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Features

In the Marketplace Image

In the Marketplace

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Highlights of the latest equipment leasing news from around the country.

Ways to Avoid Electronic Contract Killers in Second Life Image

Ways to Avoid Electronic Contract Killers in Second Life

David M. Klein

The creators of Second Life &mdash; an online virtual community &mdash; faced some real-life problems in a Pennsylvania court recently. In <i>Bragg v. Linden Research, Inc.,</i> No. CIV.A06 4925 (E.D.P.A. May 30, 2007), Judge Eduardo C. Robreno, denying a motion to compel arbitration, offers attorneys and their clients some useful guidelines to consider when drafting standard electronic form contracts.

Features

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Equipment Leasing and CERCLA Liability

Russell V. Randle & David G. Mayer

In this month's installment, we focus on some of the special issues facing equipment leasing as a result of the Supreme Court's decision in <i>United States v. Atlantic Research Corporation</i>. We recommend some steps in order to address the increased litigation and liability risks facing owners and lessors of equipment, risks that few have addressed.

Features

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Shari'ah Finance and the Equipment Leasing Industry

Jonathan Fleisher

<i>Shari'ah</i> or Islamic-compliant financing is gaining a foothold in international finance transactions. This article provides an overview to equipment finance professionals as to certain opportunities that may exist within this market for both increasing customer base and obtaining sources of capital.

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December issue in PDF format

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Case Briefs

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Highlights of the latest insurance cases from around the country.

Features

e-Discovery Costs and General Liability Coverage: Who Pays When the Rules Are Violated? Image

e-Discovery Costs and General Liability Coverage: Who Pays When the Rules Are Violated?

William P. Shelley & Kellyn J. W. Muller

The e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the potential ramifications resulting from violations of these rules implicate an entire subset of potential policyholder liability for which coverage will be sought, including indemnification for monetary sanctions and high verdicts.

Features

Food and Product Safety Litigation: How Will It Affect General Liability Insurers? Image

Food and Product Safety Litigation: How Will It Affect General Liability Insurers?

Laura A. Foggan

Litigation stemming from recent product and food safety failures presents a number of important insurance questions under general liability policies. These include questions about the scope of the products-operations hazard, whether non-products coverage is implicated by new theories advanced by the plaintiffs' bar, whether 'no injury' claims for economic harm can be shoehorned into coverage, and whether the many class action claims seeking medical monitoring for potential bodily injury will be covered under general liability policies.

Features

Business Income and Other Time-Element Coverages: Issues Likely to Arise from the 2007 California Wildfires Claims Image

Business Income and Other Time-Element Coverages: Issues Likely to Arise from the 2007 California Wildfires Claims

John N. Ellison, Richard P. Lewis & Matthew D. Rosso

This article examines the nature and purpose of business interruption insurance and forecasts the anticipated coverage issues likely to arise from the 2007 California wildfires. It also highlights a number of other business income coverages that may be implicated for wildfire victims.

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