Nikon relaunches image storage and sharing site as Nikon Image Space

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Nikon launches WR-10 radio-frequency camera trigger system in US

Jan 8, 2013 at 02:00:00 GMT ACCESSORY NEWS CAMERA-TRIGGER NIKON Share: Tweet Pin It Print view Email

Nikon US has announced a radio-frequency camera triggering system compatible with all its current DSLRs. The WR-10 system works over a 60m range and, unlike the current infrared system, does not require a line-of-sight between the trigger and the camera. Users of mass-market Nikons (D600 and below) can use the WR-T10 transmitter to focus or fire cameras with WR-R10 receivers attached to them. Owners of pro-grade DSLRs with 10-pin connectors can use the WR-A10 adapter to connect the R10 to their camera. This combination allows the camera to act as a host that can remotely trigger up to 64 other cameras.

The system was released in Europe in November, alongside the D5200.

From D5200 press release:

New optional WR-R10 and WR-T10 Wireless Remote Controllers

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Nikon launches 1 S1 and 1 J3 1-system mirrorless camera and 1 Nikkor lenses

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Nikon D5200, 24MP DSLR with 39-point AF gets US launch

Nikon USA has announced it is releasing the D5200 launched elsewhere in November 2012. The 24MP upper entry-level DSLR gains the 39-point AF system from the company’s higher-end models. The camera will cost around $899.95 with the Nikkor 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 VR kit lens. It includes an articulated 920k dot LCD and is compatible with the clip-on WU-1a Wi-Fi module. We previewed it back when it was launched in Europe so, if you still don’t know what makes the D5200 tick, the preview should cover it.

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Article: Assembling a Green Screen Video That Looks Great.DSLR | Video Skills with Rich Harrington: Adorama Photography TV

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Sports Law, Spaw, Lorts: Dude Sounds Like A Lady Edition

I don’t know what Gloria Allred does, exactly. I know she’s nominally an attorney because it says so on her Wikipedia page and also under her head when her head appears on my television screen. It says, “Attorney.” But, despite three years of law school, I have no idea what service she provides her clients. It’s always some weirdo at the periphery of a scandal she’s representing. A woman who bedded Tiger Woods, for instance. Or it’s a minor scandal that in years past would have been relegated to the Odd Stories column in your local newspaper. Like the time Roger McDowell got his gay slur on in front of some baseball fans. What connects these things is their apparent distance from anything resembling a legal issue.

Gloria Allred holds press conferences, as far as I can tell. And she talks sternly and forcefully, admonishing those bad actors who did her clients wrong. And after the microphones are turned off and the cameramen have all fled… well, I don’t know what it is she does. You can do anything with a law degree!

Which brings me to the latest in the Manti Te’o saga. The man behind Lennay has lawyered up, which thankfully allows me to write about Manti’s man in this here column.

Let’s talk Scandal Law. Scaw, Landal…

JUST TWO DUDES ON THE PHONE, BEING DUDES

Yesterday, news broke that the man alleged to have been behind (nope, did not go there) the Manti Te’o hoax, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, had engaged in hours of phone conversations with Te’o. All the while, pretending to be a girl named Lennay. This story, which had previously been rejected years ago by Saved by the Bell writers as “too fantastical,” was fed to the press by Tuiasosopo’s attorney, a man named Milton Grimes. Grimey explained his client’s actions thusly:

Tuiasosopo, 22, has had dramatic training, plays in a Christian band and even auditioned last year for the television show “The Voice.”

“Come on, Hollywood does it all the time,” Grimes said of his client pretending to be a woman. “People can do that.”

Couric asked Te’o what he would say to Tuiasosopo.

“I would just say you hurt me,” Te’o said.

Grimes said that Tuiasosopo wasn’t trying to hurt Te’o.

“This wasn’t a prank to make fun,” Grimes said, according to the Daily News. “It was establishing a communication with someone. … It was a person with a troubled existence trying to reach out and communicate and have a relationship.”

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Moonlighting: Why You Don’t Want To Be The General Counsel

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Florida Space Coast School of Law: Not An Onion Headline

The Challenger looked pretty good when it launched.

