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JON SNOW Aiico insurance is not as profitable and efficient as most people think as the insurer’s aggressive claims payment has culminated in weak or negative underwriting performance. According to the company’s 2015 audited financial statement, its combined ratios (CR) was 175.09 percent as at December 2015, a figure that has crossed the 100 percent […]Read More

Global consulting firm, Boston Consulting Group has set up a Lagos office, which will be its 85th office globally. The consulting firm said that its aim is to provide custom-made, impact-driven solutions to clients, rather than take a one-size-fits-all approach. Its entry into Nigeria is for the long term and it will attract top local […]

You have contracts with vendors and employees. You have trade secrets agreements and domestic patent protections. You’re even pursing individual foreign patents. But, if you’re not filing an application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, you’re overlooking an important tool to protect your company’s intellectual property internationally. The Patent Cooperation Treaty creates a unified procedure for […]Read More

Are the San Diego’s policies employing canine units to “bite and hold” an unconstitutional violation of civil rights? Reasonable minds may disagree, and that is why the Ninth Circuit has reversed a lower court dismissal of the lawsuit allowing the suit to move forward to trial. However your opinion may lean on this issue — […]

What do you get when you combine two feuding porn stores, a re-routed propane hose, a homemade incendiary device, and a one-eyed giant called Mau Mau? One heckuva lawsuit. Because as it turns out, you can’t even get a decent explosion out of that. Instead, Mau Mau (nee Mark Fuston) had to pour line fuel […]

Panic hit in the upper crust over the weekend after 11 million documents were leaked from the secretive Panama law firm of Mossack Fonseca. The documents revealed just how some of the world’s most influential people launder their assets away from prying governmental eyes. World governments, for their part, have reacted with predictable urgency. Will […]

Uber wasn’t as lucky in its attempt to stop litigation in its tracks as it was in another lawsuit brought against the transport-app company. A US District judge has decided not to grant Uber’s motion to dismiss and instead let the price-fixing issues be heard by a jury. Uber has to do battle on two […]

The Eleventh Circuit recently upheld the conviction of “an international sex trafficker named ‘Drac’ (short for Dracula) who sometimes dressed up as a vampire, complete with yellow contact lenses and gold-plated fangs.” Drac, also known as Damion St. Patrick Baston, a Jamaican pimp with a theatrical side, was convicted for sex trafficking across the globe, […]

A recent Fifth Circuit case highlights the importance of making sure that indemnity clauses in commercial goods sales are airtight. In Perry Luig v. North Bay Enterprises, the First Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s ruling that a defendant company should not be heard to present evidence that they had been bilked into […]

Unfortunately, nobody was expecting good news to come out of the last administration of the bar exams, but when word got out that the MBE scores slipped to a 33-year low, we had to ask: when will the pain stop? The average scaled score for the February administration of the MBE notched down again to […]

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the Internet. Drones have become cheap and fun to operate for many people. Operators love to fly their drones up into the sky, maneuvering them around while taking and photos and videos from aerial vantage points. But do these activities come with […]

Successfully running a firm doesn’t just mean mastering the law and pleasing clients. You’ve also got to be able to manage an office. And office management is just one of the many things they don’t teach you in law school. Luckily, FindLaw’s got your back, with plenty of tips on how to manage an efficient, […]Read More