Law Firm ILN-telligence Podcast | Episode 92: Ron Davis | Fogler Rubinoff
How to Secure Advances to Fund Legal Fees
How to Get Insurance to Pay for a Client's Litigation Defense
Schlam Stone & Dolan Partner Joshua Wurtzel Discusses Account Stated Claim for Law Firms Suing Nonpaying Clients
A Robot Walks Into a Courtroom
Day 7 of One Month to Better Investigations and Report-How Investigations Inform Remediation
Connecticut Collections: How to get paid if you are owed money? Part 1: Pre and Post-Judgement Collection Specifics
The insured, Match Group, LLC, brought a coverage action against its insurer, Beazley Underwriting Limited, and obtained a judgment against Beazley that Beazley appealed. In turn, the insured moved to recover the attorney’s...more
On the one hand, business insurance provides in-house counsel with the peace of mind to know that if their company is involved in a covered event, the insurer will be responsible for some or all of the damages and also may be...more
Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial started this week; and on the same day, he sued one of his director & officer insurers. And a lot of people are asking, why? Is the timing a coincidence or on purpose? Shouldn’t he be...more
A Massachusetts federal court, applying Massachusetts law, has held that the allocation of legal fees between two corporations is determined based on what reasonably would have been negotiated had each party in the joint...more
Disputes regarding ownership interests often arise in the context of closely held corporations, particularly when directors, officers, or majority shareholders sell or acquire ownership interests in the company. These...more
Long-tail claims involve continuous or progressive injuries that occur over the course of multiple years. Often these claims occur in the context of long-latency diseases, such as those arising from asbestos exposure, or...more
The United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois has held that an insurance policy requires allocation of defense costs based on the parties’ relative legal exposure if it clearly and unequivocally...more
On May 8, 2019, all five commissioners of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) testified before a congressional hearing on data privacy regulation and enforcement. At the hearing, the FTC commissioners testified that the...more
On March 13, 2018, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals held that an insurance company can pay the proceeds of a life insurance policy into the court when there is a dispute as to who is the rightful beneficiary. At...more
A group of Kentucky hospitals sought reimbursement for legal fees incurred in two lawsuits related to the insolvency of their insurer, Reciprocal of America (“ROA”). In the 1970s and 1980s, the hospitals created two trusts to...more
Relying on past New York precedent, a New York state trial court determined the language of certain reinsurance certificates at issue were unambiguous, declining to accept plaintiff’s extraneous evidence “that the custom and...more
The last quarter of 2015 produced two interesting decisions from the Appeals Court. In Brady v. Citizens Union Savings Bank, 88 Mass. App. Ct. 416 (2015), the Court addressed whether legal fees and costs already paid to...more
In June, I blogged about County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors v. Superior Court, 235 Cal. App. 4th 1154 (2015). In that case, the California Court of Appeal (Second Appellate District) concluded that legal defense bills...more