Houston, we have a problem.

We’ve mentioned the new proposed law school in the Daytona Beach area before, but I don’t think we’ve devoted a whole post to this project. Florida already has 12 freaking law schools. Twelve. Can we really pretend that one more is going to significantly change the comically (or tragically) over-saturated legal market in one of the states hardest hit by the housing market collapse?

Plus, it’s Florida… since when do people down there listen to reason? They can’t run an election. They’re unleashing their rednecks to battle their snake problem. I just don’t think anybody cares if they further damage their legal economy or take advantage of additional dumbasses who don’t know any better.

I really wasn’t going to write another full thing about it. And then, this morning, I learned that they intend to call the thing “Florida Space Coast School of Law.”

I mean… what can men do against such reckless hate?

For those who haven’t been following along, a group of businessmen decided to open a law school in the Daytona Beach area. Why? They think that students have to pay too much for a legal education, and they want to make a school that caters to non-traditional students. Those aren’t the worst reasons to open a law school. It’s still irresponsible to open a law school in a state that already has 12 freaking schools without making and publishing really good data on how there is a specific need for lawyers who graduate from your law school. But people in legal education don’t get rich for understanding where there’s a need for more lawyers, they make their money trying to figure out where there’s a need for more law students.

Which brings us to the “Space Coast.” Like I said, they were going to put the law school in Daytona Beach proper, but the building they were going to use turned out to be too small. From the Daytona Times:

Attorney Eric Smith said he was shocked when he learned last month that the old Daytona Beach Police Department building on the corner of Orange Avenue and Nova Road did not meet the size qualifications for a law school.

Daytona Beach city officials had been telling Smith and his partners from Jacksonville that the building had 55,000 square feet of space available for use. An appraisal on the building actually found that there is just 38,000 square feet of usable space.

Since they can’t have the law school in Daytona Beach, they’re now looking at places on the “space coast.” Look, I know that the space coast is a geographic thing. When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut (before I realized that astronauts had to be physically fit and do crazy dangerous things like ride a freaking bomb into space). Technically, calling your law school “Space Coast Law” is no dumber than calling your law school “Southwestern Law.” It’s the name of the place where the school is located.

But it sure sounds dumber. It sounds like you are opening a casino, not a law school.

And realistically, maybe that’s what Space Coast Law will end up being. It’ll be just another lottery law school, in which a couple of people leave winners and the vast majority of people leave wondering why they just wasted all their money. Listen to these plans:

They hope to initially enroll 80 students and grow the student body to 600 as well as secure accreditation from the American Bar Association (ABA), according to the National Law Journal.

Plans also call for the school to keep costs low by focusing on attracting practicing attorneys to teach…

Those involved say the school, which will be called the Florida Space Coast School of Law, would emphasize public service and pro bono work, and foster a cooperative, rather than competitive, atmosphere.

Nemerson and Smith believe the lower cost of education isn’t the only thing that will set them apart from Florida’s 12 other law schools. The new law school’s founders also plan to use practicing attorneys and judges as faculty.

Have you ever been to a casino with a non-gambler, and you head for the craps table, and your companion says, “Oh, I can’t afford to play craps, I’m going to the nickel slots.” Then you wipe the “Jane, you ignorant slut” look off your face just long enough to say, “You realize that slots are just about the stupidest thing you could do with your money in this entire, stupid casino?” Then they say, “Well, I can only afford to lose a couple of hundred dollars.” And you say, “But you’re definitely going to lose a couple of hundred dollars on the slots.” And they retort, “Well, you’re definitely going to lose it all on craps.” And you scream, “MAYBE! But you ALMOST CERTAINLY will lose. If you can’t understand ODDS could you at least understand goddamn ENGLISH!”

Does that happen to other people?

That’s what I feel when I see these Space Coast Law plans. Telling poor people that this is a law school they can “afford” doesn’t help really help if their chances for success are minuscule. There are already 12 law schools in Florida. Instead of going to the 13th one, maybe you should just take your law school tuition and put it on the pass line and hope for the best.

