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Full-Text Articles in Law
"Grossly Negligent Utilities," "Unimaginable Property Damage" And The Scope Of Liability Insurers' Duty To Indemnify Subrogated Property Insurers - Probative And Empirical Inferences From Courts' Divided Subrogation And Indemnification Decision, Willy E. Rice
Faculty Articles
Each year, extreme weather, natural disasters and allegedly "grossly negligent" investor-owned utilities concurrently destroy property, persons and lives. In the wake, billions of dollars are lost. Given utilities' general immunity under the judicially created filed-rate or filed-tariff doctrine, residential and commercial owners are precluded from filing ordinary negligence actions against utilities. Thus, many injured consumers try to settle their property-loss claims with their insurers. Some property insurers satisfy the "make-whole" doctrine and cover all losses. Most insurers, however, refuse to settle any claim. Or, they partially compensate the insureds. Yet, an overwhelming majority of property insurers are increasingly filing subrogation …
Vulnerability As A Launching State: Why The United States Should Adopt Explicit Indemnification Procedures In Response To The Growth Of The Commercial Space Industry, Mollie Carney
St. John's Law Review
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This Note argues that the current United States launch license requirements should be amended to include explicit indemnification procedures, should the United States be held liable for damages as a Launching State under the Liability Convention. Part I of this Note examines the evolution of the space industry from a field marked by Cold War tensions to one that is dominated by private industry, and the risks that are associated with the rapid growth of the commercial space industry. Part II will explain the current legal regime by (1) setting a framework of liability generally, (2) examining the Liability …
Immunization And Indemnification: Rethinking The Us Approach To Liability Protections For Vaccine Manufacturers During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Samantha Topper Berns
Immunization And Indemnification: Rethinking The Us Approach To Liability Protections For Vaccine Manufacturers During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Samantha Topper Berns
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review
This note analyzes the legal mechanisms in the United States that provide compensation for vaccine injuries sustained as a result of inoculation against pandemic viruses when a public health emergency has been declared. While the United States has an every-day compensation scheme that deters litigation by providing just compensation yet upholds the right of injured parties to seek damages in court, it has a special compensation scheme applicable to vaccines developed to address public health emergencies that bars litigation by effectively providing vaccine manufactures with complete indemnification and severely restricts the ability of injured parties to receive compensation. Meanwhile, in …
Qualified Immunity, Sovereign Immunity, And Systemic Reform, Katherine Mims Crocker
Qualified Immunity, Sovereign Immunity, And Systemic Reform, Katherine Mims Crocker
Faculty Publications
Qualified immunity has become a central target of the movement for police reform and racial justice since George Floyd’s murder. And rightly so. Qualified immunity, which shields government officials from damages for constitutional violations even in many egregious cases, should have no place in federal law. But in critical respects, qualified immunity has become too much a focus of the conversation about constitutional-enforcement reform. The recent reappraisal offers unique opportunities to explore deeper problems and seek deeper solutions.
