This week’s notable decision is Arruda v. Zurich Am. Ins. Co., No. 19-1247, __F.3d__, 2020 WL 880548 (1st Cir. Feb. 24, 2020), where the First Circuit parted from its sister circuits in declining to adopt a “substantial factor” test to…

Think of someone driving 17 miles per hour over the speed limit on an unpaved road.  What words initially come to mind?  If one of them is “crime” then you might agree with the outcome in this week’s notable decision,…

You may remember the case last year involving a group of Maine dairy delivery drivers who received $5 million in a proposed settlement all due to a missing Oxford comma.  (A lack of an Oxford comma cost dairy $5 million.) …

This week’s notable decision is Tran v. Minnesota Life Ins. Co., No. 18-1723, __F.3d__, 2019 WL 1894769 (7th Cir. Apr. 29, 2019).  The Seventh Circuit reversed the district court’s ruling finding that the insured’s death from autoerotic asphyxiation was an…