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Kaufman & Canoles

K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - April 2025 #3

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The settlement of a $2.8 billion federal class-action antitrust lawsuit filed by athletes against the NCAA and the largest conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC) was approved by the defendants and plaintiffs in...more

White and Williams LLP

New York Court Permits Asbestos Claimants to Proceed Against Insurers with Buyout Agreements

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A recent New York federal district court decision addresses a number of issues in the context of asbestos coverage involving an insolvent insured, holding that policy buyout agreements between the insured and its insurers did...more

White and Williams LLP

Eleventh Circuit Finds No Bad Faith Where Insurer Failed to Provide “Mirror-Image” Response to Claimant’s Demand

In Florida, an insurer is required to work diligently on the insured’s behalf to avoid an excess judgment, with the “same haste and precision as if it were in the insured’s shoes”. Harvey v. GEICO General Insurance Company,...more

Freeman Law

Are Lawsuit or Settlement Damages Taxable?

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Taxpayers who suffer from physical injuries or physical sickness can generally take advantage of a special provision in the Code that makes such damages non-taxable. See I.R.C. § 104(a)(2). Generally, this can be an easy...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Shouldn’t Protecting Our Soldiers Be an Absolute? 3M Apparently Thought Giving Second Rate Hearing Protection Was Enough — It...

Honor and Protect Our Soldiers - Tales of corporate wrongdoing have pervaded society for decades. Take the Takata airbag scandal, in which a Japanese manufacturer of the automobile-safety device churned out tens of...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

How Can Medicare Affect My Personal Injury Settlement?

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Medicare is the federal health insurance program that covers people who are 65 or older and certain younger individuals with disabilities. If you are a Medicare recipient and you are injured, Medicare may cover the cost of...more

Hogan Lovells

The Importance of Signatures: General Motors’ Unsigned But Fully Negotiated Deal Not Enforceable

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U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn recently decided that a fully-negotiated agreement would not be enforced in the absence of required signatures. The agreement contemplated a settlement between the General Motors bankruptcy...more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

Ambiguous Scope of 998 Offer Forfeits Potential Post-Offer Cost Recovery

In Yolanda Ignacio v. Marilynne Caracciolo (No. B266930), the California Court of Appeal for the Second District found that a settlement offer seeking to release a party from claims outside the scope of the litigation at...more

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