CYBER INSURANCE POLICIES
LARGER CURRENTS AFFECTING COVERAGE LAWYERING[1] Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D., C.P.C.U. There are now broad and deep shifts going on in the waters of insurance law practicing. They are jolting. These heavy flood-like flows are principally generated by the...
SILLIEST INSURANCE COVERAGE CASE EVER + LEGAL FEES
Duty to Defend v. Duty to Pay for Defense This insurance case is styled Coreslab Structures (Texas), Inc. v. Scottsdale Insurance Company, Cause No. 14-14-00865-CV (Houston--14th Court of Appeals. Opinion Filed July 28, 2016). The underlying case--the one which gave...
LAWYER CLINTON AND HER EMAIL SCANDAL(?) (EMAILGATE?)
WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT COMEY SAID AND WHAT HE DIDN'T SAY Michael Sean Quinn* Hillary Clinton is a lawyer. ** (See below) What did she know? When did she know it? And how did FBI Director, James B. Comey describe it? (Just as a side-note, one should keep in mind...
Legal Ethics, Lawyer Retentions and Insurance Underwriting
An Explosive Texas Supreme Court Decision This piece is ultimately about insurance underwriting for legal malpractice insurance. It begins, however, with a very unusual Texas Supreme Court decision, and a series of hypothetical paradigms based upon that case. The case...
INSURANCE AND CONTAINERIZED SHIPPING–SOME HISTORY
These are mostly book reviews I wrote a decade ago, or so, and published in some obscure journal. Maybe they might be of some interest to a select few. CARGOS, CONTAINERS, COMPUTERS, and INSURANCE Michael Sean Quinn* Marc Levinson, The Box: How the Shipping...
INSURANCE CONTRACT/POLICY INTERPRETATION AND AMBIGUITY
HOW TO READ, THINK, AND STRUCTURE Michael Sean Quinn* Sometimes there are brief and succinct formulations of the la> such that if L grasps it deeply--down into the lawyer-component of his inner being, s/he will understand the legal situation and know what needs to...
“”LOSS-OF-USE” DAMAGES, A SLAVE NAMED “BEN,” AND TEXAS LEGAL HISTORY
DAMAGES INFLICTED AND THE RIGHT TO COMPENSATION Michael Sean Quinn* Traditionally, in the common law the damages one was entitled to for the loss of a tangible object was the value of the object at the time of its loss. The most traditional of all causes of...
THE CONCEPT OF “COMPENSATION”
DAMAGES AND COMPENSATION IN CIVIL LITIGATION Michael Sean Quinn* You can't have enough legal education. If you studied damages in law school and if you have been out of law school for more than six months, it's time to go back to the fundamentals. The Supreme Court of...
Damages for Total Destruction of Tangible Personal Property
PHYSICAL DAMAGE TO CHATTELS TODAY AND THE "LOSS OF USE" DOCTRINE Michael Sean Quinn** For several centuries damages for loss of use of chattels, e.g., horses and/or slaves and/or other movable (i.e., personal) property could be awarded by courts to...
Some Legal Dictionary Entry Conjectures:”Order, Adjudged, and Decreed”
"ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED" Michael Sean Quinn** One frequently sees two or three of the above three words conjoined in court documents, such as final orders, final judgments, final decrees, judicial decisions, decisions of courts, and/or interlocutory entries of...
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