Honoring the life and legacy of a trailblazing civil rights activist Sadie T. M. Alexander was the first Black woman to graduate from Penn Law, and made her mark on law, economics, and government.
During Black History Month, The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (Penn Law) is paying tribute to the legacy of Sadie T.M. Alexander, the first Black woman to graduate from the Law School, by launching three new full tuition scholarships created in her honor. Last semester, Dean Ted Ruger expressed the intention to create these scholarships thanks to the suggestion of Penn’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA).
Report urges overall strategy for national security and climate crisis
“The 2018 National Defense Authorization Act affirmed that ‘climate change presents a direct threat to national security,’ but most people don’t fully understand the repercussions not just to the environment but also to the economy, military readiness, human security, spread of disease, migration, and more,” Meise says. “This report aims to educate people about these threats and make clear why an all-encompassing security strategy is imperative.”
Drawing on the documented effects of climate change in the Arctic region and beyond, Meise identifies security threats, challenges, and opportunities posed by climate change across economic, human, and hard security sectors. The report details fragmented approaches to climate change policy; calls for coordinated policy support from federal, state, and local government; and makes recommendations for how the Biden-Harris administration should prioritize inst
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Almost 1,500 lawsuits have been filed by policyholders against insurers, seeking to resolve disputes around insurance coverage for COVID-19-related business losses.
For those unfamiliar with insurance litigation trends, it’s important to put the scale of this into perspective. The average hurricane will result in about 50 to 100 cases being filed in the first year; from April till August 2020 we saw the same quantity of cases being filed
each week for COVID-19-related losses.
So far, rulings have been made overwhelming in the favor of insurers, at a rate of approximately 75%. However, there have been some significant rulings in favor of policyholders over the last few months which should cause insurers pause for thought.
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