A bit about contruction and mortgages…
Professor Herbert Kritzer’s article on “The Commodification of Insurance Defense Practice” in construction defect and other cases is a must read for attorneys representing both claimants and insured….
For lawyers, maybe so, says Professor Peter Henning in an article for the Notre Dame Journal of Law and Ethics….
A California appellate court decision banning “binding mediation” is discussed over at May It Please the Court….
Updated: A Mississippi federal district court has held State Farm’s insurance policy form ambiguous and that State Farm must pay for wind and water damage even if tidal surge caused later caused further destruction, reports the SunHerald….
The Court will decide whether its earlier decision in State Farm v Campbell (i) mandates a reasonable ratio between compensatory and punitive damages when the defendants conduct was outrageous and (ii) prohibits the jury from considering the harm done to…
“We shook hands on it” connotes to folks in the construction business a legally binding deals been made. Would writing the contract with one’s own blood connote more?…