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Cyber Monday Explodes

Michael Lear-Olimpi

Little was virtual beyond a typical conversational reference to this holiday season's once-again record-setting Cyber Monday and other online-holiday shopping excursions. The retail-industry dubbed day for online shopping and incentives for consumers to cybershop hit the jackpot with an echoing boom Nov. 29, racking up the biggest day of online shopping in history and breaking the billion-dollar mark

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Computer and Funds Transfer Fraud Endorsements Issues in Data Breach Claims

Scott N. Godes

If your e-commerce company were to suffer a data breach, do you know that there is insurance coverage for related costs under some commercial crime-insurance policies? It is so. An Ohio federal court has held that a computer and funds transfer fraud endorsement in an AIG commercial-crime policy provides coverage for a data breach.

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Decisions of Interest

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Recent rulings of importance.

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'Pre-Nupitis' ' Diagnosis and Treatment

Marcy L. Wachtel

Pre-nupitis" is a "disease" that afflicts the so-called less-monied spouse (the LMS) who, in upwards of 95% of the cases, is the bride-to-be.

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New Challenges to DOMA

Janice G. Inman

Two recently filed suits, one in Connecticut and one in New York, claim that the United States, by relying on the Defense of Marriage Act to deny the validity of same-sex marriages violated the constitutional rights of the plaintiff gay and lesbian married couples.

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Matrimonial Fee Dispute Arbitration

Lee Rosenberg

Fee dispute arbitration, which is usually a condition precedent to suit, is an oft-underused vehicle to help secure payment of fees in a less formal environment where the client may see that resolution is the best option.

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Med Mal News

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Drug & Device News

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