P.S. Speaking of gambling, Lat and I will be in Las Vegas next month. We’re debating legal education at UNLV Law School on Monday, February 11th, at noon, in an event sponsored by the Federalist Society and the American Constitution Society. I’d say the odds are good that you’ll find us at the Wynn on Saturday night, February 9th, in case you are interested.

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D.C. Circuit Strikes Down Some Of Obama’s Recess Appointments

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Court Says Trial Needed To Determine If Universal Music Violated DMCA With Dancing Baby Takedown

Ed. note: This post appears courtesy of our friends at Techdirt. We’ll be sharing law-related posts from Techdirt from time to time in these pages.

We’ve covered the Stephanie Lenz / dancing baby / fair use case for years — but now it looks like there’s finally going to be a trial to consider if Universal Music can be punished for sending a DMCA takedown notice on a video of Lenz’s infant son dancing to 29 seconds of a song by Prince, which Lenz asserts was clearly fair use.

If you haven’t followed the case, it’s been argued back and forth for years. At one point, the court ruled that a copyright holder does need to take fair use into account before sending a DMCA takedown, but that there needs to be “subjective bad faith” by Universal Music in sending the takedown. In other words, Lenz (and the EFF, who is representing her) needs to show, effectively, that Universal knew that it was sending bogus takedowns. The EFF has argued that willful blindness by Universal meant that it had knowledge (amusingly, using precedents in copyright cases in the other direction, where copyright holders argue that willful blindness can be infringement)….

There are a few other issues being fought over — including Universal Music’s contention that the DMCA doesn’t apply at all here (both because it insists it wasn’t really sending a DMCA takedown, even as YouTube required a DMCA takedown, and because it’s arguing that YouTube itself doesn’t qualify for the DMCA because it helps process videos — an argument courts have rejected repeatedly). However, Universal also sought summary judgment on the fair use issue in the other direction, arguing that it is clear that Universal did not have “subjective bad faith” in issuing the takedown, since it believed the takedown to be legit (and still does…).

The judge has rejected both arguments for summary judgment, saying that there are disputed facts that need to have a full trial — in part because Lenz failed to show any evidence that Universal had reason to believe that there was a high probability that some of the videos it was taking down would be covered by fair use. This point is necessary if Lenz is going to demonstrate willful blindness.

Lenz does not present evidence suggesting that Universal subjectively believed either that there was a high probability that any given video might make fair use of a Prince composition or that her video in particular made fair use of Prince’s song “Let’s Go Crazy.” Lenz argues that her video was “self-evident” fair use and that Universal must have known it constituted fair use when it sent the Takedown Notice. However, as the Ninth Circuit recently has observed, the process of making a fair use determination “is neither a mechanistic exercise nor a gestalt undertaking, but a considered legal judgment.” …. A legal conclusion that fair use was “self-evident” necessarily would rest upon an objective measure rather than the subjective standard required by Rossi. Indeed, Universal presents evidence that Lenz herself initially did not view her claim as involving fair use….

Accordingly, the Court concludes that Lenz is not entitled to summary judgment based on the theory that Universal willfully blinded itself to the possibility that her video constituted fair use of Prince’s song. Nor is Universal entitled to summary judgment, as it has not shown that it lacked a subjective belief that there was a high probability that any given video might make fair use of a Prince composition. Lenz is free to argue that a reasonable actor in Universal’s position would have understood that fair use was “self-evident,” and that this circumstance is evidence of Universal’s alleged willful blindness. Universal likewise is free to argue that whatever the alleged shortcomings of its review process might have been, it did not act with the subjective intent required by

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Geithner says history will validate unpopular Wall Street bailouts

Outgoing Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner defended the Obama administration's unpopular decision to push for a bailout of the nation's largest banks in a pair of exit interviews published Thursday, telling The Economist and The Wall Street Journal that history would validate the decision.

But Geithner admitted that bank bailouts would remain unpopular among voters who viewed such assistance as looking "like you're giving aid to the arsonist."
 
"There's no explanation powerful enough to soften the inevitable fear and anger and resentment that's going to come with a crisis that did so much damage to the innocent," Geithner told the Journal.

