It looks like California’s largest homeowners insurer is getting a large rate increase following billions of dollars in losses from the Los Angeles wildfires and pullback on writing new policies in the state. Administrative Law Judge Karl Seligman recommended approval of State Farm interim rate hike on Monday. California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara still must … Read more
Editor’s note: This post is part of the EJIL:Talk! Symposium on ‘Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? African, Inter-American and European Perspectives.’ As is well known, unlike most other international human rights instruments, the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, to give it its full title, and the Protocols thereto (hereafter, also … Read more
DoorDash Inc. asked a California judge to dismiss Uber Technologies Inc.’s anticompetition lawsuit against it, arguing that Uber is using an “ill-fitting” state law to justify its claims. DoorDash, which has two-thirds of the U.S. food delivery market, argued in a statement about their filing in state court in San Francisco that Uber’s February lawsuit … Read more
Brown, Goldstein & Levy partner Jacqui Cadman was honored to be asked back to the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law’s Criminal Defense Clinic on April 8, where she used her expertise to serve as a judge for the Clinic’s mock suppression hearings. This is the second consecutive year that Jacqui was … Read more
Brown, Goldstein & Levy is delighted to congratulate former partner Chelsea Crawford on being appointed to the position of United States Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Chelsea took the oath of office during an informal ceremony on March 24. A formal ceremony will be held at a … Read more