Albany, NY — (SBWIRE) — 08/09/2017 — It has been noted that, in the U.K., total number of personal injury claims recorded during 2016-17 has fallen, but its categorized motor claims have marginally risen by 1.2% in 2016-17. This has affected the U.K. personal injury litigation market to some extent. To study in-depth, Market Research …
Monthly Archives: August 2017
NH Legal Perspective: Top 10 best practices to help employers avoid litigation – The Union Leader
By ELIZABETH A. BAILEYSheehan Phinney August 19. 2017 9:48PM Unfortunately, employment-related litigation has become a cost of doing business. Here are ten best practices that will help an employer operate its business, avoid litigation, or put itself in a better position if the employer is sued. 1. Implement an Effective Employee Handbook: Employee handbooks …
Litigation Said to Create Surprise Windfall For Deutsche Bank – Bloomberg Big Law Business
By Eyk Henning and Steven Arons, Bloomberg News Deutsche Bank AG’s legal issues haven’t all been one-way traffic. The German lender, which has posted two consecutive annual losses amid rising misconduct fines, booked a surprise windfall of more than 100 million euros ($117 million) in the first half related to an out-of-court settlement with a former …
Ceres Global Ag Provides Update on Scoular Litigation – Markets Insider
TORONTO, Aug. 18, 2017 /CNW/ – Ceres Global Ag Corp. (TSX: CRP) (“Ceres” or the “Corporation”) provided an update today on the status of the pending action commenced by The Scoular Company (“Scoular”) in the United States District Court of the District of Minnesota in 2014. In the action, Scoular is seeking injunctive relief and damages …
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Network-1 Announces Settlement of Patent Litigation With Axis Communications
/EINPresswire.com/ — NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – August 16, 2017) – Network-1 Technologies, Inc. (NYSE MKT: NTIP) (NYSE American: NTIP) announced today that it agreed to settle its patent litigation against Axis Communications, Inc. and affiliated entities (“Axis”) pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, for infringement of …
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UK Litigation Funder Woodsford Puts $20M Toward Lewis Baach
London-based Woodsford Litigation Funding Ltd. on Wednesday announced a $20 million investment deal with litigation boutique Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss—a move that comes less than a month after Woodsford opened its first U.S. outpost in Philadelphia. Describing the deal as a “global portfolio financing facility,” Woodsford and Lewis Baach said in a joint statement that …
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Three Planning Litigation to Stop EE and Vodafone
[Total: 0 Average: 0/5] The upcoming 4G and 5G spectrum auction is posed to be a huge boon for consumers over the coming years, with signal improving in major towns and cities, alongside rural locations. However, not all is well when it comes to the networks bidding to buy the spectrum. In particular, Three …
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International legal community’s outrage at plan to hold 2019 World Litigation Forum in Dubai
-Written by Andrew Harris: The WLF represents a broad spectrum of the most respected names in the field of litigation as well as many others working in the wider legal fields. Among its supporters are international giants Coca Cola, HSBC, UNILEVER and Nokia. The WLF’s decision to hold their 5th annual forum in the United …
Drug industry faces ‘tidal wave’ of litigation over opioid crisis – Financial Times
Companies that make or distribute opioid painkillers are facing a “tidal wave” of litigation as US officials seek to raise funds to fight the country’s addiction epidemic and punish those they accuse of fuelling the crisis. The number of government officials launching legal action against drugmakers and wholesalers has soared in the past year in …
Cost of Patent Infringement Litigation Falling Sharply
By Malathi Nayak, Bloomberg BNA Patent litigation costs declined drastically from 2015 to 2017, as litigants controlled expenses and increasingly skipped courtrooms to challenge a patent’s validity at the Patent and Trademark Office, IP attorneys told Bloomberg BNA. The median overall cost for a patent infringement case with $1 million to $10 million at stake …
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