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Review, From Industrial To Legal Standardization, 1871-1914: Transnational Insurance Law And The Great San Francisco Earthquake, Sachin Pandya
Review, From Industrial To Legal Standardization, 1871-1914: Transnational Insurance Law And The Great San Francisco Earthquake, Sachin Pandya
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Improving Retirement Savings Options For Employees, James Kwak
Improving Retirement Savings Options For Employees, James Kwak
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Americans do not save enough for retirement. One reason is that our retirement savings accounts — whether employer-sponsored defined-contribution plans such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts — are heavily invested in actively managed mutual funds that siphon off tens of billions of dollars in fees every year yet deliver returns that trail the overall market. Under existing law, as interpreted by the courts, mutual funds may charge high fees to investors, and companies may offer expensive, active funds to their employees. This paper argues that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act should be reinterpreted, in light of basic …
Insurance And Climate Change, Peter Kochenburger, Joseph Macdougald
Insurance And Climate Change, Peter Kochenburger, Joseph Macdougald
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Climate change started as a scientific theory, became the subject of environmental policy and international negotiation, and today manifests itself within the courts in a series of boundary testing cases that challenge the settled concepts of risk and redress available under both environmental and insurance law. As our climate becomes increasingly unstable and the causal link between damage from sea-level rise and severe weather events becomes ever more tangible and traceable, courts at all levels wrestle with varying avenues of legal authority, including: the limitations of legal redress through the political question doctrine the appropriateness of traditional federal and state …