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October 01, 2012 |

Canadian Deals

7 minute read
November 17, 1999 |

Ruling Eases Way For Liability Suits Against Georgia

Georgia's Supreme Court cleared the way for more liability suits against the state, ruling that a father can sue over the death of his daughter who was in foster care. The 2-year-old girl drowned in her foster parent's pool. At issue was whether the state could be liable for the death. The state is shielded from many tort claims through legislatively enacted sovereign immunity. But the unanimous decision means the natural father may take his $1 million claim to a jury.
6 minute read
March 17, 2008 |

Recent Activity in the No-Prejudice Debate

Daniel W. Gerber, a partner at Goldberg Segalla, and Nikia A. O'Neal, an associate at the firm, write that New York's no-prejudice rule sets forth a standard whereby an insurer does not need to demonstrate prejudice in order to deny coverage to an insured due to the insured's failure to comply with its obligation to act in good faith by providing timely notice to the insurer. But recent legislative proposals, they warn, challenge the continued existence of the no-prejudice rule.
11 minute read
May 06, 2013 |

Daily Decision Service Alert: Vol. 22, No. 87 — May 6, 2013

Daily decision alert.
16 minute read
November 11, 2002 |

Criminal Defendants Hobbled by Hobbs Act

The great divide over the federalization of violent crimes grew larger at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with the release of an evenly split en banc opinion affirming the conviction of a man sentenced to 97 years in prison for armed robbery. The man had argued that federal officials overstepped their bounds by using the Hobbs Act, a federal law aimed at criminals who interfere with interstate commerce, to prosecute him.
5 minute read
December 22, 2005 |

Lawyer of the Year: Patrick Fitzgerald

No one else in 2005 roiled politics inside the Beltway and the media that feed on it like the prosecutor from Chicago, Patrick Fitzgerald.
6 minute read
September 16, 2013 |

Q&A: Richard J. Holwell

Former Southern District Judge Richard J. Holwell, who stepped down from the bench in 2012 to start boutique litigation firm Holwell Shuster ' Goldberg, spoke with Commercial Litigation Insider about transitioning back into private practice, life on the bench and what surprised him as a judge.
14 minute read
September 27, 2004 |

Bullish on Settling

Resolving cases before legal expenses pile up certainly isn't a novel corporate strategy. But over the past decade, few companies have pushed settlements for product liability claims as aggressively and systematically as Toro Co., the outdoor equipment manufacturer.
10 minute read

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