Highlights of the latest insurance cases from around the country.
August 30, 2012ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
The recently published First Circuit opinion in Rosciti v. Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, presents an increasingly common interplay between two somewhat different and often conflicting areas of law — insurance coverage and bankruptcy.
August 30, 2012David A. Grossbaum, Charles M. Tatelbaum and Matthew R. WatsonA look at recent items of interest to you and your practice.
August 30, 2012ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |A look at legal reforms that are and are not reducing med-mal lawsuits.
August 30, 2012Linda S. CrawfordSo-called Intellectual Property exclusions in commercial general liability ("GL") insurance policies have received relatively little attention from the courts. However, the ubiquity of new advertising technologies, recent appellate decisions confirming GL "personal and advertising injury" coverage for patent claims, and new claims that policyholders are facing for alleged electronic invasions of privacy may well turn the IP exclusion into the proverbial "elephant in the room.
August 30, 2012Martin MyersRecent matters have pushed the topic of technology assisted review (TAR) into the judicial limelight, generating much discussion ' and confusion ' in the legal community.
August 30, 2012Shelley PodolnyApplying technology to an inefficient process will give you a net gain of zero. Throwing technology at a problem without first looking at the process will rarely fix it. In fact, it may exacerbate the problem by adding another layer of complexity to existing process challenges.
August 30, 2012Debbie Foster and Liz LamarThe Third Circuit has determined that, when a patent-holding drug manufacturer makes payments to potential generic competitors to keep them out of the marketplace, that fact alone serves as prima facie evidence of violation of U.S. antitrust laws.
August 30, 2012Janice G. Inman