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CMN Secures Decertification of TCPA Class Action

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CMN lawyers moved to decertify the class in a lawsuit alleging the Firm’s health insurance client violated the TCPA by sending faxes to its contracted agents without the specific opt-out notice required by an FCC regulation. CMN successfully petitioned the FCC for a waiver of that regulation and, on August 28th, federal Judge Robert Blakey granted the Motion to Decertify. He agreed that the FCC waiver, as well as the D.C. Circuit’s recent holding in Bais Yaakov v. FCC that the opt-out regulation was invalid as applied to solicited faxes, made each class member’s consent to receive the faxes a critical and predominant individual issue that effectively precluded resolution of the litigation as a class action. The Opinion is available on the link below.

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CMN Attorneys Contribute to DRI’s New Life Insurance Compendium

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CMN attorneys Julie F. Wall, Craig M. Bargher, and Matthew H. Bunn recently authored the Illinois and Indiana chapters of the Defense Research Institute’s new life insurance book, “The Law of Life Insurance, Key Issues in Each State.”  The book is a compendium of the major issues in life insurance law for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.  It is an excellent resource for life insurance practitioners, particularly those with matters in multiple states.  If you are interested in obtaining a copy of this book or would like more information, please feel free to contact any of the authors directly, or click here.

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CMN Attorneys Author Long-Term Care Insurance Law Treatise

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CMN members William A. Chittenden, Joseph R. Jeffery and Jennifer S. Stegmaier recently co-authored the Chapter on Long-Term Care Insurance Law published in Appleman’s Treatise on Insurance Law.  The treatise chapter serves as a primer on long-term care insurance products and covers a wide range of litigation and regulatory issues involving long-term care insurance.  See, William A. Chittenden, III, Joseph R. Jeffery, Jennifer S. Stegmaier, New Appleman on Insurance Law Library Edition, Chp. 93A Long-Term Care Insurance (LexisNexis).  If interested in obtaining a copy or for more information, please feel free to contact any of the authors directly.

Elizabeth Doolin publishes article in “For the Defense” highlighting HIPAA developments

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The August 2016 issue of DRI’s For the Defense magazine features an in-depth examination of HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules, and potential exposure faced by health plans and their fiduciaries for breaches that lead to disclosure of protected health information, written by CMN member Elizabeth Doolin.  This article presents crucial information about this rapidly-developing area of the law.

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