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'Love It But Leave It': Lawyers Have Mixed Reviews for 'Compromise' Direct-Action Statute Repeal

"When you get to a point where everybody's a little bit upset, maybe you've finally found a bill that can get past both chambers and get signed by the governor," said Sen. Blake Tillery, R-Vidalia, when he introduced the bill this legislative session.
5 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Superior Court: More Overlap in Case Facts Needed for Insurer to Deny D&O Coverage

Delaware Superior Court Judge Paul R. Wallace granted a California-based biotech company's motion for partial summary judgment.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

After Bumpy, 100-Year Ride, Ga. Legislature Taps Brakes on Direct-Action Litigation Against Liability Insurers of Motor Carriers 

The Georgia direct-action statutes still provide a narrow exception to the otherwise strident rule that direct actions by a claimant against an allegedly liable insured cannot be maintained until there is a judgment against the insured, and Georgia, therefore, remains in a reported minority of just four states allowing direct actions in any context.
10 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Parties Reach $15M Settlement for Slip and Fall That Necessitated About 100 Operative Procedures

The suit was mediated twice with no immediate resolution and slated for trial on Feb. 20, Timothy J. Fonseca of Corradino & Papa said.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Recent Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Misappropriation of Special Needs Trust Funds

SNTs are usually for the most vulnerable of structured settlement payees as a trusted means of asset protection. SNTs will receive the periodic payments directly from the annuity issuer, and the SNT trustees have a fiduciary duty to spend the trust situs for the benefit of each beneficiary.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Former Cosby Prosecutor Leaves Saltz Mongeluzzi for Anapol Weiss

Kristen Gibbons Feden, who delivered the closing argument in Cosby's second criminal trial as a Montgomery County prosecutor, launched the sexual abuse practice group at Saltz Mongeluzzi.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Vacated $28.6M Verdict Leads to Florida Supreme Court Precedent

"The egregious facts of this case make it especially unsuited for the majority's holding," Florida Supreme Court Justice Jorge Labarga wrote in the dissent.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Settlement Strategy: Line-by-Line Holt Demand Leads to $1.25M Resolution

The plaintiff is 82 years old.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Fulton Jury Returns $25.5M Verdict Decades After Woman Decapitated in Taxi

"This verdict brings us closer, but we're not done yet," said prevailing plaintiff counsel James Hugh Potts II of JHPII in Atlanta.
8 minute read

The Recorder

Genworth Insurance Accused of Terminating Policies to Compel Reinstatements, Forfeitures on Customers

The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court for the County of Sacramento, raised California Insurance Code Sections 10113.71 and 10113.72, which require life insurers to comply with a 60-day grace period and provide proper notice before terminating a policy for nonpayment of premiums.
3 minute read

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