Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dealt a major blow to mortgage investors in two parallel actions pending for the past few years. The impact proved to be fatal to one of the actions,...more
2/18/2022
/ Article III ,
Breach of Contract ,
Breach of Duty ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Deutsche Bank ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Investors ,
Mortgages ,
Representations and Warranties ,
RMBS ,
Standing ,
Statute of Limitations ,
Time-Barred Claims
Two more university tuition refund cases were recently decided at the pleadings stage, with mixed results for the university defendants. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled in the matter of...more
Business interruption insurance claims keep coming, cutting across a broad array of industries. The entertainment and media sectors are certainly not immune from pandemic-related losses. Last month, ViacomCBS became the...more
2/24/2021
/ Breach of Contract ,
Business Interruption ,
Business Losses ,
CBS ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Insurance Claims ,
Policy Exclusions ,
Policy Terms ,
Viacom
COVID-19 class actions continue to increase and are expected to spread to additional areas of law. Higher education has been one of the prime subjects of class actions thus far. To date, over 250 class action lawsuits have...more
2/10/2021
/ Article III ,
Breach of Contract ,
Class Action ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Educational Institutions ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Refunds ,
Standing ,
Tuition ,
Universities ,
Unjust Enrichment