Academics, attorneys and insurance industry officials took a look at the myriad ways artificial intelligence could affect the "insurance value chain," as one conference panelist put it, across claims, litigation and underwriting, including the coverage of AI-related occurrences themselves.
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Insurance Experts Examine AI's Challenges For Underwriting

By Ganesh Setty

Academics, attorneys and insurance industry officials took a look at the myriad ways artificial intelligence could affect the "insurance value chain," as one conference panelist put it, across claims, litigation and underwriting, including the coverage of AI-related occurrences themselves.

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Judge Out Of Line In Undoing $1M LSD Verdict, 5th Circ. Told

By Catherine Marfin

A man who became a quadriplegic after ingesting LSD told the Fifth Circuit that a Houston judge didn't have the authority to undo a jury's decision putting an insurance company on the hook for his $1 million injury settlement.

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Insurer Not Liable For $8.5M Florida Condo Defect Damages

By Elizabeth Daley

A Florida federal judge freed an insurer from paying any of the $8.5 million in damages connected to shoddy work at a Florida condo, finding there wasn't an allocation accounting for which claims were covered and which claims were not in an agreement between the condo and a contractor. 

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Texas Bill Aimed At Curbing Juries' Injury Verdicts Fails

By Spencer Brewer

A controversial bill that would have limited jury awards for injured Texans died Sunday after the two branches of the Texas Legislature couldn't hash out differences in the bill's language.

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LITIGATION

Seattle Owner Questions Insurer's $8.5M Water Damage Denial

By Elizabeth Daley

A Seattle building owner urged a Washington federal court to grant it a partial early win in a coverage dispute over $8.5 million in water damage, telling the court that under state law, none of the four exclusions its insurer cited when denying coverage are applicable to the water intrusion loss.

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Syracuse Diocese Pauses Plan Hearing To Seek Insurer Deal

By Rick Archer

A New York bankruptcy judge Monday agreed to postpone for a month a hearing on the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse's Chapter 11 plan after the diocese said it wanted more time to work out one last insurance settlement.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Measuring The Impact Of Attorney Gender On Trial Outcomes

Preliminary findings from our recent study on how attorney gender might affect case outcomes support the conclusion that there is little in the way of a clear, universal bias against attorneys of a given gender, say Jill Leibold, Olivia Goodman and Alexa Hiley at IMS Legal Strategies.

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The Ins And Outs Of Consensual Judicial References

As parties consider the possibility of judicial reference to resolve complex disputes, it is critical to understand how the process works, why it's gaining traction, and why carefully crafted agreements make all the difference, say attorneys at Pillsbury.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Crowell & Moring Opens In Boston With Faber Daeufer Tie-Up

By Tracey Read

Crowell & Moring LLP and Faber Daeufer & Itrato PC announced Tuesday they have combined, allowing Crowell & Moring to open an office in Boston that builds on Faber Daeufer's strong presence in the city's life sciences community.

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Retired Judges Call Wis. Judge's Prosecution 'Dangerous'

By Ryan Boysen

The Trump administration's prosecution of a Wisconsin state judge who refused to help federal agents arrest an immigrant is an "extraordinary and direct assault on the independence of the entire judicial system," according to a bipartisan group of 138 former state and federal judges.

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Jenner & Block Ruling 'Meant What It Said,' Judge Tells Feds

By Lauren Berg

The order striking down the Trump administration's executive order targeting Jenner & Block LLP "meant what it said," a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled Monday, saying the government must rescind enforcement of all parts of the president's directive.

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Susman Godfrey Founder, 'Preeminent' Litigator, Dies

By Jack Karp

H. Lee Godfrey, one of the founders of litigation boutique Susman Godfrey LLP, died on Monday, leaving behind a legacy as a thoughtful leader who performed exceptional work as a trial attorney, firm leaders said.

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Girardi's Dropped Pants Don't Sway Judge From Sentencing

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge ruled Monday she will sentence Tom Girardi this week for his wire fraud conviction, finding him mentally competent enough to potentially serve prison time following a bizarre hearing where the disbarred attorney made an appearance on the witness stand that culminated in his pants falling down.

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Jackson Walker, US Trustee Agree To Mediator In Fees Case

By Hilary Russ

Jackson Walker LLP and the federal government's bankruptcy watchdog have agreed to mediation in their fee dispute stemming from an ethics scandal in Texas, with the two sides agreeing that retired judge Joan N. Feeney should mediate.

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Report Finds Del. Court Jumbo Fees Rival Federal System

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's corporation law courts have overshadowed the entire federal court system for some class attorney fees based on multiples of usual rate benchmarks, according to two Stanford Law School researchers whose findings have already caught the attention of a top state lawmaker.

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Schumer Pledges To Fight GOP's Limits On Court Power

By Courtney Bublé

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has vowed to challenge a provision in House Republicans' budget reconciliation package that would curtail courts' ability to issue contempt citations.

