In anticipation of a constitutional challenge, Congress included findings with the new health care law intended to show it is a regulation of commerce. The taxation power isn’t mentioned.
Arent Fox has launched a new insurance and reinsurance practice in New York, making it one among a number of law firms that are looking to refocus its practice areas…
An insurance coverage partner who has spent his entire career working at White & Williams will soon be the midsize Philadelphia-based law firm’s new chairman and managing partner.
Ludwig van Beethoven was deaf in the latter part of his life, when he composed his famous Ninth Symphony. So attorney Daniel Eidsmoe doesn’t see being color-blind as a significant…
A federal judge in Connecticut has given a preliminary thumbs-up to an insurer’s agreement to pay $72.5 million to settle a class action over the structured settlements it provided to…
New York lawyer Arthur Kramer, the co-founder of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, set up an insurance deal before he died designed to raise immediate cash for family members and…
Ordinarily, workers’ compensation provides the remedy for an employee who is injured or killed at work. But attorney Barry Cohen says he expects tort law to trump workers’ comp immunity…
Investors who lost at least $25 million in a Ponzi scheme run by a lawyer who apparently killed himself and his family last year may get the proceeds of an…
Legal fees charged by Ballard Spahr and a computer forensic expert the law firm retained are nearing $750,000 in a four-month-old matter concerning a school district’s controversial remote activation of…
In the last year, insurance companies have paid out more than $6 million to lawyers for Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford, who is accused of masterminding a $7 billion Ponzi…
Reversing and remanding a trial court’s ruling on the appropriate legal fee for plaintiff’s personal injury lawyers who negotiated a $18 million settlement, including $6 million in attorney’s fees, a…
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