Here is what you will find in our August Insurance Update: •Pollution Exclusion Bars Coverage for Criminal Proceeding Over Submission of Fraudulent Coal-Dust Samples, Sixth Circuit Affirms- •Fifth Circuit Finds Insurer...more
In a recent landmark decision, the Ohio Supreme Court declared that R.C. 1707.43 does not impose joint and several liability on a custodian of a self-directed individual retirement account (IRA) that purchased illegal...more
The familiar “in connection with the purchase or sale” securities-litigation requirement may not be unlimited in its breadth, after all. On February 26, the US Supreme Court pulled up short defendants in litigation by...more
On January 18, 2013, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari to resolve a circuit split concerning the extent to which the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 (“SLUSA”) preempts state law claims...more