Interpreting The Recently Enacted California Underinsurance Provisions Of The Uninsured Motorist Statute,
2013
Pepperdine University
Interpreting The Recently Enacted California Underinsurance Provisions Of The Uninsured Motorist Statute, Linda M. Schmidt
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Overruling Of Royal Globe: A "Royal Bonanza" For Insurance Companies, But What Happens Now?,
2013
Pepperdine University
The Overruling Of Royal Globe: A "Royal Bonanza" For Insurance Companies, But What Happens Now?, Michael J. Gainer
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
It Hertz To Be Number One: The Collision Damage Waiver Is Being Attacked On Multiple Fronts ,
2013
Pepperdine University
It Hertz To Be Number One: The Collision Damage Waiver Is Being Attacked On Multiple Fronts , Michael G. Dawson
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Issues Of Delay & Deviation In Marine Insurance: A Case Study Of Oliver V. The Maryland Insurance Company, 7 Cranach 487 (1813),
2013
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Issues Of Delay & Deviation In Marine Insurance: A Case Study Of Oliver V. The Maryland Insurance Company, 7 Cranach 487 (1813), Kyle Hildreth
Legal History Publications
An examination of the case Oliver v. The Maryland Insurance Company, 7 Cranch 487 (1813). In Oliver, Robert Oliver, the plaintiff, sued the Maryland Insurance Company, the defendant, in an attempt to recover on an insurance policy he had purchased for a shipment of goods aboard the snow Comet. The Comet was seized by a British ship on its return from Spain, and was condemned under the Orders in Council of 1807. The Court affirmed a lower court judgment that Oliver was not entitled to recover, because the Comet had engaged in an unreasonable delay and deviation …
Intellectual Property And Public Health – A White Paper,
2013
University of New Hampshire School of Law
Intellectual Property And Public Health – A White Paper, Ryan G. Vacca, James Ming Chen, Jay Dratler Jr., Thomas Folsom, Timothy S. Hall, Yaniv Heled, Frank A. Pasquale Iii, Elizabeth A. Reilly, Jeffrey Samuels, Katherine J. Strandburg, Kara W. Swanson, Andrew W. Torrance, Katharine A. Van Tassel
Law Faculty Scholarship
On October 26, 2012, the University of Akron School of Law’s Center for Intellectual Property and Technology hosted its Sixth Annual IP Scholars Forum. In attendance were thirteen legal scholars with expertise and an interest in IP and public health who met to discuss problems and potential solutions at the intersection of these fields. This report summarizes this discussion by describing the problems raised, areas of agreement and disagreement between the participants, suggestions and solutions made by participants and the subsequent evaluations of these suggestions and solutions. Led by the moderator, participants at the Forum focused generally on three broad …
Amendments To Federal Removal Statutes: Curtailing Adjudication Of Diversity Cases Or Bad Faith Causes Of Action?,
2013
Barry University School of Law
Amendments To Federal Removal Statutes: Curtailing Adjudication Of Diversity Cases Or Bad Faith Causes Of Action?, Brooke M. Gaffney
Barry Law Review
This student comment explores the problem facing Florida insurers preventing them from exercising their right to litigate bad faith causes of action in federal court. This article demonstrates how the federal removal statutes, and amendments thereto, have potentially precluded insurers from removing some bad faith actions from state to federal court under diversity jurisdiction. This article details the divergence in opinion among Florida’s Southern and Middle District Courts in interpreting the federal removal statutes and concludes with a prediction of how the split may be resolved by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Longevity Insurance: Strengthening Social Security For Older Retirees, 46 J. Marshall L. Rev. 843 (2013),
2013
UIC School of Law
Longevity Insurance: Strengthening Social Security For Older Retirees, 46 J. Marshall L. Rev. 843 (2013), John A. Turner
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Unique Coverage Issues In Flood Losses,
2013
University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Law
Unique Coverage Issues In Flood Losses, Wayne D. Taylor, Arthur J. Park, Sean O'Brien
Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
The Role Of Mediation And Insurance In Bet The Company Litigation,
2013
JAMS
The Role Of Mediation And Insurance In Bet The Company Litigation, Jed Melnick
Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
When most of us graduate from law school, we are not able to read or understand our own car insurance policy, and yet the resolution of most commercial litigation would not happen without the involvement of insurance. The reality is that, in the context of class actions and "bet the company" litigation, insurance is usually the sole source of funds used to resolve the dispute. What follows is the transcript from a panel discussion that took place on February 9, 2012 at Cardozo Law School entitled, "The Role of Mediation and Insurance in Bet the Company Litigation." The idea behind …
Insurance And Climate Change,
2013
University of Connecticut School of Law
Insurance And Climate Change, Peter Kochenburger, Joseph Macdougald
Faculty Articles and Papers
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 …
Insurance And Climate Change, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 719 (2013),
2013
UIC School of Law
Insurance And Climate Change, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 719 (2013), Joseph Macdougald, Peter Kochenburger
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Employer Costs And Conflicts Under The Affordable Care Act,
2013
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Employer Costs And Conflicts Under The Affordable Care Act, Peter Molk
UF Law Faculty Publications
In January 2015, qualified employers must provide health care coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 or face a fine. As employers actively attempt to minimize the costs that they will incur, the possibility emerges that employers will retaliate against or harass employees who seek coverage. This Essay discusses the protections for employees under the law and the possible deficiencies in the law. It shows that employers and employees often have contrasting incentives – employers to avoid coverage, and employees to take coverage – and these incentives may result in employer harassment and retaliation of employees. …
