Legal News

Lloyd's of London's "Litigation and Business: Transatlantic Trends"
Lloyd's of London has issued its latest report "Litigation and Business: Transatlantic Trends" (pdf). In this report, Lloyd's predicts that class action litigation will grow in Europe, and notes that Portugal, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden already have mass litigation...

Eighteenth-Century Lessons for Credit Default Swaps
Of late I've been reading Niall Ferguson's The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, and I've been struck again at how similar the rise of the modern CDS market is with the rise of maritime insurance at Lloyd's Coffee House in the early 18th century...

Arrivederci Aroma
Lloyd's of London, not Starbuck's, is almost certainly history's most important coffee house, and the Lloyd's markets are justifiably famous for their ability to place insurance coverage for unusual risks, as exemplified by this list of 9 Odd Things Insured...

Lloyd's hanging on, but only just ...
As yet unavailable anywhere except the LexisNexis Butterworths subscription-only service is Lloyd's and another v Lloyd's Publishing Group Ltd, a Chancery Division (England and Wales) decision of Mr Justice Warren...

Collection Lawsuits on the Rise
With the economy down, lawsuits against collection agencies in the Northern District of Alabama almost quadrupled, reports The Birmingham News. This past year, 158 lawsuits were filed against collection agencies and credit bureaus for violations of the Fair Debt Collection...

Warns Conference Info
Ariana Levinson (Louisville-Brandeis) writes to tell us about the upcoming annual Warns Conference. Here are the details: Warns Conference ? Save the Date ? not only to earn CLE but to hear some great speakers As I mentioned before, the...

Employee Lawsuits (An Introduction and Topic Overview)
How employers can cope with the siege of employee lawsuits

Employee Lawsuits: Negligent Hiring and Retention
Employers must check references, criminal records, other background material.

Bunk Beds
Injuries on the rise

Hormone Replacement Therapy Lawsuits See Multi-Million Dollar Settlements
HRT Lawsuits Pharma Faces Multi Million Dollar Settlements

FDA Warns of Potentially Fatal Errors with GDH-PQQ Glucose Monitoring Technology
Glucose Monitoring Technology FDA Warns of Potentially Fatal Errors

Countrywide Financial Corp
Served with Two Lawsuits

Comcast
facing lawsuits from BitTorrent Throttling

Furloughed Workers
File Employment Lawsuits