How can in-house counsel ensure they are handling insurance claims properly?

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A retired Prince George’s County firefighter was awarded damages of $300,000 after a federal jury found the county unlawfully retaliated against her for filing a complaint of racial and gender bias.

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Do you think your company will see an increase in discrimination and wage-and-hour claims?

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BERLIN — A German court has dismissed an Apple lawsuit seeking to ban the sale of Motorola’s Xoom tablet computer throughout the European Union. In its case, Apple Inc claimed the Motorola product infringed its intellectual property because its design ...

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A recent federal case, Tuli v. Brigham & Women’s Hospital, demonstrates how costly it can be for a health care organization to fail to respond to complaints about discrimination and harassment. Dr. Sagun Tuli was hired in 2002 by Brigham ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Attorneys for Facebook are asking a judge to dismiss a New York man’s lawsuit claiming half-ownership of the social networking site. The request comes in papers filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Buffalo. Attorneys for Menlo ...

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The Washington Redskins on Tuesday urged Maryland’s top court to sack prior decisions requiring the team to pay Maryland workers’ compensation benefits to ex-punter Tom Tupa, who suffered a career-ending back injury during preseason warm-ups at FedEx Field in Landover ...

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A judge ruled Friday that plaintiffs in a wrongful death case cannot claim malice by five state correctional officers who failed to prevent a man from killing a fellow inmate aboard a prison bus in 2005. The ruling by Baltimore ...

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BOSTON — Bankruptcy and consumer attorney groups have chimed in on a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals case in an effort to get clarity on what standards the bankruptcy court should apply in determining whether to certify a class. ...

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The questions around life insurance — Do I need it? How much? What kind (term, universal, whole life, variable, fixed)? — keep many people awake at night. And once purchased, how do you know you made the right decision? You ...

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