The Treasury Secretary admitted that the fear of a financial collapse required a government intervention that appeared "deeply unfair."

"The paradox is that the things that are ultimately just in terms of making sure you can protect the average person from a failing system require you to do things that are going to look deeply unfair and unjust because you have to try to make sure to prevent a collapse," he continued.
 
But Geithner told The Economist that despite the moral hazard created by such a response, the alternative was worse.
 


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Auto Insurance Claimants Happy with Speedier Settlements

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Auto insurance customers continue to be pleased with not only with their claims settlement amounts but also with how quickly their claims are being settled.

Also, insurance claims adjusters are doing a better job of speeding up the claims process than repair shops, new research suggests.

Overall, claimant satisfaction increased by six points in the fourth quarter of 2012 to 861 on a 1,000-point scale from the fourth quarter of 2011, according to the latest J.D. Power and Associates 2013 U.S. Auto Claims Satisfaction Study, Wave 1.

The rise was primarily due to an 11-point increase in settlement satisfaction.

As repairable and total loss claims are being paid faster, overall claimant satisfaction rises, the study says.

The study finds that the average time to pay claimants has decreased to 13.9 days in the fourth quarter of 2012, down from 16.4 days in the same period of 2011. While the average time to pay claimants for a repairable claim (11.8 days) has decreased by 1.3 days from the fourth quarter of 2011, the largest decrease is in the time it takes to pay total-loss claims, down by an average of 5.1 days to 18.5 days.

“Regardless of the claim type, the faster the claimant is paid and can move forward with a repair or to replace their vehicle, the more likely they are to be satisfied,” said Jeremy Bowler, senior director of the insurance practice at J.D. Power and Associates. “In addition, satisfaction with the claims professional is at an all-time high, indicating that the process is becoming smoother, with more frequent updates throughout contributing to a much more satisfying experience.”

Interestingly, while overall claim satisfaction increases and the time it takes to pay claimants decreases, the average cycle time of the vehicle repair increases by 1.2 days to 13.5 days in the fourth quarter of 2012, compared with 12.3 days in the fourth quarter of 2011.

The study measures claimant satisfaction with the claims experience for auto physical damage loss by assessing six stages in the claims process: first notice of loss; claim service interaction; damage appraisal; repair process; rental experience; and settlement.

Satisfaction with the repair process is 862, a decrease of two points from the fourth quarter of 2011. Contributing to lower satisfaction is a decline in the percentage of vehicles being fixed right the first time

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Scruggs Appeals to Supreme Court

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The U.S. Supreme Court will hold a conference Feb. 15 to decide on whether to hear an appeal from Zach Scruggs, who was implicated as having knowledge of a judicial corruption scheme that toppled his father, plaintiffs’ lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs.

Court officials say a decision could be announced shortly after the conference.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld Zach Scruggs conviction last October.

The younger Scruggs, a law partner with his father, pleaded guilty to failing to report a conspiracy to improperly influence a judge in a dispute with other lawyers over $26.5 million in legal fees. He served a 14-month prison sentence and also lost his law license.

Richard Scruggs and three others were convicted in the bribery scheme.

 

 

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N.Y.-Based WKFC Underwriting Managers Hires Executive Vice President

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Melville, N.Y.-based WKFC Underwriting Managers appointed Brian Specht as executive vice president, professional lines.

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House Rules: Standing Corrected?

I wrote last week about ideas to build a book of business. My main point was to start small and branch out from there. I mentioned how, as a young and naïve (ok, ignorant) associate, I was quickly disabused of the idea that I would soon be able to waltz into Pfizer and pick up some strands of litigation.

Then I received the following email in my Gmail account. It is a well-written counterpoint to my argument. A partner in New York City argues that starting small is a recipe for staying small.

I reprint his email (largely unedited) below….

“As someone who developed a $500K

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The Biglaw Flowchart That Tells You When You Can Leave The Office

ByElie Mystal

We’ve all been there. It’s Friday. It’s 5:30 p.m. The rest of the working world is already well into their weekend, their three-day weekend.

But you’re not sure if you can leave. You work in Biglaw, and you don’t know if it’s okay to simply get up from your desk and re-join the rest of free humanity.

