Social media includes such Internet applications as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN, MySpace and blogging. When people started using such media, many thought it was purely for personal reasons and basically ignored its business implications. That is no longer true. In fact, with hundreds of millions of people using social media, it is rapidly the phone and even email as a primary form of communication.
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When a business is sued, it should report the action to its insurance company, as soon as possible. Sometimes, an insurer will deny coverage of the claim, asserting that a certain exclusion in its policy is applicable, or other policy defenses.
In Wisconsin, however, this is not necessarily the end of the story. If there is any possibility that coverage may exist given the terms of the claim made against its insured, the insurer is required to provide its insured with a defense attorney at its cost, and seek a stay of the action while the court determines whether it owes coverage under its policy. It's failure to do so may result in it being held liable for the claim and its insured's defense costs, regardless of whether coverage actually exists under the policy.
Continue Reading...For decades, the US Government and 24 states have had laws regulating corporate spending to support or oppose candidates running for office. In a most extraordinary US Supreme Court case decided on Thursday, January 21, 2010, justices overruled parts of a 63 year old law which prohibited businesses and unions from producing and running their own campaign ads.
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