Developing A Durable Right To Health Care,
2013
Georgia State University College of Law
Developing A Durable Right To Health Care, Erin C. Fuse Brown
Faculty Publications By Year
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) signature accomplishment was the creation of a statutory right to health care for the uninsured. This is a momentous change in policy, addressing one of the most vexing social issues of our time and affecting millions of people and billions of dollars of the U.S. economy. This ambition and the degree of societal and political debate leading up to the Act’s passage suggests that it is a “superstatute,” a rare breed of statute that can, among other things, create rights and institutions more typically thought to be the province of constitutional undertaking. …
Insurance Law Principles In An International Context: Compensating Losses Caused By Climate Change,
2013
Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law
Insurance Law Principles In An International Context: Compensating Losses Caused By Climate Change, Sara Seck, Craig Brown
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
This article examines the challenges of paying for loss caused by climate change. It discusses how weather-related harms might become uninsurable by private companies in the future as the adverse effects of climate change increase in severity. Additionally, this article recognizes the difficulty in imposing civil liability on wrongdoers for climate-related harms, and explores options for state-sponsored or state-subsidized insurance. Finally, the authors examine possibilities for an international insurance fund, but eventually conclude that such a fund would unlikely be endorsed at the international level and would not benefit Canadians.
How Insurance Substitutes For Regulation,
2013
University of Chicago Law School
How Insurance Substitutes For Regulation, Omri Ben-Shahar, Kyle D. Logue
Articles
Legal regulation of behavior requires information. Acquiring information about the regulated party's conduct, setting benchmarks by which that conduct is measured, and establishing the correct scale of payoffs for violating or following regulation are costly and require expertise and motivation. Thus, economic theories of rulemaking are often based on the relative information advantages that different regulatory bodies have and how that information can be harnessed to enhance incentives and thereby improve welfare. Government regulators, on average, do not have informational advantages. They are not paid for performance and thus may lack adequate incentives. They are not disciplined by market forces …
Improving Retirement Savings Options For Employees,
2013
University of Connecticut School of Law
Improving Retirement Savings Options For Employees, James Kwak
Faculty Articles and Papers
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 …
Review, From Industrial To Legal Standardization, 1871-1914: Transnational Insurance Law And The Great San Francisco Earthquake,
2013
University of Connecticut School of Law
Review, From Industrial To Legal Standardization, 1871-1914: Transnational Insurance Law And The Great San Francisco Earthquake, Sachin Pandya
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
Explaining Variation In Insurance Anti-Discrimination Laws,
2013
University of Texas at Austin
Explaining Variation In Insurance Anti-Discrimination Laws, Ronen Avraham, Kyle D. Logue, Daniel Benjamin Schwarcz
Law & Economics Working Papers
Discrimination in insurance underwriting is regulated at the state level. Surprisingly, there is a great deal of variation across jurisdictions in how and the extent to which risk classification by insurers is limited. Some states expressly permit insurers to consider certain characteristics, while other characteristics are forbidden or limited in various ways. What explains this variation across states? Drawing on a unique, hand-collected data-set consisting of the laws regulating insurer risk classification in all 51 U.S. jurisdictions, this Article argues that much of the variation in state-level regulation of risk classification can in fact be explained by focusing exclusively on …
Essential Health Benefits And The Affordable Care Act: Law And Process,
2013
University of Michigan Law School
Essential Health Benefits And The Affordable Care Act: Law And Process, Nicholas Bagley, Helen Levy
Law & Economics Working Papers
Beginning in 2014, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will require private insurance plans sold in the individual and small-group markets to cover a roster of “essential health benefits.” Precisely which benefits should count as essential, however, was left to the discretion of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The matter was both important and controversial. HHS nonetheless announced its policy on essential health benefits by posting on its website a 13-page bulletin stating that it would allow each state to define essential benefits for itself by choosing a “benchmark” plan modeled on existing plans in the state. On …
Surrogacy And Insurance: The Call For Statutory Reform In Ohio,
2013
Cleveland State University
Surrogacy And Insurance: The Call For Statutory Reform In Ohio, Sasha M. Swoveland
Journal of Law and Health
This Note examines the practice of excluding maternity services for surrogate mothers under insurance plans that cover maternity services. This Note also introduces two different surrogate arrangements and illustrates the different familial situations that may necessitate the use of a surrogate. Part II defines surrogacy and offers a general overview of the surrogacy process. Part III demonstrates that surrogates need insurance for pregnancy related services. It also argues that the exclusion of coverage for surrogates is pregnancy discrimination. Part IV explains why current legal remedies are insufficient to make surrogates whole. Part V analyzes the state of surrogacy examining Ohio …