This Article argues that the public and policymakers should reconsider other aspects of the constitutional-tort system—especially sovereign immunity and related protections for …
Indemnifying Precaution: Economic Insights For Regulation Of A Highly Infectious Disease, Christopher Robertson, K Aleks Schaefer, Daniel Scheitrum, Sergio Puig, Keith Joiner
Indemnifying Precaution: Economic Insights For Regulation Of A Highly Infectious Disease, Christopher Robertson, K Aleks Schaefer, Daniel Scheitrum, Sergio Puig, Keith Joiner
Faculty Scholarship
Economic insights are powerful for understanding the challenge of managing a highly infectious disease, such as COVID-19, through behavioral precautions including social distancing. One problem is a form of moral hazard, which arises when some individuals face less personal risk of harm or bear greater personal costs of taking precautions. Without legal intervention, some individuals will see socially risky behaviors as personally less costly than socially beneficial behaviors, a balance that makes those beneficial behaviors unsustainable. For insights, we review health insurance moral hazard, agricultural infectious disease policy, and deterrence theory, but find that classic enforcement strategies of punishing noncompliant …
Comprehensive General Liability Policies Under Maine's Ground Water Protection Act: The Law Court's Extraordinary Definition Of Ordinary Intelligence, Andrew M. Strongin
Comprehensive General Liability Policies Under Maine's Ground Water Protection Act: The Law Court's Extraordinary Definition Of Ordinary Intelligence, Andrew M. Strongin
Maine Law Review
In Patrons Oxford Mutual Insurance Co. v. Marios, the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, sitting as the Law Court, joined the current debate in the state and federal judiciaries as to whether comprehensive general liability (CGL) insurance policies obligate the insurer to indemnify the insured for cleanup costs incurred pursuant to governmentally mandated cleanup of hazardous substances. In that decision, the court held that cleanup costs incurred pursuant to court order authorized by the Maine Underground Oil Storage Facilities and Ground Water Protection Act are not covered by such policies. The explicit basis of the court's decision was that the …
Comprehensive General Liability Policies Under Maine's Ground Water Protection Act: The Law Court's Extraordinary Definition Of Ordinary Intelligence, Andrew M. Strongin
Comprehensive General Liability Policies Under Maine's Ground Water Protection Act: The Law Court's Extraordinary Definition Of Ordinary Intelligence, Andrew M. Strongin
Maine Law Review
In Patrons Oxford Mutual Insurance Co. v. Marios, the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, sitting as the Law Court, joined the current debate in the state and federal judiciaries as to whether comprehensive general liability (CGL) insurance policies obligate the insurer to indemnify the insured for cleanup costs incurred pursuant to governmentally mandated cleanup of hazardous substances. In that decision, the court held that cleanup costs incurred pursuant to court order authorized by the Maine Underground Oil Storage Facilities and Ground Water Protection Act are not covered by such policies. The explicit basis of the court's decision was that the …
Allocating Patent Litigation Risk Across The Supply Chain, Michael J. Meurer
Allocating Patent Litigation Risk Across The Supply Chain, Michael J. Meurer
Faculty Scholarship
The paradigmatic defendant in a patent lawsuit is a vertically integrated manufacturer. But much economic activity is conducted collaboratively by a supply chain of vertically disintegrated firms, and sometimes multiple firms are implicated in infringing activities, by making, selling, or using patented technology, or by contributing to or inducing another firm’s infringement. Often patent owners have the option of suing some or all of the members of a supply chain who contribute to the design, creation and marketing of a new technology.
Businesses increasingly contemplate the risk of patent infringement when they negotiate contractual relations to form a supply chain. …
Computer Systems Fraud - Computer Systems Fraud In The Era Of Big Data And Ehrs, John Sepulveda
Computer Systems Fraud - Computer Systems Fraud In The Era Of Big Data And Ehrs, John Sepulveda
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Viken Securities Limited, Order Granting Plaintiffs' Motion For Summary Judgment On All Defendants' Counterclaims, Melvin K. Westmoreland
Viken Securities Limited, Order Granting Plaintiffs' Motion For Summary Judgment On All Defendants' Counterclaims, Melvin K. Westmoreland
Georgia Business Court Opinions
No abstract provided.
Indemnification As An Alternative To Nullification, Robert A. Mikos
Indemnification As An Alternative To Nullification, Robert A. Mikos
Montana Law Review
No abstract provided.
Teaching Interpretation And Structure Of The Revised Uniform Partnership Act: Moren Ex Rel. Moren V. Jax Restaurant And The Duty Of Indemnification, George M. Cohen
Teaching Interpretation And Structure Of The Revised Uniform Partnership Act: Moren Ex Rel. Moren V. Jax Restaurant And The Duty Of Indemnification, George M. Cohen
Saint Louis University Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Texas Anti-Indemnity Act., Taylor R. Beaver
The Texas Anti-Indemnity Act., Taylor R. Beaver
St. Mary's Law Journal
Owners, general contractors, and subcontractors enter into agreements to ameliorate risk amongst those exercising control. Some of these include hold-harmless agreements, indemnity agreements, releases, and agreements conferring additional insured status to others. Typically, parties enjoy freedom to contract as they wish. Texas has long recognized, as a matter of public policy, a party’s right to draft contracts however it sees fit. Historically, risk-shifting agreements were enforceable if they passed the fair notice requirements, meaning the express negligence rule and the conspicuousness test. The trend in recent years, however, has been to limit exculpatory clauses. In 2011, the Texas Legislature effectively …
Fee-Shifting Bylaw And Charter Provisions: Can They Apply In Federal Court? – The Case For Preemption, John C. Coffee Jr.
