subrogation lawsuit against a subcontractor that it says forced it to pay a nearly $3 million builder’s risk claim by designing a defective stormwater detention system...
South Carolina Prosecutors Want to Limit Minority Leader’s Sway Over Judges
Oct 25 2023 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nine of South Carolina`s 16 elected prosecutors are asking to remove all legislators who are lawyers from a committee that decides which judicial candidates are put before the General Assembly...
Judge Rules Against Alex Jones, Denies Bankruptcy Protection in Sandy Hook Lawsuit
Oct 24 2023 // HOUSTON (AP) – A Texas judge has ruled that Infowars host Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying more than $1.1 billion to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school...
Ohio Governor Signs New Law Ensuring Full Compensation for Boy Scout Abuse Victims
Oct 16 2023 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Victims of child sexual abuse in Ohio will see more compensation for the crimes committed against them while in the Boy Scouts of America after Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed a new law...
AM Best Tweaks State Farm Outlook to Negative After Weather, Regulatory Issues
Oct 16 2023 // The AM Best financial rating firm has downgraded its outlook for multiple State Farm insurance companies due to weather losses and regulations that the rating firm said hinder the insurance giant’s ability to...
Judge Denies Firm’s Claim for Hurricane Damages Lawsuit Fees
Oct 16 2023 // A federal judge rejected a request by McClenny Moseley & Associates to claim an interest in legal fees and expenses from a hurricane damage lawsuit, saying the law firm obtained its clients illegally by using a...
Bankruptcy Judge Denies Survivors’ ‘Hopeless’ Bid to Sue Rockville Diocese Insurers
Oct 5 2023 // The judge overseeing the Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre bankruptcy has denied a request by the committee representing sexual abuse claimants for permission to sue the church’s insurers, calling the filing a...
Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Alleging Discrimination in Texas A&M Faculty Fellowship Program
Oct 5 2023 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against Texas A&M University claiming a faculty fellowship program at the flagship in College Station discriminated against white and Asian male candidates. In a decision...
Trump Civil Trial Day 3: Trump Appeals Pre-Trial Ruling; Judge Chides Lawyers
Oct 5 2023 // A judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial pounded his fists in frustration with the former U.S. president’s lawyers on Wednesday for what he described as redundant and “ridiculous”...
California Judge Rules Tesla Owners Must Arbitrate False Ad Claims Over Autopilot Feature
Oct 2 2023 // A California federal judge has ruled that a group of people who own cars made by Tesla Inc must pursue claims that the company misled the public about its autopilot features in individual arbitration rather than court. The...
Judge Dismisses Charges Against Philadelphia Officer in Fatal Traffic Stop Shooting
Sep 29 2023 // A judge dismissed murder and other charges this week against a Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed a driver through a rolled-up driver’s side window, agreeing with defense attorneys who said the officer...
Illinois Appellate Court Rules Freight Broker Not Liable for $18M Jury Award in Teen’s Brain Injury Case
Sep 28 2023 // A freight broker is not liable for an $18 million jury award to the mother of a teenage boy who suffered a brain injury when he was struck by a truck, an Illinois appellate court ruled Wednesday. A panel of the 1st...
Judge Refuses to Block Venture Capital Fund’s Grants for Black Women
Sep 27 2023 // A federal judge in Atlanta on Tuesday rejected a bid by the anti-affirmative activist behind the successful U.S. Supreme Court challenge to race-conscious college admissions policies to bar a small venture capital fund...
Fine and Punishment: The Process of Insurance Regulatory Actions
Sep 27 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Insurance industry professionals tend to underestimate the business threat of regulatory actions. While data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners...
Federal Judge Rejects Law Firm’s Claim for Hurricane Damage Lawsuit Fees, Citing Illegal Client Acquisition
Sep 26 2023 // A federal judge rejected a request by McClenny Moseley & Associates to claim an interest in legal fees and expenses from a hurricane damage lawsuit, saying the law firm obtained its clients illegally by using a...
Thomson Reuters AI Copyright Dispute Must Go to Trial, Judge Says
Sep 26 2023 // A jury must decide the outcome of a lawsuit by information services company Thomson Reuters accusing Ross Intelligence of unlawfully copying content from its legal-research platform Westlaw to train a competing artificial...
OpenAI CEO: Possible to Get Regulation Wrong, but Should Not Fear it
Sep 26 2023 // The CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Monday that it was possible to get regulation wrong but it is important and should not be feared, amid global concerns about rapid advances in artificial intelligence, or AI. Many...
NC Commissioner, Firefighters Question New Law Making Fire Marshal a Separate Office
Sep 26 2023 // North Carolina’s Republican supermajority in the legislature has thrown a curveball to the state’s insurance commissioner and fire marshal, a position that until recently has mostly stayed above partisan...
Director of Minnesota’s New Marijuana Regulatory Agency Resigns Amidst Illegal Cannabis Sales Allegations
Sep 25 2023 // ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The recently appointed director of Minnesota’s new marijuana regulatory agency Erin Dupree has resigned amid reports that she sold illegal cannabis products in the state. Dupree ran a...
Oklahoma Judge Arrested After Allegedly Firing Shots at Parked Cars and Crashing into Woman’s Vehicle
Sep 25 2023 // OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – An Oklahoma judge was arrested in Austin, Texas, last week after authorities say he opened fire on parked vehicles while out driving, striking at least one of them, and intentionally crashed into a...