Well here’s something that can help you. A former Biglaw associate made a handy chart to let you know when it’s okay to leave….

A tipster sent us a link to something his friend put up about life in Biglaw. It’s funny. It’s also pretty much exactly accurate. HTH.

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Quote of the Day: Howrey Going To Void These Loans?

Stephen O’Neal

I later found out that during this whole period of time… when I was being romanced by Citibank, that they had reason to believe — in fact, they knew — that Howrey was in default of material covenants, and they didn’t tell me that.

– Stephen O’Neal, a former partner of Howrey LLP, in a deposition in his pending litigation against Citibank. O’Neal and another former Howrey partner, David Buoncristiani, allege that Citibank committed fraud by encouraging them to finance their capital contributions with Citi, claiming that Howrey was financially sound when the bank knew Howrey wasn’t.

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New Partner Watch: Incoming Partner Classes at Ten Top Firms

Congratulations! You made it!

Few people are happier about the world’s surviving the Mayan Apocalypse than new partners at top law firms. Can you imagine slaving away in Biglaw for almost (or even over) a decade, finally winning election to the partnership in late 2012, and then having the world end before your hard-won partner status took effect?

Fortunately that didn’t happen. Heck, we didn’t even go over the fiscal cliff. But some people will have to pay higher taxes this year (and for many years to come).

Like these people: the talented and hardworking lawyers who, as of January 1, 2013, became partners of their respective law firms. Let’s find out who they are, so we can congratulate them….

We’re going to do what we did back in 2010 and look at the new partner classes at the top ten most prestigious law firms, as ranked by our friends at Vault. We’ve debated in these pages for and against prestige, but at least as of now, prestige still carries a lot of weight in the legal profession. We don’t have the time or resources to write about the new partners at every Vault 100 or Am Law 100 firm, so we’re drawing this admittedly arbitrary line.

(Of course, we are open to writing about new partner classes at firms outside the Vault 10 or “V10,” as long as there’s something interesting about the announcement. If you think you have possible fodder for us, please email us and explain what you view as the noteworthy partner news.)

Now, without further ado, let’s look at the partner classes. If you click on each firm’s hyperlinked name, you’ll be taken to the firm’s profile in the Above the Law Career Center (where the firms are assigned letter grades for their “Insider Rating” and “Industry Reputation”).

1. Wachtell Lipton: For most firms, you can go to the firm website, surf over to their collected press releases, and find the release announcing the new partners. Alas, the publicity-shy Wachtell Lipton doesn’t post news releases on its notoriously barebones website (despite recently improvements to the site). But luckily I received this email announcement as a former Wachtell Lipton associate:

As many of you may already know, Ronald C. Chen, Gordon S. Moodie, DongJu Song and Bradley R. Wilson will become members of the firm on January 1, 2012.

You could say of this quartet what you could say of WLRK lawyers generally: an impressive group, with glittering résumés, although a bit short on diversity. All four are male; all graduated from top law schools (Harvard for Chen and Moodie, Duke for Song, and Cornell for Wilson); and three out of four are corporate lawyers, with Wilson as the lone litigator. Yes, Chen and Song are Asian, but some folks don’t think that counts for diversity purposes.

2. Cravath, Swaine & Moore: We previously discussed the new CSM partners back in November (in the course of speculating — correctly, as it turned out — that the larger-than-usual partner class would be followed by larger-than-usual bonuses). There were five new Cravath partners in all, we observed: “Three male corporate lawyers, a tax guy, and a litigatrix. Sounds like a good group.”

3. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom: In the latest Vault rankings, Skadden traded places with Sullivan & Cromwell, with Skadden moving up to third place and S&C moving down to fourth. Unlike many other firms, Skadden names new partners in April of each year. In April 2012, the firm made eleven new partners:

Robert A. Fumerton – Litigation – New York
Alejandro Gonzalez Lazzeri – Corporate/Latin America – New York
Scott C. Hopkins – Corporate – London

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Gregory Berry’s ‘Superior Legal Mind’ is Back in Action on the Appeal of His $77 Million Case Against Kasowitz Benson

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Young Michigan Immigrants Sue to Get Right To Drive

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Three young people are suing the Michigan secretary of state over her refusal to grant driver’s licenses to applicants who can stay in the U.S. under a new federal immigration policy.

