Risk Management

Your Data, Run Through A Beach House In Denmark

All the data the moves between one major U.S. terminal in New Jersey and a big European node in Denmark runs through one cable that terminates (or begins, depending on your point of view) in a nondescript brick building on the beach.

Weinstein’s Insurers Don’t Want To Pay

Accused movie producer Harvey Weinstein argues that Federal Insurance Co, a Chubb subsidiary, is obligated to defend and indemnify him […]

An Ominous Ruling For The Opioid Industry

A New York state judge has refused to dismiss the claims by eight New York counties against major opioid manufacturers. […]

Law Firm Serving Drinks Not Liable For Paralegal Death

A law firm that served liquor to employees as an enticement to get them to work longer hours was not […]

The Unresolved Enigma Of Kaspersky Labs

Accused of being a tool – possibly inadvertent – of Russian intelligence, and then blacklisted by U.S. officials, Moscow-based Kasperksy […]

Is Securitization Evil? Dechert Attorney Takes On The Pope

A declaration from the papacy took aim at securitization and credit default swaps, characterizing them as a kind of predatory […]

No Privilege For GC In Bizarre Coverage Dispute

A PGA Tour golf tournament gave rise to a bizarre insurance coverage dispute and a rare privilege question for the […]

Binding Arbitration Ban R.I.P.? Not In California

The California State Assembly has, by a wide margin, passed a law banning mandatory arbitration clauses in employment contracts. This […]

European Privacy Lawyer, Scourge Of Silicon Valley, Makes Good On Lawsuit Threats

Austrian lawyer Peter Schrems was early on to lax privacy protections by Facebook and has been credited with helping to […]

The Inscrutable Algorithm, Under Fire

The problem with machine-generated algorithms is they “somehow seem to absorb the bias around them…”

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