Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 382: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Proximate Cause
Second Circuit Decision Potentially Broadens RICO Proximate Cause Element - RICO Report Podcast
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Proximate Cause - An Important Practice Tip for Personal Injury Lawyers
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A recent update to New Jersey’s Model Civil Jury Charges marks a significant development in legal malpractice law—and directly reflects the work of attorneys in our Mount Laurel, New Jersey office, Jack Slimm and Jeremy...more
This week, the Court addresses the availability of a Bivens cause of action against federal officials and certifies two insurance law questions to the Montana Supreme Court. The Court holds that a Bivens cause of action...more
The defamation cases brought by Johnny Depp and Amber Heard against each other, entertaining as they were to many Americans, involved complex issues of law as applied to the facts alleged by the parties. For the jury to reach...more
Obtaining additional insured coverage is one critical tool in the risk transfer toolbox. Owners and contractors on construction projects routinely ask “downstream” contractors and subcontractors to sign contracts wherein the...more
With unprecedented activity online, cybercrime is growing in frequency, sophistication and aggregate effect. Despite the increased visibility of cybercrime, cybersecurity continues to lag behind this curve. Cybercriminals...more
In Westfield Ins. Group v. Pure Renovations, LLC, 2019-Ohio-4773, 2019 Ohio App. LEXIS 4829, the Court of Appeals of Ohio considered whether the lower court properly granted the defendant’s summary judgment motion. In its...more
One commentator has called the scope of Additional Insured coverage “[o]ne of the oldest and most confounding debates in the insurance world.” Another chapter was written the other day in Pioneer Cent. Sch. Dist. v. Preferred...more
First party insurance claims involving multiple perils present unique challenges when assessing whether an insurance policy provides coverage. For example, suppose an insurance policy covers damage resulting from fire, but...more
In ACE American Ins. Co. v. Exide Technologies, Inc. and The Wattles Co., No. 1:16-CV-1600-MHC (N.D. Ga. Sept. 20, 2017), the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Georgia applied a continuous trigger theory to...more
On July 20, 2017, the Second District Court of Appeal issued an order that closed its books on the Sebo appeal. Mr. Sebo made a homeowner’s claim to American Home contending construction deficiencies had allowed water to...more
Professionals and practitioners in first party property insurance are likely familiar with the efficient proximate cause rule, which requires an insurance policy to provide coverage where “a covered peril sets in motion a...more
We have discussed on a number of occasions the issue of causation when there are multiple causes of loss, some covered and some not covered. Most jurisdictions apply what is known as the efficient proximate cause analysis...more
Last Friday, a unanimous panel of the Ninth Circuit held that loss from the excluded peril of mudslide occurring one month after a wildfire could be covered as the “direct” result of the blaze. In Stankova v. Metropolitan...more