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Regulators need babes, bucks to ferret out fraud
The BP oil rig explosion and collapse in the Gulf of Mexico last month is prompting a reassessment of U.S. policy on deep-water drilling. It's also inspiring calls for more regulation. Just as the subprime crisis exposed cracks in the financial regulatory system, so has the oil spill unearthed conflicts of interest at the Minerals Management Service, the agency in charge of offshore drilling.People in the News - PLW Feb. 5, 2013
Claudia Huot was named a partner in Wisler Pearlstine.New Privacy Law Limits Employer Usage of Employee Social Security Numbers
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the crime of identity theft. Social Security numbers are now commonly used by employers as passwords or employee identification numbers. In an attempt to address the problem of identity theft, California recently passed a law, effective July 1, 2002, that imposes significant additional prohibitions upon companies and the use of social security numbers as identifiers.
Calls for State Insurance Threaten Property Transfers
Adam Leitman Bailey, founding partner of Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., and Dov Treiman, a partner at the firm, write: Currently before the State Legislature are two bills that would inject the state in the business of title insurance, damaging New York's standing as the capital of real estate transactions. One would broaden the power of the State Insurance Fund to provide a State alternative to the current private system of title insurance. The other would create a new state title authority for the same purpose. Many real estate attorneys see these bills as a threat, both to the heart of the safe transfer of real estate and to the capitalist system itself.
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Board of Contributors: A system in need of mending, Florida's Legislature tackles PIP
Fred Karlinsky says, despite repeated efforts by the Florida Legislature to implement PIP reform and antifraud measures, the state's automobile insurance system has become fraught with abuse that threatens its very foundation.
Escape Hacker Hell With Microsoft's Help
Cybercriminals have become an increasingly sophisticated and elusive group, hiding in every corner of the globe. Early hackers simply sought notoriety but today, there's money to be made from spam, phishing and other online crimes. Attorney Tim Cranton, director of Microsoft's Internet safety enforcement team, explains what you can do to protect your own network from malicious attacks.Microsoft's Lawyers Battle Hackers
Collaboration with law enforcement helps snare suspects.
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