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A Practical Digest of Louisiana Class Action Decisions
Date: 2008 A practical digest of Louisiana Class Action decisions
Reliability Is the Gauge: Recent Daubert Challenges to Experts in Environmental Litigation
Date: 2008 Environmental litigators face unique challenges in dealing with the expert phase of a lawsuit. This article, reproduced with permission from the American Bar Association, addresses Daubert challenges.
Raising the Bar
Date: 2007 Kean Miller's community service efforts were highlighted in the Fall 2007 edition of Imagine Louisiana.
Estate Planning Is For Everyone
Date: 2007 Think you don't need a will and testament? Think again. Republished with permission from Imagine magazine, Spring 2007.
The World of the Construction Attorney: The Good, The Bad, and The Lawyer
Date: 2007 Much of the time of a construction lawyer is spent assisting clients in finding solutions to the many problems that befall the typical construction project.
D.C. Circuit Vacates Equipment Replacement Provision (ERP) Rulemaking
Date: 2006 On March 17, 2006, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated EPA's final Equipment Replacement Provision rulemaking.
Taking Stock of Your Insurance Post-Katrina
Date: 2006 Every business owner, home owner, or lessee should take the time to do a complete review of their insurance policies.
Louisiana Estate Planning - Some Information You Should Know
Date: 2006 The term "estate planning" is not restricted to planning or drafting of wills for individuals who will have a federal estate tax consequence at death.
Louisiana Supreme Court Addresses Arbitration Agreements
Date: 2006 The Louisiana Supreme Court addressed the enforceability of an arbitration agreement in Aguillard v. Auction Management Corporation.
Local Know-how
Date: 2006 Federal Preemption of State Pharmaceutical Product Liability Tort Law
Date: 2006 The FDA announced on January 18, 2006 that it is issuing final regulations making a "major revision" to the format of prescription drug information.
The Act of God Defense Under Environmental Programs in Louisiana
Date: 2005 The "Act of God" defense is found in many state and federal environmental statutes.
Insurance Coverage for Defective Workmanship
Date: 2005 A recent case out of Louisiana's Second Circuit Court of Appeals could be big news for general contractors, owners, and insurers.
Wind Versus Flood Coverage and Hurricane Katrina
Date: 2005 Hurricane Katrina's impact on insurers and their policyholders have set in motion one of the largest legal policy storms to hit the U.S.
Nature's Fury or Human Blunder? The 'Act of God' Defense in Louisiana
Date: 2005 Louisiana recognizes the principle that an "act of God" can be a complete defense to liability for negligence and strict liability claims.
The Lone Pine Order As a Case Management Tool for Complex Litigation
Date: 2005 "Lone Pine order" refers to a case management order that requires plaintiffs in define their injuries and demonstrate evidentiary support.
Post-Katrina Louisiana Contracts and the Doctrine of Impossibility
Date: 2005 Many businesses in Louisiana are now assessing how Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita have affected and will continue to affect their contracts.
Insurance Claims After Katrina
Date: 2005 Hurricane Katrina will have enormous impact on policyholders and their insurers in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
Private Works Act Performance Bonds
Date: 2005 Is the contractual agreement limiting the time within which an owner must file suit to enforce a private works performance bond enforceable?
Transferring the Family Business to Your Children
Date: 2005 You've built a successful business that provides you a good salary and employment for several of your children. Now you want to sell. What are your key considerations?
Pre-Empted Exemption
Date: 2005 People who use a certain type of trust for their homes risk running afoul of Louisiana tax assessors.
Katherine King - 2005 Influential Woman in Business
Date: 2005 Katherine W. King is gentle but firm warrior in Louisiana industry's battle to stay competitive in a ruthless global economy.
Louisiana Supreme Court Clarifies Mineral Lessee's Surface Restoration Obligations in School Board v. Castex Energy
Date: 2005 The Louisiana Supreme Court has held that a mineral lessee has no implied obligation to backfill oilfield access canals.
Louisiana Supreme Court Adopts Pro Hac Vice Rule
Date: 2005 The Louisiana Supreme Court recently adopted a new Rule XII Section 13, governing the participation by out of state attorneys in Louisiana litigation.
Additional Insured Status - Recognizing Coverage Risks
Date: 2005 Those with business relationships with an insured often seek to protect themselves from liability that arise out of the insured's activities.
Number of Non-Profit Hospitals Sued in Charity Care Class Actions Continues to Grow
Date: 2005 Several high-profile law firms have continued to file class action lawsuits against non-profit hospitals.
Staking a Claim
Date: 2004 Kean Miller represents policyholders. (As originally appeared in the October 26, 2004 edition of The Baton Rouge Business Report)
Entrepreneurial Medicine
Date: 2004 Motivated by changes to Medicare and new changes in payment rates for services, physicians and hospitals are developing new providers.
Nine Questions for Defending Asbestos Litigation
Date: 2004 Getting Uncle Sam on the hook for World War II asbestos exposure.
Sales Tax Relief for Louisiana Interstate Truckers
Date: 2004 Read this Kean Miller Business Bulletin from tax partner Chris Dicharry on sales tax issues for the Louisiana trucking industry.
Corbello - The Aftermath
Date: 2004 Louisiana law on the calculation of property damage awards in cases involving environmental pollution has undergone significant change in recent years.
Trends in Upstream Litigation
Date: 2004 Impact of recent Louisiana decisions on upstream environmental litigation (Corbello, Grefer).
Feds pay in Superfund lawsuits
Date: 2003 Read comments from Kean Miller partner Erich Rapp on federal environmental liability.
Awardable Damages in Environmental and Toxic Tort Cases in Louisiana
Date: 2003 This Kean Miller white paper is an overview of the types of damages available in environmental/toxic tort cases.
Living the changes since 1978
Date: 2003 Read this profile of Bill Jarman and Kean Miller from the 25th Anniversary edition of the National Law Journal.
Commercial Litigation in Louisiana: 7 Practical Tips
Date: 2003 Seven practical tips to consider in commercial litigation cases in Louisiana.
The Environmental Legacy of World War II
Date: 2003 Since its enactment in 1980, the Superfund statute has ushered in an era of environmental legal warfare between the federal government and companies with clean up costs that have escalated into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
From Bedside to Business
Date: 2003 A host of new regulations are keeping doctors busy outside of the examining room.
TMDLs for Louisiana Waterbodies
Date: 2002 An Emerging Issue for Louisiana Industries and Cities.
Rules of The Road In Air Emission Cases Expert Depositions in the Era of Daubert and its Progeny
Date: 2001 - Admiralty and Maritime
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