The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, says the immigrants should be eligible for licenses if they’re allowed to stay in the U.S. The lawsuit asks a Detroit federal judge to issue an injunction to stop the state’s policy.

The plaintiffs announced Wednesday are a 20-year-old medical student in Detroit, a 17-year-old high school student from Ann Arbor and a 21-year-old University of Michigan student.

President Barack Obama last summer said immigrants who entered the country illegally as children wouldn’t face deportation under certain conditions.

An email seeking comment was sent to the secretary of state’s office.

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Idaho’s Otter Opts For State-Based Insurance Exchange

Butch” Otter said a state-built health insurance exchange is the best option for Idaho under the federal government’s health care overhaul, but left the final decision up to lawmakers who return to Boise in January.

Otter has criticized President Obama’s health care overhaul

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Guatemalans Huddle in Streets after Deadly Quake

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Guatemalans fearing aftershocks huddled in the dark and frigid streets of this mountain town wrapped in blankets early Thursday, while others crowded inside its hospital, the only building left with electricity after a powerful earthquake killed at least 48 people and left dozens more missing.

Crews worked through the night in San Marcos, searching rubble for survivors and more dead following the magnitude 7.4 quake that struck Wednesday near Guatemala’s border with Mexico.

In the town of San Cristobal Cochu, firefighters picked at a collapsed house trying to dig out 10 members of one family, including a 4-year-old child, who were buried, fire department spokesman Ovidio Perez told the radio station Emisoras Unidas.

Volunteers carrying boxes of medical supplies began arriving in the area in western Guatemalan late Wednesday.

Eblin Cifuentes, a 26-year-old law student, and a group of his classmates already were collecting medical supplies as part of a school drive to provide aid for the only hospital in San Marcos, a poor, mainly indigenous mountain area of subsistence farms. When the quake hit, the group decided to bring everything they had collected.

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How To Choose The Right Photo Paper

Many images are saved in their digital format, but few are made into a hard copy. These often serve a special purpose, from images that are printed and framed to images that are printed and sent to commemorate a special event. If you are looking to source the correct photo paper to meet your needs, here’s how to go about evaluating various options.

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Hiscox Launches Solo Strike Liability Protection for US Healthcare Institutions

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To counter the growing threat of an attack by an individual on healthcare institutions, Hiscox has launched a dedicated solo strike liability insurance product for the US healthcare market. In the event of an attack, Hiscox’s Solo Strike Liability, designed specifically for hospitals and larger healthcare facilities, will respond with liability protection as well as providing immediate crisis management support.

The growing number of high profile lone attack incidents has raised the overall awareness of the threat that individuals, who are intent on causing harm, can pose. Healthcare institutions, which themselves have fallen victim to a number of lone attacks over recent years, are softer targets because of the high throughput of people and the increased chance of an individual entering a premises unchallenged in a relatively unsecure environment.

Hiscox’s Solo Strike Liability offers:

USD $50 million standard limits, with access up to USD $100 millionSpecific and specialist coverage in the event of lone individual attack. Includes deadly weapon protection liability form and applicationPrimary insurance, intended to respond first in the event of a lossService of risk management specialists Control Risks in respect of risk management and mitigation including disaster recovery, business continuity and crisis management.

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Miller Opens Paris Office

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Specialist insurance and reinsurance broker Miller Insurance Services LLP has opened an office in Paris in a move to increase its reinsurance presence in Europe. Pierre Guntzberger will be based at the new office and will “work closely with the existing teams in London and Brussels to enhance our service to French clients,” said the announcement.

Mike Papworth, Head of Facultative Reinsurance commented:

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What’s new @ CES 2013

QUICK LINKS:VideosSample ImagesCamera TimelineLink Directory NewsReviewsBuying GuideSample ImagesArticlesCamerasLensesPrintersSoftwareForumsGalleriesChallenges ArticlesShow ReportsWhat’s new

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