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Daily Business Review

Geico Loses $14.5 Million Award to Injured Miami Motorist

A jury awards $14.5 million to a Miami chiropractor who suffered permanent back injuries in a collision with an uninsured motorist near the Golden Glades interchange in 2004.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Feds Name Compliance Expert Bart Schwartz as GM's Monitor

General Motors Co. general counsel Craig Glidden has welcomed a new federal monitor to oversee the company's compliance with its deferred prosecution agreement (DPA), while adding another new job responsibility to the GC office.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Volkswagen Emissions Litigation Turning Unwieldy

Chaos is building in courts across the country as about 400 Volkswagen emissions class actions have raced forward—with two federal judges ordering immediate settlement talks—despite a pending decision on whether to move the cases to multidistrict litigation.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Not Helping Policyholder With Claim Costs GEICO $9.6 Million

GEICO General Insurance Co. was ordered to pay $9.6 million after one of its car insurance policyholders successfully sued the company for bad faith.
3 minute read

The Recorder

The Road Ahead for Automated Cars

Safety and liability factors may be shaped by the mix of autonomous vehicles and human drivers, writes Hilary Rowen.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

GM Hires From Outside to Beef Up Litigation, Mend Fences With Feds

General Motors Tuesday announced the hiring of two high-powered deputy general counsel as it fills the void left by lawyers ousted during its ignition switch scandal last year.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Ford's GC to Drive Off Into Retirement

For more than a decade general counsel David Leitch has led Ford Motor Co.'s legal department. But Tuesday Ford announced that Leitch, 54, has "elected to retire" at year's end.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Defrauded Insurers Should Not Have to Pay

By | October 16, 2015
The New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously held that where an insured obtains an automobile insurance policy by fraud, the policy can be rescinded, but the insurer remains liable to innocent third parties for the contracted coverage amount.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court of Appeals Addresses Plaintiff's Prima Facie Burden

In his No-Fault Insurance Law Wrap-Up, David M. Barshay discusses 'Viviane Etienne Medical Care v. Country-Wide Ins. Co.', where the Court of Appeals held that the plaintiff, a medical provider office, demonstrated "prima facie entitlement to summary judgment by submitting evidence that payment of no-fault benefits are overdue, and proof of its claim, using the statutory billing form, was mailed to and received by the defendant insurer."
10 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Volkswagen Emissions Cheating Scandal—Another Compliance 1.0 Train Wreck

The German auto giant has been reeling from a scandal of monumental proportions after admitting that it had been using a "defeat software" to help its diesel cars pass emissions testing in the U.S. and Europe. So what went wrong here?
5 minute read

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