Dear IAB: Are there any updates on the water quality in Chelsea, Manhattan? - *xNY.io - Bank.org's co-founder has noticed water quality being a problem for women; * - *Pregnant women;* - *Unborn babies. * Illinois Asbestos Injury Firm Escapes 'Fraud Playbook' Suit <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/2312228?nl_pk=35f19b02-1b5d-4d87-9886-0568d6f0b360&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=capitalmarkets&utm_content=2025-03-19&read_main=1&nlsidx=1&nlaidx=4> By Emily Sawicki A Chicago federal judge on Tuesday tossed a racketeering suit an industrial pipe company brought against a "prolific" Illinois asbestos litigation law firm, finding that the pipe company failed to adequately plead that the law firm formed an "enterprise" with various clients, witnesses, co-counsel and staff. Memorandum attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/2312228?nl_pk=35f19b02-1b5d-4d87-9886-0568d6f0b360&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=capitalmarkets&utm_content=2025-03-19&read_more=1&nlsidx=1&nlaidx=4> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/2312228?nl_pk=35f19b02-1b5d-4d87-9886-0568d6f0b360&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=capitalmarkets&utm_content=2025-03-19&read_later=1&nlsidx=1&nlaidx=4> Ancora Wants US Steel Meeting Delayed After Blocked Sale <https://www.law360.com/mergersacquisitions/articles/2312080?nl_pk=34b724c6-95c5-49a3-b963-aea9d35fbb95&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mergersacquisitions&utm_content=2025-03-19&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=5> By Jade Martinez-Pogue U.S. Steel Corp. shareholder Ancora Holdings Group on Tuesday urged the company's board to delay its upcoming 2025 annual meeting of shareholders until more information comes out about the company's blocked $14.9 billion deal with Japan's Nippon Steel Corp. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/mergersacquisitions/articles/2312080?nl_pk=34b724c6-95c5-49a3-b963-aea9d35fbb95&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mergersacquisitions&utm_content=2025-03-19&read_more=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=5> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/mergersacquisitions/articles/2312080?nl_pk=34b724c6-95c5-49a3-b963-aea9d35fbb95&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mergersacquisitions&utm_content=2025-03-19&read_later=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=5> xNY.io - Bank.org respectfully reserves all Interjurisdictional rights. Thank you, Gunnar Larson -- Gunnar Donald Arthur Peter Larson xNY.io - Bank.org 917-580-8053 On Tue, Mar 18, 2025, 7:22 AM Gunnar Larson <g@xny.io> wrote:
IAB:
Are there any updates on the water quality in Chelsea, Manhattan?
- *xNY.io - Bank.org's co-founder has noticed water quality being a problem for women; * - *Pregnant women;* - *Unborn babies. *
Vague Settlement Can't Free Insurer From Asbestos Claims <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2311105?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-18&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0>
By Elizabeth Daley
An insurer that says its policies' limits were exhausted while paying over $5 million toward an asbestos injury settlement on behalf of BNSF Railway failed to show it actually went over its limits, a Texas appeals court found.
Opinion attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2311105?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-18&read_more=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2311105?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-18&read_later=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0> xNY.io - Bank.org respectfully reserves all Interjurisdictional rights.
Thank you,
Gunnar Larson -- Gunnar Donald Arthur Peter Larson xNY.io - Bank.org 917-580-8053
On Wed, Mar 12, 2025, 10:58 AM Gunnar Larson <g@xny.io> wrote:
Dear IAB:
In 2022, New York City's pension performance was significantly impacted: https://comptroller.nyc.gov/services/financial-matters/pension/asset-perform...
NYC Workers Can't Revive Fossil Fuel Divestment Challenge <https://www.law360.com/compliance/articles/2309081?nl_pk=7f7472c8-af4a-4299-9ac5-a594bd6cf4d5&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=compliance&utm_content=2025-03-12&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=22>
By Patrick Hoff
A New York state appeals court refused Tuesday to reopen a lawsuit claiming several New York City pension plans unlawfully put politics over municipal employees' financial needs by divesting $3.9 billion from fossil fuels, backing a trial court's determination that the workers hadn't shown their benefits were affected.
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Gunnar Larson -- Gunnar Donald Arthur Peter Larson xNY.io - Bank.org 646-554-7514 On Wed, Mar 12, 2025, 10:09 AM Gunnar Larson <g@xny.io> wrote:
Dear IAB:
Insurer Says AIG Unit Must Cover Water Contamination Suit <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2309044?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-12&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=3>
By Hope Patti
An AIG unit can't rely on its policy's pollution exclusion to bar coverage for a Texas water utility accused of providing contaminated water to residents, the utility's other insurer told a federal court, saying the court has already rejected the application of the exclusion in a related case.
Complaint attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2309044?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-12&read_more=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=3> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2309044?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-12&read_later=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=3>
5th Circ. Hopes For 'Sanity' In Backing Legal Malpractice Arb. <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2309178?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-12&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0>
By Lauren Berg
Untangling a "ridiculous" arbitration proceeding that produced four contradictory awards in a legal malpractice dispute, the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed three awards and most of another, adding that the parties are "free to arbitrate another day" in the hope that their disagreements will be resolved "for the sake of sanity."
