In Kelly v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co., the Louisiana Supreme Court examined an insurer’s statutory duty to adjust an insurance claim in good faith. The court settled disputes regarding two issues: (1) whether an insurer ...

Arbitration is a dispute resolution technique whereby two or more parties agree to resolve their existing or possible future disputes before a private decision maker instead of a public court. This unique and efficient ...

Almost all of the 2,178 articles of the Louisiana Civil Code— the state’s principal source of law—use solely masculine pronouns. Yet contemporary research has made it increasingly clear that the use of such masculine-gendered ...

When Professor David Frakt arrived on campus at Florida Coastal School of Law to interview for the law school's dean position, few would have imagined that the current dean would threaten to have security escort Frakt off ...

This Article takes the form of a letter from Gulf Coast Katrina social justice advocates. Specifically, the Letter is addressed to those who work for social justice after a disaster strikes.1 This is our attempt to tell ...

Not every home in New Orleans flooded after Hurricane Katrina. Many did not. Some who stayed dry digested the enormity of the loss through high-definition televisions powered by whole-home generators. Others took the ...

Just as Hurricane Katrina caused unprecedented property damage, loss of life, and injury to a community’s sense of stability and standing, the enormous volume of resulting litigation in the courts of the Gulf Coast region ...