To better advise artificial intelligence decisions, lawyers should know the benefits, shortcomings and best practices of incorporating insurance into AI risk management.
A federal appeals court’s April 30 reversal of a $1.6 billion judgment for a software maker “has sent ripples through the growing judgment preservation insurance industry,” according to a Bloomberg Law story.
A former nonequity partner at Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker is not entitled to long-term disability benefits because he failed to show that his chronic fatigue syndrome was so severe that it kept him from performing the regular duties of his job, a federal judge has ruled.
A lawyer who worked in the general counsel’s office at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. pleaded guilty Tuesday in connection with his participation in two online groups that exploited prepubescent girls.
Crowell & Moring is withdrawing from the representation of health insurer Humana after its litigation opponent accused the law firm of “unethical side-switching.”
Judge sanctioned after disclaiming family law knowledge
The New Jersey Supreme Court publicly reprimanded Judge Michael J. Kassel of the Camden County Superior Court in New Jersey on Wednesday Jun 2, 2023 3:16 PM CDT
A New Jersey appeals court ruled last week that an exclusion for “hostile/warlike action” in insurance policies covering "all risks" didn’t bar a pharmaceutical company’s claim for damages in a cyberattack.
A federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, has blocked requirements for insurers to provide some preventive-care services for free, including drugs for HIV prevention and screenings for depression, high blood pressure, sexually transmitted diseases and some kinds of cancer.
A federal judge in the Western District of Missouri has ruled for GEICO in a lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment that its auto policy doesn’t cover damages for a sexually transmitted disease contracted during car sex.
Houston-based law firm McClenny, Moseley & Associates has been suspended from practice in a Louisiana federal court because of a judge’s concerns about its purported representation of clients with claims related to Hurricanes Laura, Delta and Ida.
The GEICO General Insurance Co. should have been given a chance to intervene before a trial judge confirmed a $5.2 million arbitration award to a woman who contracted a sexually transmitted disease during car sex, the Missouri Supreme Court has ruled.
Indicted cryptocurrency exchange FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried is accusing Sullivan & Cromwell of pressuring him to seek bankruptcy protection for his company and filing documents nominating a new CEO after he tried to withdraw permission.
The founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX is facing criminal and civil securities charges in connection with an alleged $1.8 billion fraud for touting FTX Trading as a safe platform for crypto asset trading while diverting investor money to his privately held hedge fund.
A lawyer is denying allegations that she solicited Hurricane Ian clients using a truck designed to look like an operation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency or a state-run site. The lawyer said the Florida Bar’s petition for her emergency suspension is based on “a clear misunderstanding of the underlying facts and circumstances in this matter.”
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