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A warning to financial institutions: failure to issue a litigation hold may have serious consequences

  • Frost Brown Todd LLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 3 2013

As electronic discovery has become more prevalent and voluminous, national standards for the preservation of evidence have evolved dramatically in

PI claim(s) by a financial planner, aggregation, broker’s negligence and loss of a chance in one

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • June 27 2011

Prosperity Advisers Ltd v Secure Enterprises Pty Ltd TAs Strathearn Insurance Brokers Pty Ltd 2011 NSWSC 35 illustrates aggregation issues in a professional indemnity claim by a financial planner, and how the relevant facts and precise words of the policy are always determinative of whether claims may be aggregated so a single deductible (rather than multiple deductibles) applies

Legal and market developments in Russia - summer autumn 2012

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • Russia
  • -
  • November 7 2012

Russia Update: Legal and market developments in Russia Summer Autumn Issue 2012 Macro Updates

SLUSA doesn't preclude variable annuitants' breach of contract claims

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 7 2013

On January 2nd, the Ninth Circuit partially reinstated contract claims asserted by purchasers of variable universal life insurance policies

Promoters beware: life settlements may be securities, even if only one investor is involved - despite the recently reported Zang decision

  • Locke Lord LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 26 2010

There have been a few short articles written about a September 27, 2010, decision by a federal Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court, Northern District Illinois, Eastern Illinois

U.S. District Court denies motion to dismiss in Sivolella case

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 22 2012

The US District Court for the District of New Jersey denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss a pending action under Section 36(b) of the 1940 Act, holding that a participant in a variable annuity program has standing to bring the action

Court of Appeal to consider availability of court action to top up FOS awards

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 9 2013

The Court of Appeal has granted a firm permission to appeal a recent High Court decision which held that complainants who accept an award of

AXA to face new breed of excessive-fee lawsuit

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 16 2011

On July 21, 2011, plaintiffs filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, et al. (“AXA”) alleging that AXA received excessive fees for its work managing eight subadvised variable annuity funds

2012 in review: key legal and regulatory developments

  • Allen & Gledhill LLP
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  • Singapore
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  • December 20 2012

This table provides an overview of the key developments in 2012 to date

Key financial services decisions of 2012

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 12 2013

The cases highlighted below provide a snapshot of some of the key judgements which shaped the legal landscape with respect to financial services