The rise in the number of lawsuits filed in the Los Angeles area is contributing to heightened inflation and an increase in insurance costs. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Consumer Price Index (CPI), which was released on Feb. 13, prices in the Los Angeles area rose by 1% in January and 2.5% over the 12-month period ending in January 2024. A recent report identified a major contributor to California's CPI as the surge in tort filings and insurance-related lawsuits.
On the heels of another transformative year for the financial industry, Troutman Pepper’s Consumer Financial Services Practice Group is releasing the eighth edition of its Consumer Financial Services Year in Review & A Look Ahead.
Mara Curtis, a partner in Reed Smith’s Labor & Employment Group, has been recognized by the Los Angeles Business Journal for her outstanding accomplishments in the legal profession
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that our firm’s Insurance Recovery group has been named Benchmark Litigation’s 2023 Insurance Group of the Year, a distinguished honor that the group also received in 2020.
Legislation has been introduced in the California Assembly by Democrat Assemblyman Damon Connolly to permanently prohibit anyone born after Jan. 1, 2007 from ever buying cigars or any other tobacco products in California
Nikki E. Dobay, shareholder in global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP’s Tax Practice, will speak at the 2023 National Multistate Tax Symposium presented by Deloitte Tax LLP in collaboration with the Tax Section of the Florida Bar.
Real Estate attorneys Steven Lear and Alexis Alonzo will attend Information Management Network (IMN)'s 19th Annual Winter Forum on Real Estate Opportunity & Private Fund Investing.