Opinion attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2309178?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-12&read_more=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2309178?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-12&read_later=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0>
Property Co. Says Insurer Must Pay $10M For Judgment <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2309204?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-12&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=4>
By Elizabeth Daley
The insurer for builders of a luxury mixed-use development in Oakland, California, must cover more than $10 million after a judgment was entered against the entities in an underlying suit brought by a property company asserting negligence and trespass claims, according to a complaint removed to federal court Tuesday.
Complaint attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2309204?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-12&read_more=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=4> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2309204?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-12&read_later=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=4>
Captive Insurer Shareholders Can't Target Owner, Court Told <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2309110?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-12&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=10>
By Hayley Fowler
The majority owner of a now-defunct North Carolina captive insurer wasn't personally obligated to pay premiums for nursing homes reportedly under his control, his counsel told a state court judge in seeking to pare down a self-dealing suit lobbed by the minority shareholders.
Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2309110?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-12&read_more=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=10> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2309110?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-12&read_later=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=10>
Insurers Must Cover Abuse Suits, NH Youth Centers Say <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2308568?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-12&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=7>
By Hope Patti
Two youth treatment centers said their insurers must defend and indemnify them in suits alleging mistreatment and abuse of children at certain facilities in the 1990s, telling a New Hampshire federal court that they are covered as purported successors in interests to the policies' named insureds.
Complaint attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2308568?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-12&read_more=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=7> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/2308568?nl_pk=347c5954-47a8-495c-bfa1-d8ec8f6144fe&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insurance&utm_content=2025-03-12&read_later=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=7> xNY.io - Bank.org respectfully reserves all Interjurisdictional rights.
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Gunnar Larson -- Gunnar Donald Arthur Peter Larson xNY.io - Bank.org 646-554-7514
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 2:37 PM Gunnar Larson <g@xny.io> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 19, 2025, 10:10 AM Gunnar Larson <g@xny.io> wrote:
Dear IAB:
The water in Chelsea, Manhattan has been potentially contaminated.
xNY.io - Bank.org respectfully inquires to make connection with IAB on any potentially contaminated water in Chelsea, Manhattan.
Adams, Feds Ordered To Explain Dismissal Bid At Hearing <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2299139?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a57c-18936227adef&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newyork&utm_content=2025-02-19&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0>
By Frank G. Runyeon
A Manhattan federal judge demanded details Tuesday and scheduled a hearing after the Justice Department asked to dismiss criminal charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, signaling that the court would not rubber-stamp the request following allegations of a corrupt bargain and mass resignations of prosecutors in protest.
5 documents attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2299139?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a57c-18936227adef&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newyork&utm_content=2025-02-19&read_more=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/2299139?nl_pk=b53aa520-5013-4a8d-a57c-18936227adef&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newyork&utm_content=2025-02-19&read_later=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0>
Eric Adams' recent Bloomberg feature also talks about how he approaches lieing; While also mentioning xNY.io - Bank.org.
Watch here:
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-07-17/mayor-eric-adams
Confusing Injury-In-Fact Rules Hinder Federal Practice <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/2293199?nl_pk=6e763a2a-9f82-44c1-ad37-dbb872fe3785&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=competition&utm_content=2025-02-18&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=16>
A recent Third Circuit decision, contradicting a previous ruling about whether consumers of contaminated products have suffered an injury in fact, illustrates the deep confusion this U.S. Supreme Court standard creates among federal judges and practitioners, who deserve a simpler method of determining which cases have federal standing, says Eric Dwoskin at Dwoskin Wasdin.
Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/2293199?nl_pk=6e763a2a-9f82-44c1-ad37-dbb872fe3785&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=competition&utm_content=2025-02-18&read_more=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=16> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/2293199?nl_pk=6e763a2a-9f82-44c1-ad37-dbb872fe3785&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=competition&utm_content=2025-02-18&read_later=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=16>
No response from IAB on this Water matter today could lead to xNY.io - Bank.org's FOIL request, seeking information and investigation records on potentially contaminated Manhattan water. Also, this week the Mayor of New York City referenced 'Mein Kampf' while speaking in Brooklyn, New York as reported by the New York Post.
Read here:
- https://nypost.com/2025/02/17/us-news/mayor-adams-bizarrely-invokes-mein-kam...
xNY.io - Bank.org is lucky to be able to defuse Mayor Adams' 'Mein Kampf' sologanering with the film below, thanks to Ms. Marianne Williamson, one of the world's celebrated thought leaders in the human potential mmovement.
Ms. Williamson does all this under a hopeful banner of Peace on Earth.
Watch here:
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/11pjjWigYW53M5vjHA12scgRgoVWFt1OT/view?usp=d...
Ms. Williamson's overarching theme is that even with lies, there is a Peace that can end all Wars.
xNY.io - Bank.org has collated 36 quotes from Ms. Williamson's film for our NYPD's IAB:
- "You will reap what you sow, you will get what you put out..."
