The Insurance and Reinsurance Department of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge invite you to join them for the following complimentary webinar: “The Continuing Nightmare of Data Breach and Privacy Risks and Regulations: Increasing Risks, New Regulations, and Changing Deadlines.” 

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Read More EAPD Complimentary Webinar: Privacy and Data Breaches (December 1, 2009)

On Monday November 23, 2009, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) issued a press statement and study results demonstrating a “strong association” between homes with the Chinese manufactured drywall and levels of hydrogen sulfide and corrosion of metals in those homes. 

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Read More Chinese Drywall – Consumer Product Safety Commission Finds Link Between Corrosion and Chinese Manufactured Drywall

The Senate Judiciary Committee recently approved two bills on November 5, 2009.  The first bill, the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2009 (S. 1490), amends the federal criminal code to make fraud in connection with the unauthorized access of sensitive personally identifiable information (“PII”) subject to federal racketeering charges. 

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Read More Senate Panel Approves Data Breach Bills

On November 10, 2009, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“AICPA”) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of its nearly 350,000 certified public accountant members against the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) to seek an injunction barring the FTC from applying its Red Flags Rule to AICPA members. 

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Read More Accountants Seek Injunction to Bar FTC Red Flags Rule Enforcement

Healthcare reform efforts headed into another weekend showdown, as the Senate kicked-off consideration of its legislation with a key procedural vote on Saturday evening.  The timing of that vote was solidified once Democratic leaders released their merged healthcare reform bill last Wednesday – ending weeks of negotiations and speculation over what shape the bill would take. 

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Read More Last Week in DC: The Healthcare Reform Debate – November 23, 2009

After weeks of debate on the various legislative pieces of a large-scale financial regulatory overhaul, the House Financial Services Committee was expected to complete its work this week.  However, a committee vote to approve the final piece of the overhaul – the systemic risk bill (H.R. 3996) – was postponed Thursday when Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) withheld their support for the measure. 

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Read More Completion of Financial Regulatory Overhaul Delayed in House, Federal Reserve Auditing Provision Added

Reversing the intermediate appellate court, New York’s highest court recently granted summary judgment in favor of two excess insurers based upon their policies’ prior knowledge exclusion. 

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Read More NY Court of Appeals Applies Pennsylvania Law to Bar Coverage For Malpractice Claim Pursuant To Prior Knowledge Exclusion

The New York Supreme Court, Erie County, recently held that a lawyers’ professional liability policy constitutes a “policy or contract insuring against liability for injury to person” within the meaning of Insurance Law § 3420(a)(3)-(4). 

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Read More NY Lower Court Holds That Insurance Law § 3420(a) Applies to Lawyer’s Claims-Made Malpractice Policy

In Accentuate Limited v Asigra Inc (A company incorporated under the laws of Canada) [2009] EWHC 265, the English Court was asked to overturn the earlier decision of a District Judge which set aside an order giving the English claimant, Accentuate, leave to serve the Canadian defendant, Asigra, outside the jurisdiction and which granted a stay of proceedings. 

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Read More UK: English High Court Refuses to Enforce a Canadian Arbitration Award Which Failed to Give Effect to Mandatory EU Regulations