Order on Plaintiffs' and Third-Party Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment on Defendant PRG's Counterclaims and Third-Party Claims (PAYLESS CAR RENTAL SYSTEMS, INC.)

Third-Party Actions: A Plaintiff 's Perspective

INTRODUCTION Paragraph 2-406 of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure permits a defendant to join a third party who may be liable to him for all or part of the plaintiffs claim against him. , Although paragraph 2-406 pertains directly to actions that may be initiated by defendants, third-party practice poses significant ramifications for the plaintiff in terms of trial strategy and negotiation, ...

Order on Motion for Summary Judgment of Third-Party Defendants St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company and CPD Plastering, Inc. (KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, INC.)

The purposes of impleader claim

Impleader claim is one of ancillary suits which permit to the parties to implead third person to the action and became that person one of parties. The Iran civil procedure code, unlike some other countries for example Lebanon no attention to purposes of Impleader claim and in Article 135 the subject is expressed in general terms. With attention to generally speaking of this Article and re...

Testing for Asymmetric Information in Automobile Insurance Market an Iranian Insurance Company

The presence of asymmetric information is an important source of efficiency loss for insurance companies and could reduce profitability. In this paper, we test the conditional independence of coverage choice and risk, where “conditional” means conditional on all variables observed by the insurer. We use two parametric methods: a pair of probits and a bivariate probit model. The data includes al...

The Process Is the Problem

Malcolm Feeley’s book, The Process is the Punishment, highlights how the cost to criminal defendants of invoking their rights in lower criminal courts ultimately ends up being greater than the benefits of the rights themselves. In doing so, Feeley reveals how the costs of the pretrial process are not only important sanctions in their own rights, but also how they in turn shape and are shaped by...