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Jackson, Sotomayor Bristle As High Court Skips Bias Suit

By Anne Cullen

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday to pass on a Black dancer's race discrimination case sparked objections from Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, who said the Fifth Circuit's conclusion that the performer filed suit too late was "patently erroneous."

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CFTC Announces 2nd Enforcement Head In 3 Months

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday named a new head of enforcement for the second time in three months, appointing its longtime deputy director to head the division.

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High Court Skips AR-15 Ban Constitutionality For Now

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to weigh in on the debate over whether AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles are protected under the Second Amendment or potentially subject to state bans because of their military-like capabilities.

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Fla. Sanitizer Co. Faces Penalties Over Fake AI Legal Citations

By David Minsky

Two Florida federal judges have ordered a disinfectant sprayer business to explain why artificial intelligence-generated fake citations and quotes appeared in filings in lawsuits over corporate wrongdoing from a Canadian breach of contract case, saying it could face serious penalties for alleged intentional misrepresentations.

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Trump Renews Call For Justices To Lift Gov't Overhaul Pause

By Katie Buehler

President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to lift a California federal judge's order barring the implementation of layoffs and reorganization plans at various federal departments and agencies, arguing the order imposes nonexistent congressional limits on his presidential authority.

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Third Round Of Fixes Sought In Botched Calif. Bar Exam

By Emily Sawicki

The California state bar's committee of bar examiners has approved two additional remedies in an effort to help applicants who failed the troubled February exam, including asking the state Supreme Court to approve a further scoring adjustment that would bring the passing rate up to about 63%.

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Despite 11-1 Split Warning, 7th Circ. Limits Use Of Mandamus

By Jeff Overley

The Seventh Circuit shrugged off assertions that it has inexplicably adopted one-of-a-kind restrictions on change-of-venue challenges, refusing Monday to rethink its recent rejection of mandamus as a mechanism to fight forum selection decisions.

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The Top In-House Hires Of May

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires over the past month included high-profile appointments at Adobe, Takeda Pharmaceutical and Duke Energy. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from May.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Labaton Keller's Ned Weinberger

By Katryna Perera

Ned Weinberger, a partner at Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP, said he never expected that his clients' suit challenging a $23.9 billion Dell Technologies Inc. stock swap would reach a whopping $1 billion settlement, let alone result in the largest prejudgment recovery ever achieved in a fiduciary duty action in the Delaware Chancery Court.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Altshuler Berzon

Anderson Kill

Arnold & Porter

Bast Amron

Clement & Murphy

Cooley LLP

Cooper & Kirk

Cozen O'Connor

Crowell & Moring

Faber Daeufer

Frankfurt Kurnit

Gardner Bist

Gibbs & Bruns

Gibson Dunn

Gimbel Reilly

Girardi & Keese

Hughes Socol

Hunton Andrews

Jackson Walker LLP

Jenner & Block

Kilpatrick Townsend

Labaton Keller

Martin & Bonnett

McNaul Ebel

Miller Nash LLP

Morris James

Orrick Herrington

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Pillsbury Winthrop

Regan Atwood

Rywant Alvarez

Sidley Austin

Spencer Fane

Strang Bradley

Susman Godfrey

Wallace & Allen

WilmerHale

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

Adobe Inc.

American Bar Association

American Federation of Government Employees

American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees

Amerisure Mutual Insurance Co.

Barclays PLC

Books-A-Million Inc.

Boston College

Bumble Inc.

Cisco Systems Inc.

Coalition Inc.

Dell Technologies Inc.

Democracy Forward Foundation

Duke Energy Corp.

Eli Lilly & Co.

Entertainment Software Association

Fastly Inc.

General Motors Co.

HSN Inc.

Honeywell International Inc.

International Business Machines Corp.

Johns Hopkins University

LinkedIn Corp.

Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc.

Motion Picture Association Inc.

National Rifle Association of America

New York University

Nokia Corp.

Northrop Grumman Corp.

Nuveen LLC

Occidental Fire & Casualty Co. of North Carolina

Pattern Energy Group LP

Paypal Holdings Inc.

Progress Energy, Inc.

Protect Democracy Project Inc.

Purdue Pharma LP

QVC Inc.

Roku Inc.

Scholastic Corporation

Second Amendment Foundation

Service Employees International Union

Shell PLC

Skanska AB

Stanford University

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

Tenneco Inc.

Texans for Lawsuit Reform

TikTok Inc.

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

University of Southern California

University of Virginia

Walmart Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Zulily Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Federal Labor Relations Authority

Louisiana Supreme Court

Maryland Attorney General's Office

National Labor Relations Board

National Science Foundation

Peace Corps

Rhode Island Attorney General's Office

Small Business Administration

Social Security Administration

Texas Legislature

Texas State Senate

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget

United Nations

United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin