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Settlement
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WCMediator Blog
A Real Life Lesson Why It’s Almost Always Better To Settle
By Teddy Snyder
LaQuan Tremell Taylor’s injuries were horrific. The 27-year-old veteran, was robbed, carjacked, and shot in the parking lot of a Kroger grocery store in Atlanta, Georgia. After three weeks in a…
Health Industry Washington Watch
New IRS rulemaking impacts FCA settlement payment deductibility
By Rick Robinson, James F. Hennessy
Effective January 14, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") implemented a final rule (the "Final Rule") concerning the tax deductibility of settlement payments made to the government. This rulemaking followed…
The Fiduciary Litigator
Court Held That An Heir Of An Estate Who Released All Claims Against The Estate Via A Settlement Agreement No Longer Had Standing To Bring Suit
In In the Estate of Maberry, the alleged common-law wife of an intestate decedent did not have standing to seek to remove the decedent’s daughter as independent administrator because she…
Insurance Law Hawaii
Ninth Circuit Finds Excess Carrier Can Challenge Primary Insurer’s Settlement Payment and Erosion of Limits
The court found that the excess carrier had grounds to challenge the primary carrier's allocation of a settlement payment. Scottsdale Ins. Co. v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyds, London, 2020…
Class Action & Mass Torts
5 Top Workplace Class Action Trends In 2021: Trend #3 Class Action Settlement Trends Video
Seyfarth Synopsis: In our continuing video blog series on the finding of our 2021 Workplace Class Action Litigation Report, somewhat unexpectedly, the aggregate monetary value of workplace class action settlements…
Class Action & Mass Torts
5 Key Trends In Workplace Class Action Litigation: Trend #3 Class Action Settlement Trends
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. Seyfarth Synopsis: In our continuing series of discussion points from the 2021 Workplace Class Action Litigation Report, somewhat counter-intuitively, the aggregate monetary value of workplace…
Justice Pays
How Do You Go To Trial?
One of the worst experiences that can happen to a person is coming to harm due to another person’s carelessness. It’s one thing to get into a random, unexpected accident,…
Brick Gentry Trial Law Team
Car Accident Injury Settlement Basics Every Crash Victim Should Know
By Rush Nigut
What are the car accident injury settlement basics every crash victims should know? The word settlement refers to an agreement between an injured crash victim and a person, entity, or…
Zalma on Insurance
A Video Explaining the Consideration for Early Settlement of a Construction Defect Suit
By Barry Zalma
Considerations for Early Settlement See the full video at https://youtu.be/uj04AxGJ41U It is an axiom followed by almost every attorney that the sooner a suit is settled the less it will…
Disputing
Arbitration, Mediation and Mixed Modes: Seeking Workable Solutions and Common Ground on Med-Arb, Arb-Med and Settlement-Oriented Activities by Arbitrators
By Beth Graham
Professor Thomas J. Stipanowich, William H. Webster Chair in Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University’s Caruso School of Law and Associate Dean of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, has published…