Based On 2013 1219 – Cost of Insurance Litigation – Insurers Retain Discretion to Set COI Rates in Two Key Victories – [link] 2019 0425 – American Bar Association – “Based on” What? Courts Split over Cost of Insurance Rates, Steuart H. Thomsen, Phillip E. Stano, and Wilson G. Barmeyer – [link] 2013 – LC – Norem…

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Courts Court of Appeals uscourts.gov/ Case Video Archive History of Cameras in Courts

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Court of Appeals uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/court-role-and-structure/about-us-courts-appeals ca3.uscourts.gov/oral-argument-recordings ca3.uscourts.gov/oral-argument-recordings-video ca4.uscourts.gov/oral-argument/listen-to-oral-arguments ca9.uscourts.gov/media/   5th Circuit Court of Appeals 2013 – Johnston & Johnston v. Conseco ca5.uscourts.gov/Opinions/pub/13/13-30010-CV0.pdf 13-30010 09/05/2013 Johnston & Johnston v. Conseco Life Insurance Co.   MP3 2013 0423 – Legal Case – Johnston and Johnston v Conseco 13-30010_Documents ACLI AMICUS BRIEF – 48p http://www.bonknote.com/wp-content/uploads/11-2013-Johnston-and-Johnston-v-Conseco.mp3 http://www.bonknote.com/wp-content/uploads/12-2013-Johnston-and-Johnston-v-Conseco.mp3 http://www.bonknote.com/wp-content/uploads/13-2013-Johnston-and-Johnston-v-Conseco.mp3 http://www.bonknote.com/wp-content/uploads/14-2013-Johnston-and-Johnston-v-Conseco.mp3…

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Accountability Second, it was observed that ….. there is virtually no accountability for any of the participants in the sale, ..not for the company, not for the agent, and interestingly, the white paper discussed accountability on the part of the purchaser as well. —  Robert E. Wilcox,  Utah Insurance Commissioner and Chairman of the Life Disclosure Working…

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Fiduciary Advice Incidental Advice DOL – Fiduciary Rule – Department of Labor  Fiduciary Duty Relationship (p54) – 1:34-1:41 – Eric DINALLO, Superintendent, New York State Insurance Department – Well, I think it’s important for everyone to know there’s a very strong tension between policyholders’ interest and shareholders’ interest in a publicly traded company. The board and management…

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Law Reviews 1900-1939 1919 – LR – The Delivery of A Life-Insurance Policy, by Edwin W. Patterson – 26p 1940-1949 1943 – LR – Contracts of Adhesion Some Thoughts About Freedom of Contract, by Friedrich Kessler – 15p 1946 – LR – Regulation of the Insurance Business and Public Law No. 15, by Herbert H.…

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Unauthorized Practice of Law “National Conference of Lawyers and Life Insurance Companies” ABA – American Bar Association Unauthorized Practice of Law 1951 – LR – The Bar and the Unauthorized Practice of Law: A Survey – 13p 1955 – LR – The Unauthorized Practice Controversy, A Struggle Among Power Groups, Quintin Johnstone – 57p 1964 – LR…

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Expert Witnesses Blumenthal v New York Life 82-1 – Defendant Expert Witness Report – Michael LaBoeuf – 23p 85-3 – Deposition of David Sanderford – Plaintiff Expert Witness – 65p Fay v Aetna Hager, Claire, Affleck 2012 0313 – LC – Thao v Midland, United States District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin, 2:09-C-1158-LA Declaration of Robert E.…

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Depositions 2010 – LR – Lawyers Gone Wild: Are Depositions Still a Civil Procedure Note, Eric B. Miller – 33p Depositions are one of the most effective discovery tools in a lawyer’s arsenal.  Blumenthal v New York Life 2010 – LC – Blumenthal v New York Life – Deposition of Irving Blumenthal (Exh 1 and…

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Puffery Puffery Bluffing Forward Looking Statements 2011 – AP – Bluffing in Insurance Sales: A Pakistani Perspective. by Hina Butt.  Master’s Thesis in Applied Ethics, Linköpings Universitet – 45p See State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Slade, 747 So. 2d 293, 322-23 (Ala. 1999) (holding that insurance agent’s statements that the purchased insurance policy was “the…

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