Fee-Shifting Bylaw And Charter Provisions: Can They Apply In Federal Court? – The Case For Preemption, John C. Coffee Jr.
Faculty Scholarship
In the first months after a decision of the Delaware Supreme Court upholding a fee-shifting bylaw under which the unsuccessful plaintiff shareholder was required to reimburse all defendants for their legal and other expenses in the litigation, some 24 public companies adopted a similar provision – either by means of a board-adopted bylaw or by placing such a provision in their certificate of incorporation (in the case of companies undergoing an IPO). In effect, private ordering is introducing a one-sided version of the “loser pays” rules. Indeed, as drafted, these provisions typically require a plaintiff who is not completely successful …
Ucc Update: 2013 Case Law Updates And Examples Of How A Bank May Be Able To Reduce Exposure On Potential Future Losses, William P. Huttenbach
Ucc Update: 2013 Case Law Updates And Examples Of How A Bank May Be Able To Reduce Exposure On Potential Future Losses, William P. Huttenbach
William P. Huttenbach
No abstract provided.
Corporate Indemnification And Advancement Provisions, Good Faith, And The Responsibility Of Corporate Attorneys To Protect The Corporation From Misconduct, Markena Diane Peavy
Corporate Indemnification And Advancement Provisions, Good Faith, And The Responsibility Of Corporate Attorneys To Protect The Corporation From Misconduct, Markena Diane Peavy
Markena D. Peavy
The last decade of corporate scandals has exposed that corporations are vulnerable to corruption and exploitation, which has significant and lasting effects on the national and global economy. This article examines the corporate attorney’s responsibility to serve as “gatekeeper” for the corporation, primarily in circumstances where the interests of corporate officials and the interests of the corporation are in direct conflict, and Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which governs the indemnification and advancement rights of corporate officers and the confines of the corporation’s power to confer such rights. Delaware courts have long established that indemnification is to …
Slides: The Role Of Groundwater Sampling/Monitoring: Cogcc Proposed Rule 609, Gene Florentino
Slides: The Role Of Groundwater Sampling/Monitoring: Cogcc Proposed Rule 609, Gene Florentino
Monitoring and Protecting Groundwater During Oil and Gas Development (November 26)
Presenter: Gene Florentino, PG, Walsh Environmental Scientists and Engineers
14 slides
Fire Losses And Conflicting Judicial Rulings Over Whether Property Insurers Must Indemnify Insureds And Pay Third-Party Claims - Some Implications For Wildfire Litigation In Texas's Courts, Willy E. Rice
Faculty Articles
Wildfires in Texas have generated two interrelated questions: (1) whether insurers have a duty to indemnify residential and commercial property owners if a wild forest, brush, grass, or prairie fire destroys homeowners' property in Texas, and (2) whether insurers have a duty to pay or settle third-party claims in Texas if a property owner starts a fire on her property, which evolves into a wildfire and destroys a third party's residential or commercial property.
Liability For Damage Caused By Space Objects Under International And National Law, Paul S. Dempsey
Liability For Damage Caused By Space Objects Under International And National Law, Paul S. Dempsey
Paul S Dempsey
ABSTRACT Because of the imposition of State liability for damage inflicted by space objects under the multilateral Space Law Conventions, many States have promulgated national legislation providing licensing, insurance and indemnification by commercial providers. In order to promote commercial operations in space, some States also have capped liability. This article addresses two principal issues: (1) the liability exposure of States for death, injury, or property damage by providers of commercial spaceflight; and (2) how States protect themselves in their domestic legislation through indemnification and insurance requirements in the licensing and regulation of launches, launch sites, launch vehicles, space vehicles and …
Should Juries Be Informed That Municipality Will Indemnify Officer’S 1983 Liability For Constitutional Wrongdoing?, Martin A. Schwartz
Should Juries Be Informed That Municipality Will Indemnify Officer’S 1983 Liability For Constitutional Wrongdoing?, Martin A. Schwartz
Martin A. Schwartz
No abstract provided.
