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Insurance Coverage & Recovery
Use Of Credit Ratings In Capital Requirements For Insurers – The Collins “Fix”
The amount of capital that insurers are required to hold on their balance sheets has become a regulatory and legislative flashpoint. A convergence of factors over the last few years – including federal rulemaking under The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, oversight...
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From Books To Bytes: Second Circuit Endorses Library Digitization Projects
It’s been a very good stretch for digital libraries. Late last year, Second Circuit Judge Denny Chin, sitting as a Southern District of New York judge, ruled that digital book scanning in the Google Books Project constituted a fair use of the authors’ works and therefore did not...
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Below The Radar Pro Bono Activities At Kramer Levin
Kramer Levin’s Jeffrey S. Trachtman Receives NYC Bar Association Award For Service To LGBT Community Jeffrey S. Trachtman was presented with the Arthur S. Leonard Award for distinguished service on behalf of the LGBT Community at the City Bar Association’s annual reception...
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A Continually Changing Landscape For Insurers
Editor: Please describe your practice area. Rabinowitz: I focus exclusively on transactional and regulatory matters for insurance and other financial services entities. My practice spans numerous types of corporate transactional activity involving the insurance sector and related state and...
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The Nuts And Bolts Of Internal Investigations
Editor: Please tell our readers about your background as first a government prosecutor as well as your practice at Kramer Levin. Schoeman: I was a prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York. Later, I came to Kramer Levin and was partner in our...
Read MoreSuperfund Legislation Matures While GHG Policy Lags Behind
Editor: Please tell our readers about your backgrounds in environmental law. Warren: I began working on environmental issues as head of the Office of Legislation for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. I then came back to New York as Regional Administrator for Region 2 EPA and was in...
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Consumer Fraud Class Actions: A Status Report
Editor: What trends are you seeing in consumer fraud class action cases? Weinberger: We are seeing more of them, and more are being brought in federal court. It could be that plaintiffs are turning to the consumer fraud area because Congress has made it more difficult to bring securities...
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