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.
Lusitania Disaster: Law of Wills — Who died first? Part VIIIA
Lusitania, Probate Law, the Who-Died-First Question-or-Who Shall-We-Say-Died-First-or-Who-Gets-the-Dough Part VIIIA Michael Sean Quinn (See below) One of the significant legal controversies created in the very much churning wake of the Lusitania catastrophe was In re...
Crime Against Lawyer Part III
Young Lawyer Murdered: A Twisted Tale With a Twist Part III Michael Sean Quinn (See below) I have written about this incident twice earlier this year: April 14, 2015 and April 29, 2015. The theories of the police as to how the David Messerschmitt...
Texas Concurrent Causation Rule: Contract v. Tort–Different Ideas
An Anti-Concurrent Causation Clause in Insurance Contracts Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D., C.P.C.U, Etc. This is a description of the central issue in the JAW The Pointe, L.L.C. v. Lexington...
Lusitania Catastrophe: Workers Compensation Part VII
Lusitania Disaster—Part VII A Workers Compensation Controversy Michael Sean Quinn (See below.) Systems of compensation for worker/employee death or injuries are ancient. In some cases, as old as insurance itself—or older even. In the modern age, however,...
Lusitania Catastrophe: Part VI — Accident Insurance — State Regulation
The Lusitania Disaster and Insurance Regulation—Part VI Michael Sean Quinn* I know. Just when you thought you were done, another insurance case pops up. There will be a few more, one of them really unusual...
Lusitania Catastrophe: Part V — Life Insurance, Contracts of Life Insurance and Problems of Probate: “Why Died First?
Lusitania, Life Insurance, and "Who Died First" – Part V Michael Sean Quinn* (*See more below) The sinking of the Lusitania produced a number of legal actions--a goodly amount of litigation. This...
Lusitania Catastrophe, Insurance Issues, and International Law –Part IV.B
THE SINKING OF THE R.M.S. LUSITANIA, WAR RISK, and INSURANCE LAW, Decades Later Part IV.B Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D., C.P.C.U. . . .* There are other insurance disputes that arose quickly, either directly or indirectly, out of the sinking of the Lusitania, and...
Lusitania Disaster Litigation: Insurance, War Risk Exclusion — Part IV.A
THE SINKING OF THE R.M.S. LUSITANIA AND INSURANCE, Part IV.A Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D., C.P.C.U. . . . The first reported case of litigation flowing out of the Lusitania catastrophe on May 7, 1915, a hundred year ago was a simple looking case in which coverage...
Lusitania Litigation 1918: Part III — Judicial Opinion and Expert Opinions
THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA AND LITIGATION, ESPECIALLY INSURANCE*-- *There will be little out-and-out said in this essay about insurance. It lurks behind everything, however. This blog is about a judicial decision regarding negligence on the part of the owner of the...
Luistania Catastrophe Part II: Wreck Commission of 1915
REPORT OF WRECK COMMISSIONER’S COURT: Lusitania’s Sinking July 18, 1915 Michael Sean Quinn (For more information see below.) As everyone knows, out of the 1,959 persons (passengers and crew) on the Lusitania 1,195 perished when a German submarine torpedoed the cruiser...
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