Intraportfolio Litigation Essay, Amanda M. Rose, Richard Squire
Intraportfolio Litigation Essay, Amanda M. Rose, Richard Squire
Faculty Scholarship
The modern trend is for investors to diversify. Shareholders who own one S&P 500 firm tend to own many of the others as well. This trend casts doubt on the traditional compensation and deterrence rationales for legal rules that hold corporations liable for the acts of their agents. Today, when A Corp sues B Corp (for breach of contract, theft of trade secrets, or any other legal wrong), many of the same shareholders own both the plaintiff and the defendant. For these shareholders, damages just shift money from one pocket to another, minus of course lawyer fees. We offer here …
In Re Healthsouth Corp. Securities Litigation, Adam Paul Gordon
In Re Healthsouth Corp. Securities Litigation, Adam Paul Gordon
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Duty To Defend Under Non-Insurance Indemnity Agreements: Crawford V. Weather Shield Manufacturing, Inc. And Its Troubling Consequences For Design Professionals, Gilson S. Riecken
The Duty To Defend Under Non-Insurance Indemnity Agreements: Crawford V. Weather Shield Manufacturing, Inc. And Its Troubling Consequences For Design Professionals, Gilson S. Riecken
Santa Clara Law Review
No abstract provided.
Corporate And Business Law, Laurence V. Parker
Corporate And Business Law, Laurence V. Parker
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
“Fees On Fees” In New York: Attention Coporate Agents, George Klidonas
“Fees On Fees” In New York: Attention Coporate Agents, George Klidonas
George Klidonas
It is well settled law in New York that corporate officers and directors shall be indemnified for suits brought against them as agents of the corporation. The only limitation is that they are successful on the merits of the case and the corporate agent did not engage in conduct pursuant to bad faith. But what happens when that agent asks the corporation to indemnify them and the corporation refuses? According to a recent Court of Appeals case, if that agent files a subsequent indemnification suit, the agent is not entitled to legal fees for costs arising out of the subsequent …
Director Compliance With Elusive Fiduciary Duties In A Climate Of Corporate Governance Reform, Nadelle Grossman
Director Compliance With Elusive Fiduciary Duties In A Climate Of Corporate Governance Reform, Nadelle Grossman
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
No abstract provided.
Broadening Arranger Liability Under Alaska State Law: The Ninth Circuit's Interpretation Of Berg V. Popham, Sarah E. Stevenson
Broadening Arranger Liability Under Alaska State Law: The Ninth Circuit's Interpretation Of Berg V. Popham, Sarah E. Stevenson
Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )
No abstract provided.
Construction Law, K. Brett Marston, J. Barrett Lucy
Construction Law, K. Brett Marston, J. Barrett Lucy
University of Richmond Law Review
Since the last survey of this topic published in the fall of 2000, construction law in Virginia has continued to evolve in an array of areas involving issues such as claims on surety bonds, claims against public entities, construction-related products like Exterior Insulation Finishing Systems ("EIFS"), and mechanic's liens. These changes have implicated and better defined legal principles including the "no damage for delay" clause on public contracts, requirements for privity in breach of warranty claims, and implied indemnification. The significant issues in construction law have arisen both in a number of significant judicial decisions, mostly from the Supreme Court …
Aviall V. Cooper Industries: The Emerging Controversy Behind Cercla's Contribution Provision, Saleel V. Sabnis
Aviall V. Cooper Industries: The Emerging Controversy Behind Cercla's Contribution Provision, Saleel V. Sabnis
Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )
No abstract provided.
Arbitrating Human Rights, Roger P. Alford
Arbitrating Human Rights, Roger P. Alford
Journal Articles
The article addresses the vexing problem of holding corporations liable for assisting in the sovereign abuse of human rights. Currently domestic human rights litigation against corporations appears to be a proxy fight in which the accomplice is pursued while the principal evades punishment. Typically the principal malfeasor - the sovereign - is immune from suit because of foreign sovereign immunity. But corporations can be found liable for aiding and abetting those violations. This article suggests a solution to this problem, drawing on principles from contract law and arbitration. If a corporation is found liable for aiding and abetting sovereign abuse, …