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Liability
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inversecondemnation.com
Is Anyone On The Hook If a Volcano Gawker Ends Up In Trouble?
This photo and accompanying story ("Volcano officials concerned about risky activity at Kilauea ocean entry") reminded us of an article we did a few years ago about issues of liability…
TortsProf Blog
Condo/Co-Op Liability Following Hurricane Sandy
The New York Law Journal has an interesting story about negligence suits filed against Condo and Co-Op Associations following Hurricane Sandy.Thanks to Lisa Smith-Butler for the alert.- SBS
Virgin Islands Law Blog
Liability Dangers of Sole Proprietorships & General Partnerships
By Tom Bolt
As a small business owner, you have several different ways to form your business in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The type of business entity that you select will hinge on numerous…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Baer on Baker & Griffith’s Ensuring Corporate Misconduct
Some Thoughts on the Porous Boundary between Ordinary and Extraordinary Corporate Fraud (Book Review of ENSURING CORPORATE MISCONDUCT by Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith, 2010), by Miriam H. Baer, Brooklyn…
TortsProf Blog
Idaho Declines to Adopt Baseball Rule
In an interlocutory appeal, the Idaho Supreme Court declined to adopt the "baseball rule," limiting a stadium operator's liability for foul balls. The case, Rountree v. Boise Ball (pdf), involved…
TortsProf Blog
Baker & Swedloff on Regulation by Liability Insurance
Tom Baker (Penn) and Rick Swedloff (Rutgers-Camden) have posted to SSRN Regulation by Liability Insurance: From Auto to Lawyers Professional Liability. The abstract provides:Liability insurers use a variety of tools…
florida ROC
A Consumer Alert for ROCs: SB 286 and HB 575
By Scott Gordon
Earlier today, I received an email from the Community Association Institute's Florida Legislative Alliance ("FLA") alerting me to bills to be introduced in the upcoming legislative session in Tallahassee. According to…
The Appellate Strategist
Limits on Life after Death: Only Accrued Claims Are Viable Against Corporations Post-Dissolution
By Kirk Jenkins
According to the Illinois Business Corporation Act, the dissolution of a corporation “shall not take away nor impair any civil remedy available” to or against the corporation, its directors or…
PropertyProf Blog
Bar-Gill & Persico on the Effect of Weak Property Rights on Exchange Efficiency
By propertyprof
Oren Bar-Gill (NYU) & Nicola Persico (Northwestern) have posted Exchange Efficiency with Weak Property Rights on SSRN. Here's the abstract:We show that the first welfare theorem obtains independently of the…
Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
Sixth Circuit Reaffirms Strict Reading of Liability Insurance Contracts
In Goodyear v. Nat’l Union Fire Ins., Goodyear sought recovery from two of its insurers for fees and costs incurred defending against an SEC investigation and a class action initiated…