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Missouri Court Resets § 537.065 Strategy
Missouri Court Resets § 537.065 Strategy
Missouri’s Court of Appeals for the Western District has re‑centered § 537.065 practice. In Lyda v. Allstate, the court reversed a $6.14M agreed judgment and held that intervening insurers must be allowed to contest liability and damages—including conducting discovery, filing…
Florida Case Law Update: Key Appellate Decisions for Litigators
Florida Case Law Update: Key Appellate Decisions for Litigators
Florida’s appellate courts have recently clarified several recurring litigation issues—from constructive notice and punitive damages to assignment‑of‑benefits standing and evidentiary limits on corporate representative testimony. Defense lawyers in Florida are carefully monitoring the impact that these decisions may have on…
Surrogate Health Care Decisions and Their Impact on Arbitration Agreements
Surrogate Health Care Decisions and Their Impact on Arbitration Agreements
Can a Healthcare Surrogate Bind a Patient to Nursing Home Arbitration in Mississippi? Arbitration agreements are common components of admission paperwork for assisted living facilities, long-term-healthcare facilities, and skilled-nursing facilities. Often, admission paperwork, inclusive of any arbitration agreement or clauses,…
Maritime Risks: Chokepoints, Sanctions & the Dark Fleet
Maritime Risks: Chokepoints, Sanctions & the Dark Fleet
Admiralty Dark Thirty: How Chokepoints, Warzones, Fraudulent Registries, and Sanctions Impact Global Maritime Trade For regular maritime industry insiders and insurers observing the fallout of the recent developments in the Middle East, these events serve as a powerful reminder that…
How Montgomery v. Caribe Impacts Texas Freight Brokers
How Montgomery v. Caribe Impacts Texas Freight Brokers
From Highway Crash to the High Court Trucking defense lawyers are carefully monitoring one case that was recently argued before the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court took up the issue of whether the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act…
Modernization of Interstate Discovery in Texas Under the UIDDA
Modernization of Interstate Discovery in Texas Under the UIDDA
Texas Officially Adopts the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act On August 29, 2025, the Supreme Court of Texas published an order officially incorporating the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act (UIDDA) into Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 201. The…
Reframing the Question to Achieve the Intended Result in DBA Cases
Reframing the Question to Achieve the Intended Result in DBA Cases
Two recent decisions issued by the Office of Administrative Law Judges in December 2025 highlight the continued filings of subsequent claims and the effects (if any) of the settlement of prior claims. Both decisions focus on whether the settlement language…
Vessel Purpose in Offshore Platform Contracts
Vessel Purpose in Offshore Platform Contracts
Expectation vs. Reality: The importance of clearly outlining a vessel’s purpose in offshore platform contracts after Earnest, Offshore Oil Servs., and Genesis Energy A trio of Fifth Circuit opinions further analyzed the two-prong test created in In re Larry Doiron,…
2026 Louisiana Employment Law Update: Unemployment and Hiring Changes
2026 Louisiana Employment Law Update: Unemployment and Hiring Changes
Q1 Compliance Considerations for Employers As 2026 begins, Louisiana employers and those tracking employment law should be aware of two new employment-related statutes affecting unemployment insurance administration and hiring practices. While neither law creates new employee-facing mandates, both introduce operational…
Third‑Party Litigation Funding: A Guide for In‑House Counsel
Third‑Party Litigation Funding: A Guide for In‑House Counsel
Corporate legal departments continue to monitor the growth and impact of third-party litigation funding (TPLF). As funding models evolve and disclosure norms remain unsettled, in-house counsel face mounting questions about risk, effective strategies, legal system drivers, trends, and governance. We…
Galloway Secures MSJ in Pointe Coupee Parish Premises Case
Galloway Secures MSJ in Pointe Coupee Parish Premises Case
Director Campbell “Bowman” Fetzer obtained summary judgment on behalf of the Firm’s client in a premises liability matter in Louisiana state court. Galloway’s Mandeville team delivered pragmatic and strategic representation to achieve the favorable result in the 18th Judicial District…
Texas Attorneys Secure Arbitration Award in Frisco Construction Dispute
Texas Attorneys Secure Arbitration Award in Frisco Construction Dispute
Galloway Directors Mark “Tiger” Pharr of Dallas, Denise Lambert of Houston, and Associate Hannelore “Hanny” Saab successfully secured a favorable result through arbitration for their client, a residential builder specializing in custom, high-end homes. With vast experience and expertise in construction defect matters, Galloway partners with…
Texas Pay If Paid Clauses and Chapter 56 Limitations
Texas Pay If Paid Clauses and Chapter 56 Limitations
Clauses that say a subcontractor will be paid “when” or “until” the GC is paid by the owner are usually read as timing‑only—not a transfer of nonpayment risk to the subcontractor. Conversely, most construction contracts include a pay-if-paid clause, attempting…
Missouri Court Resets § 537.065 Strategy
Missouri Court Resets § 537.065 Strategy
Missouri’s Court of Appeals for the Western District has re‑centered § 537.065 practice. In Lyda v. Allstate, the court reversed a $6.14M agreed judgment and held that intervening insurers must be allowed to contest liability and damages—including conducting discovery, filing…
Can Cultural Polarization Lead to Nuclear Verdicts?
Can Cultural Polarization Lead to Nuclear Verdicts?
Cultural polarization has evolved beyond a political story into an inescapable and sometimes invisible force that shapes the jury in unpredictable ways. Media, both digital and social, and the socio-economic environment reward volume, certainty, and outrage, reinforcing “affective polarization” and…
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