Dr. Quinn maintains several blogs which discuss various topics related to the practice of law. Currently, these blogs include Insurance Law, Insurance Law History, Law Practice, Expert Witness Testimony, Jurisprudence, and Philosophy.
INSURANCE LAW BLOG
Insurance law falls into three major categories. First, the insurance company will hire lawyers to represent the insured in case they are sued for something related to their insurance contract. These are known as "insurance defense attorneys." The second category of insurance law helps insured people determine when an insurance company must pay a claim. Third, insurance companies typically hire attorneys to make sure the company complies with all applicable laws and regulations, which can vary by state.
Topics: Coverage disputes, insurance bad faith, cases, news, perspectives, and practices.
INSURANCE LAW
LatestInsurance: Duty of Good Faith–Statutory Basis
Statutory criteria for insurer bad faith in dealing with insureds exists in almost all states. Sometimes it is based on the Model Act, sometimes not. The Model Act requires that insurers have rules, principles or...
EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY BLOG
An expert witness, particularly in common law countries such as the United States, is a person whose opinion by virtue of education, training, certification, skills or experience, is accepted by the judge as an expert. Expert witnesses may also deliver "expert evidence" within the area of their expertise. (Visit Expert Witness Testimony to learn more).
Topics: expert witness...
EXPERT WITNESS
LatestExpert Witness: “Objection. Not Responsive” Whose Objection?
Here is what might be called: The Lawyer’s (L’s) Own Witness Problem An expert witness is giving a deposition. There are three lawyers in the room. The expert witness is giving an opinion in the hire of P (or,...
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LAW PRACTICE BLOG
There are various ways in which lawyers can run into legal-related problems or issues of legal ethics including civil lawsuits, legal malpractice, and breach of fiduciary duty or lawyer criminality and its consequences for discipline.
Topics: legal malpractice, legal ethics, civil lawsuits, fiduciary duty, lawyer criminality, and discipline.
LAW PRACTICE
Latest“A Business Decision”
I was just reading a deposition in which the soon-to-be Purchaser of a company did not contact a bank about a loan it had made to the Seller. The failure to contact was a disaster: litigation only lawyers can love. When asked...
JURISPRUDENCE BLOG
Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of the propriety of law seeking to explain the nature of law in its most general form and provide a deeper understanding of legal reasoning and analogy, legal systems, legal institutions, and the proper application and role of law including the social, philosophical, political and other random topics.
Topics: legal theory, nature of law, legal reasoning, legal systems, legal institutions, the role of law, social, philosophical, and other random topics.
JURISPRUDENCE
LatestSTOP LOSS INSURANCE
Consider the following dialogue. It is more or less based upon variations of recent Opinions set forth by the Supreme Court of Texas. The people having this discussion are Quink and Malvinio. Noticing the tilting, even,...
IN THE COURTS
The courts of the United States are closely linked hierarchical systems of courts at the federal and state levels. The federal courts form the judicial branch of the US government and operate under the authority of the United States Constitution and federal law. The state and territorial courts of the individual U.S. states and territories operate under the authority of the state and territorial constitutions and state and territorial law.
COURTS
INSURANCE LAW – History
The practice of insurance law, including insurance policies and claims can be broadly broken into three categories - [1] regulation of the business of insurance; [2] regulation of the content of insurance policies, especially with regard to consumer policies; and [3] regulation of insurance claims.
INSURANCE LAW HISTORY
PHILOSOPHY BLOG
Philosophy of law is a branch of philosophy that examines the nature of law and law's relationship to other systems of norms, especially ethics and political philosophy. Philosophy of law and jurisprudence are often used interchangeably, though jurisprudence sometimes encompasses forms of reasoning that fit into economics or sociology.
PHILOSOPHY
OLDER POSTS – All Blogs
Expert Witness–Testing for Legal Sufficiency
EXPERT WITNESSES & JUDICIAL EPISTEMOLOGY The Texas Supreme Court recently wrote a case which...
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BitTorrent
I am basically a tolerant, liberty-oriented, and liberal-minded person. I was delighted to see...
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On the Rhetoric of the Ridiculous
Overdoing rhetoric in briefs, motions, pleadings, etc., is poor, tasteless, and below-grade...
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“Madam. Are you certain today?” [Sketch I]
There is a species of questions with respect to which witnesses (including expert witnesses) must...
Read More“If you don’t understand the question. . . .??
Near the beginning of many depositions there are the following questions and often the following answers: Q. If you don’t understand my question can we agree that you will tell me?A. Yes.Q. So if you don’t tell me,...
Read MoreInsurance Coverage Opinions
A Very Small Bit of Insurance Law History Ever wonder what the early history of coverage opinions was? When was an early one written in a formal mercantile context involving reinsurance? Here is a possibility. ...
Read MoreAIG netADVANTAGE COMPLETE INTERNET INSURANCE
The following is an older-ish AIG cyber-world contract of insurance, that is, a cyber-space insurance policy. Remember, given the speed of the commercial growth of the cyberworld, something can be old when it is...
Read More“Breadwinner Moms” & Law Firms
The Pew Research Center just published a report entitled “Breadwinner Moms.” It is the talk of the “daily talk shows” or the “argument shows.” What people have love to talk about...
Read MoreCyber Insurance and CGL Packages–Part II
This series of blog-essays contain an introduction to the Comprehensive General Liability policy used in the “real-world,” along with a type of liability insurance for the “cyber-” or “virtual...
Read MoreThe Unhappy Legal Culture–Part I
Evidence from “Don’t Do It” Is there really evidence that the legal profession is in a state of decline? Evidence is weak, at best. See Richard A. Epstein, “The Rule of Lawyers” WALL STREET...
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