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Public Policy And The Insurability Of Cyber Risk, Asaf Lubin Apr 2021

Public Policy And The Insurability Of Cyber Risk, Asaf Lubin

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In June 2017, the food and beverage conglomerate Mondelez International became a victim of the NotPetya ransomware attack. Around 1,700 of its servers and 24,000 of the company’s laptops were suddenly and permanently unusable. Commercial supply and distribution disruptions, theft of credentials from many users, and unfulfilled customer orders soon followed, leading to losses that totaled more than $100 million. Unfortunately, Zurich, which had sold the company a property insurance policy that included a variety of coverages, informed Mondelez in 2018 that cyber coverage would be denied under the policy based on the “war exclusion clause.” This case, now pending, …


Insuring Evolving Technology, Asaf Lubin Jan 2021

Insuring Evolving Technology, Asaf Lubin

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The study of the interaction between law and technology is more critical today than ever before. Advancements in artificial intelligence, information communications, biological and chemical engineering, and space-faring technologies, to name but a few examples, are forcing us to reexamine our traditional understanding of basic concepts in torts and insurance law.

Yet, few insurance professionals and scholars will identify themselves as working in the field of “law-and-technology.” For many of them, technology is “just a fact about the world like any other,” as Ryan Calo once put it, not one that always merits “special care.”

This short paper is an …


Preparatory Negligence, Robert H. Heidt Jan 2012

Preparatory Negligence, Robert H. Heidt

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This Essay discusses the appropriate significance in tort law of a negligent attempt to perform an injurious activity when the evidence is insufficient to show the actual performance of the activity was negligent. The author calls such a negligent attempt uncoupled with sufficient evidence of negligent performance "preparatory negligence." An example would be driving a car when one is so inebriated that the decision to drive is negligent but those injured in a subsequent accident are unable to show the inebriated driver's actual driving was negligent. The author argues that preparatory negligence alone should never warrant tort liability. Rather, those …


Recasting Behavior: An Essay For Beginning Law Students, Robert H. Heidt Jan 1988

Recasting Behavior: An Essay For Beginning Law Students, Robert H. Heidt

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Seduction And The Myth Of The Ideal Woman, M. B. W. Sinclair Jan 1987

Seduction And The Myth Of The Ideal Woman, M. B. W. Sinclair

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Accident, Mistake, And Rules Of Liability In The Fourteenth-Century Law Of Torts, Morris S. Arnold Jan 1979

Accident, Mistake, And Rules Of Liability In The Fourteenth-Century Law Of Torts, Morris S. Arnold

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Was Prosser's Folly Also Traynor's? Or Should The Judge's Monument Be Moved To A Firmer Site?, Reed Dickerson Jan 1974

Was Prosser's Folly Also Traynor's? Or Should The Judge's Monument Be Moved To A Firmer Site?, Reed Dickerson

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Toward A Test For Strict Liability In Torts, Jon T. Hirschoff, Guido Calabresi Jan 1972

Toward A Test For Strict Liability In Torts, Jon T. Hirschoff, Guido Calabresi

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The Theory Of Economic Policy And The Law Of Torts, Robert L. Birmingham Jan 1970

The Theory Of Economic Policy And The Law Of Torts, Robert L. Birmingham

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The Abc's Of Products Liability -- With A Close Look At Section 402a And The Code, Reed Dickerson Jan 1969

The Abc's Of Products Liability -- With A Close Look At Section 402a And The Code, Reed Dickerson

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Survey Of North Carolina Case Law: Torts: Part Two, Philip C. Thorpe Jan 1966

Survey Of North Carolina Case Law: Torts: Part Two, Philip C. Thorpe

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Television, Tort Law, And Federalism, Robert M. O'Neil Jan 1965

Television, Tort Law, And Federalism, Robert M. O'Neil

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Book Review. Cases And Materials On The Law Of Torts, 2nd Ed. By H. Shulman And F. James, Jr., John T. Bauman Jan 1953

Book Review. Cases And Materials On The Law Of Torts, 2nd Ed. By H. Shulman And F. James, Jr., John T. Bauman

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Book Review. Res Ipsa Loquitur, Presumptions And Burden Of Proof By Mark Shain, Fowler V. Harper Jan 1945

Book Review. Res Ipsa Loquitur, Presumptions And Burden Of Proof By Mark Shain, Fowler V. Harper

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Interrelations Of Criminal Law And Torts: Ii, Jerome Hall Jan 1943

Interrelations Of Criminal Law And Torts: Ii, Jerome Hall

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Interrelations Of Criminal Law And Torts: I, Jerome Hall Jan 1943

Interrelations Of Criminal Law And Torts: I, Jerome Hall

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Book Review. Handbook Of The Law Of Torts By William L. Prosser, Fowler V. Harper Jan 1941

Book Review. Handbook Of The Law Of Torts By William L. Prosser, Fowler V. Harper

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Book Review. The Judicial Process In Tort Cases By Leon Green, Fowler V. Harper Jan 1939

Book Review. The Judicial Process In Tort Cases By Leon Green, Fowler V. Harper

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Malicious Prosecution, False Imprisonment And Defamation, Fowler V. Harper Jan 1937

Malicious Prosecution, False Imprisonment And Defamation, Fowler V. Harper

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The Foreseeability Factor In The Law Of Torts, Fowler V. Harper Jan 1932

The Foreseeability Factor In The Law Of Torts, Fowler V. Harper

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Effect Of The Doctrine Of Res Ipsa Loquitur, Fowler V. Harper, Fred E. Heckel Jan 1928

Effect Of The Doctrine Of Res Ipsa Loquitur, Fowler V. Harper, Fred E. Heckel

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Clark, G. L., The Law Of Torts, Charles M. Hepburn Jan 1924

Clark, G. L., The Law Of Torts, Charles M. Hepburn

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Liability Of An Agent In Tort, Warren A. Seavey Jan 1916

Liability Of An Agent In Tort, Warren A. Seavey

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No abstract provided.


The Nature Of Law, Hugh Evander Willis Jan 1907

The Nature Of Law, Hugh Evander Willis

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Are A Knowledge Of An Offer And Intent To Accept Essential To The Recovery Of A Reward Offered?, Hugh Evander Willis Jan 1906

Are A Knowledge Of An Offer And Intent To Accept Essential To The Recovery Of A Reward Offered?, Hugh Evander Willis

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A Treatise On The Law Of Agency In Contract And Tort, George L. Reinhard Jan 1902

A Treatise On The Law Of Agency In Contract And Tort, George L. Reinhard

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No abstract provided.