An insurer that brings an action against its insured in California where the insured asserts a counterclaim alleging bad faith may consider filing a motion to strike based on California’s anti-SLAPP statute. However, a recent federal appellate decision suggests that the insurer will face an uphill..
On Dec. 31, the Brexit transition period ended, and the U.K. formally exited the European Union. Perhaps surprisingly, despite such a seismic shift in the U.K. constitution, the key principles of U.K. data protection law remain fundamentally unchanged...
Introduction Courts across the United States universally have been impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While some jurisdictions have coped well, other jurisdictions have struggled to provide safe and meaningful access to courts...
On large projects, construction and design firms may purchase project-specific insurance policies to provide a single source of available insurance for claims related to that particular project..
As we approach the end of an unprecedented year, we look ahead to the next twelve months. In addition to the ongoing strain on company resources caused by the pandemic, we expect companies operating in the UK and their insurers will face additional data protection burdens in 2021
For decades, debt collection agencies have operated within a regulatory framework that requires compliance with a hodgepodge of dated legislation subject to various interpretations across different jurisdictions.
Texas Supreme Court will consider an opportunity to reshape the contours of the Stowers doctrine, which requires insurers to consider settlement demands within policy limits with a “degree of care and diligence which an ordinarily prudent person would exercise in the management of his own business”
There have been positive developments for defendants in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) landscape this week.On February 19, 2020, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued the much-awaited opinion in Gadelhak v. AT&T Servs., Inc., No. 19-1738, 2020 WL 808270 (7th Cir. Feb. 19, 2020)
Ransomware attacks continue to proliferate across the globe and it is expected that 2020 will see continued attacks. Trend Micro Inc. reported a 77% surge in ransomware[1] attacks during the first half of 2019
In two decisions rendered this month, the UK courts have permitted two major class-action lawsuits under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regime. The suits prove that the GDPR opens the door for large representative suits on behalf of data breach victims..
