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Claims-Made And Reported Policies - Recent Late Notice Prejudice Requirements - Are The Insurance Products Being Underpriced?

By Joseph Monteleone, Esq. of Tressler LLP

Three recent decisions since the beginning of this year illustrate how different courts presented with divergent facts might interpret substantially similar claims-made and reported requirements in policies.

Discovering, Authenticating & Utilizing Social Media in Litigation: Strategy Considerations

By Donald L. Carmelite, Esq. and Allison M. Domday, Esq. of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, P.C

Key Points:

• Old-fashioned, time consuming detective work is necessary to collect social media evidence.
• Utilizing social media evidence strategically, whether gathered informally or by motion, can assist you in quickly resolving your case.
• When properly admitted into evidence, social media can injure a litigant's credibility at trial and greatly affect the outcome of a case in your client's favor.

To Err Is Human: Exclusions from "Insurance Vows"

By Louie Castoria, Esq. of Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP

If wedding vows were worded like E&O insurance policies, they might sound like this:

"I, Randolph, take you, Gertrude, to be my lawfully wedded wife, to love and honor, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, as long as we both shall live. 

Keeping Health and Workers Compensation For Your Business In Perspective

By Aaron Peterson, Editor Agents Advantage

If you haven't been paying attention as the owner of a business, now is the time. If you have been trying to find some answers there is still time.

The open enrollment period to purchase health insurance coverage for 2014 through the Health Insurance Marketplace runs from Oct. 1, 2013, through March 31, 2014. If you are seeking information about how to obtain health care coverage or financial assistance to purchase health care coverage for you and your family, visit the Health and Human Services website, HealthCare.gov. For anyone who has not completed enrollment but did begin the process there is additional time allowed up until April 15th 2014.

By Mark Hunter "The Sales Hunter"

There is no need to dread negotiating. If you do dread it, then chances are you're not going to succeed.

Poisoning a Coworker is Outside the Scope of Employment, California Court Rules

By Mitchell Boomer, Esq. of Jackson Lewis P.C.

A California Court of Appeal has ruled that a medical staffing company was not vicariously liable for its medical assistant who poisoned a coworker while on assignment at a hospital. Montague et al. v. AMN Healthcare, Inc., No. D063385 (Cal. Ct. App. Feb. 21, 2014). The Court found the medical assistant's "highly unusual and startling" actions occurred outside the scope of her employment and affirmed summary judgment in favor of the staffing company.