Insurance Litigation, Rules of Civil Procedure

Georgia Passes Tort Reform Package Signaling Important Shift in Future Litigation

BCLP on 5/2/2025

Georgia has enacted the most comprehensive tort reform legislation the state has seen in nearly 20 years. Passed during the 2025 Georgia legislative session, the legislation impacts multiple aspects of Georgia tort...more

A New Era for Extra-Contractual Damages in Oregon - What We Know and What We Are Learning Six Months Since Moody

Cozen O'Connor on 6/27/2024

The start of 2024 marked the end of an insurance era in Oregon. On December 29, 2023—the last Friday before the new year—the Oregon Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in Moody v. Oregon Community Credit Union,...more

A Majority Court and a Dissenting Justice: A Glimpse into the Future?

Fox Rothschild LLP on 12/20/2023

The four civil cases decided by the Supreme Court on 15 December 2023 hang together by a focus on minimalism and, in three of them, dissenting opinions by Justice Earls. Based on the current composition of the Supreme Court,...more

Effective immediately: Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.530(a) applies to certain non-final orders

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP on 5/8/2023

Most trial lawyers tend to use reconsideration and rehearing interchangeably. But until recently they served very different purposes. Motions for rehearing filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.530 applied only...more

Effective Immediately: Jury Requests To Review Testimony In Civil Cases Is Governed By Florida Rule Of Civil Procedure 1.453

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP on 3/31/2023

Previously, the Second District Court of Appeal extended to civil cases the holding in Hazuri v. State, 91 So. 3d 836 (Fla. 2012), a criminal case addressing readbacks to the jury following a request for trial transcripts....more

Without Jurisdiction or Authority to Review, California Appellate Court Dismisses Appeal of Trial Court’s Statement of Decision

Carlton Fields on 1/28/2020

Finding that a California trial court’s statement of decision was not a judgment or appealable order, the California Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, having no jurisdiction or authority to review it....more

Was tun, wenn das Gericht das „persönliche Erscheinen“ der Partei anordnet?

Latham & Watkins LLP on 9/16/2019

In einer bemerkenswerten Entscheidung hat das OLG Karlsruhe jüngst ein Ordnungsgeld gegen ein Versicherungsunternehmen verhängt, weil dieses trotz einer „Anordnung des persönlichen Erscheinens“ nach § 141 ZPO weder ein...more

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