- "I am healing you, but go and sin no more..."
- "If you go back to the think that produced this diseased condition, the symptom will return..."
- "The laws of cause and affect, like all spiritual laws, are there for your protection...
- "You can't live lovelessly whether you are an individual or a nation..."
- "Your problem is not that you do not believe in love. Your problem is that you do not believe in love only..."
- "Can you imagine Jesus going, 'I have my limits.'? Can you imagine Buddha going, 'I have my limits.'?"
- "Love is only real when it is limitless..."
- "Karma is colletive..."
- "All a nation is, is a collection of individuals..."
- "We grow through the oops..."
- "Every thought creates form on some level..."
- "Look at all the hate vibrations that get put into the world... We are really good at it."
- "Nothing is going to change until we change on the level of cause..."
- "Some people would rather die than change their minds..."
- "If we don't do it, then who do we think is going go do it. So it begins inside us..."
- "At the deepest level, the solution lays beyond the body..."
- "These are not discrete events..."
- "We can support each other in leaning in to the ways of enlightenment..."
- "The Universe keeps a perfect set of books..."
- "A real spiritual seeker is a spiritual grown-up..."
- "Enough with the fake horror..."
- "It's not about that, grow up..."
- "It doesn't matter where you got your character defects, what matters is they are your now..."
- "We place ourselves in service to our country and to our world..."
- "And we know we are joined by millions of other people who feel as we do..."
- "There is no more powerful doing than changing one's mind..."
- "And we glory in this change of mind..."
- "And devoting ourselves to being part of the change..."
- "And knowing countries too can change..."
- "Love, not any other goal, shall be the goal of our lives. And the goal of our nations. And the goal of our species..."
- "The trajectory of history shall change..."
- "And tears shall be no more..."
- "So we present ourselves to you, use us, work through us..."
- "...For the Peace that ends all War."
- "The love that rules all things..."
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Have a great day; Peace is possible!
Thank you,
Gunnar Larson -- Gunnar Donald Arthur Peter Larson xNY.io - Bank.org 646-554-7514
On Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 9:39 AM Gunnar Larson <g@xny.io> wrote:
Dear IAB:
The water in Chelsea, Manhattan been potentially contaminated.
Confusing Injury-In-Fact Rules Hinder Federal Practice <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/2293199?nl_pk=6e763a2a-9f82-44c1-ad37-dbb872fe3785&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=competition&utm_content=2025-02-18&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=16>
A recent Third Circuit decision, contradicting a previous ruling about whether consumers of contaminated products have suffered an injury in fact, illustrates the deep confusion this U.S. Supreme Court standard creates among federal judges and practitioners, who deserve a simpler method of determining which cases have federal standing, says Eric Dwoskin at Dwoskin Wasdin.
Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/2293199?nl_pk=6e763a2a-9f82-44c1-ad37-dbb872fe3785&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=competition&utm_content=2025-02-18&read_more=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=16> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/2293199?nl_pk=6e763a2a-9f82-44c1-ad37-dbb872fe3785&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=competition&utm_content=2025-02-18&read_later=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=16> Does the IAB have any investigation records to this account, concerning contaminated Manhattan water?
Adams Case Careens Toward 'Messy' Hearing, Experts Say <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/2298687?nl_pk=6e763a2a-9f82-44c1-ad37-dbb872fe3785&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=competition&utm_content=2025-02-18&read_main=1&nlsidx=1&nlaidx=0>
By Phillip Bantz
The Manhattan federal judge overseeing the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams is unlikely to rubber stamp a request from the U.S. Department of Justice to toss the case and may instead hold a hearing on the matter, which could get "messy" and "embarrassing," experts say.
Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/2298687?nl_pk=6e763a2a-9f82-44c1-ad37-dbb872fe3785&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=competition&utm_content=2025-02-18&read_more=1&nlsidx=1&nlaidx=0> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/2298687?nl_pk=6e763a2a-9f82-44c1-ad37-dbb872fe3785&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=competition&utm_content=2025-02-18&read_later=1&nlsidx=1&nlaidx=0> No response from IAB on this matter today could lead to xNY.io - Bank.org's FOIL request, seeking information and investigation records on contaminated Manhattan water.
Adams Case Fiasco 'Unparalleled' In Modern US History <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2298456?nl_pk=87c9365b-e736-431a-87d3-d121d8acafcf&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=legalethics&utm_content=2025-02-18&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0>
By Ryan Boysen
The mass resignation of federal prosecutors refusing to obey a Trump administration directive to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams is "unprecedented," "crazy" and "very troubling," according to law professors and former prosecutors.
Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2298456?nl_pk=87c9365b-e736-431a-87d3-d121d8acafcf&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=legalethics&utm_content=2025-02-18&read_more=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2298456?nl_pk=87c9365b-e736-431a-87d3-d121d8acafcf&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=legalethics&utm_content=2025-02-18&read_later=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0>
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Warm regards,
Gunnar Larson
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