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National Staffing Organization Opens MediSums, Medical Records Summarizing

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The launch comes at a critical time as the COVID-19 global pandemic adds pressure with personal injury, med/mal, products liability, mass tort, healthcare, workers comp cases and insurance claims on the rise. The best Plan B's are different, but.

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More on the Validity of the PDVSA 2020 Bonds

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It conducted a debt swap in which investors exchanged unsecured PDVSA bonds for new ones due in 2020. To sweeten the deal, the PDVSA 2020s were backed by collateral in the form of a 50.1% The PDVSA 2020 bonds are in default. The story of the PDVSA 2020 bonds is a common one in government debt markets. Times have changed.

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Australia Robodebt royal commission hands down findings, recommends referrals for prosecution

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The Commission stated: Robodebt was a crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal, and it made many people feel like criminals. It was a costly failure of public administration, in both human and economic terms The report stated, “elements of the tort of misfeasance in public office appear to exist.”

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Third Issue of 2020’s Journal of Private International Law

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The third issue of the Journal of Private International Law for 2020 features the following articles: M Teo, “Public law adjudication, international uniformity and the foreign act of state doctrine” Should courts, when applying foreign law, assess the validity or legality of foreign legislative or executive acts therein?

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ILSPA’s Legal Secretaries Diploma Live online classes

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Our partner’s The Institute of Legal Secretaries and PAs are delighted to be offering live online classes , which start on Wednesday 26 January 2022. ILSPA’s Legal Secretaries Diploma course is equivalent to a Level 3 qualification. Introduction: General Procedures & Legal Terminology. ?Unit

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UK Supreme Court rules person under criminal investigation has reasonable expectation of privacy

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Claiming a tort of misuse of private information, ZXC sought damages and injunctive relief against Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s appeal was dismissed by the Court of Appeal in 2020, but the Supreme Court agreed later that year to hear the matter. In 2019, the trial judge ruled in his favor and awarded damages of £25,000.

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Tennessee HCLA Case Dismissed under Statute of Limitations.

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31, 2022), patient was hospitalized at defendant hospital from August 7-24, 2020. When patient was discharged on August 24, 2020, he was told to follow up with his primary care physician, but on September 3, patient was taken to a wound treatment center. M2022-00476-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 16545403 (Tenn. internal citation omitted).

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