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Captive reinsurance litigation stayed pending Supreme Court decision

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 7 2012

A putative class action against HSBC and its affiliates asserting violations of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 was stayed in part pending the outcome of First American Financial Corp

Ninth Circuit concludes AT&T v. Concepcion preempts California state law

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 19 2012

Plaintiffs brought a putative class action alleging violations of California’s Unfair Competition Law in connection with student loans

Court overturns subprime mortgage reinsurance-related breach of contract ruling

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 27 2011

In a breach of contract action, Plaintiff Ambac Assurance sought to recover damages for the loss of more than $1 billion from investment accounts created to fund notes it guaranteed issued by a special purpose vehicle established to reinsure term life insurance policies

Safeco granted collateral security but must subtract claims actually paid

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 18 2010

The case involves the interpretation and enforcement of a collateral security provision of an indemnification agreement relating to Safeco's service as a surety on construction contracts

Arbitrator to decide whether arbitration agreement’s ban of class actions is unconscionable

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 15 2010

In a dispute centered on retroactive credit card interest-rate increases, Mr. and Mrs. Puleo, on behalf of those similarly situated, appealed the District Court’s decision that the enforceability of an Arbitration Agreement’s ban on class actions was a question of arbitrability for the court to decide

Litigation or arbitration? The Eighth Circuit decides

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 10 2010

Plaintiffs Patricia Hooper and Josephine Vaughn filed a putative class action against their payday lender, Advance America Cash Advance Centers of Missouri Inc., in federal district court