JP Morgan Chase & Co. just launched a software program, Contract Intelligence (COIN), that uses machine learning to review and evaluate commercial loan agreements. Previously, lawyers and financial loan officers performed these contract reviews. With the onset of COIN, however, documents are reviewed in seconds, eliminating an estimated 360,000 hours of work per year. Talk […]
This post is authored by KCIC Database Administrator, Christopher Young. In our work, we encourage our clients to review their internal process and look for ways to be more efficient and effective. Likewise, with our own company, we are always seeking out ways to work smarter — that includes finding tools and solutions to improve […]
“Thank you for taking the time to share the wonderful changes to our website. This will be very beneficial as we continue to utilize the policies.” That’s what one client took the time to tell us recently, after we upgraded them to The Ligado Platform’s enhanced Policy Management module. We launched the upgrade late last […]
KCIC was privileged, over the summer, to win the business of a major asbestos defendant — one that had had a long-standing relationship with one of our competitors. During their quarterly call with their defense counsel network last week, the managing counsel, responsible for the defense network, likened the sophistication of KCIC’s Ligado Platform to “going […]
Like many of you, KCIC will be bound for Las Vegas next week, for DRI’s 2015 Asbestos Medicine Seminar. We always look forward to the annual meeting — a chance to visit with our clients and their counsel while attending informative and engaging sessions around issues affecting asbestos litigation defense. KCIC will be sponsoring the […]
In a previous post, we looked at cyber and data breach coverage issues in the context of traditional policies. But what if your current Commercial General Liability (CGL) policy has been found in litigation to provide no coverage or now contains an exclusion for certain, or all, cyber-related liabilities? You may need a separate cyber-only […]
Cyber risk is a hot and evolving topic in risk management. With available coverage products and the law still emerging, policyholders need to be vigilant to ensure they’re adequately protected. KCIC recently discussed this expansive topic with individuals offering two different perspectives: Lon Berk, Partner at Hunton & Williams, and Laura Foggan, Partner at Wiley Rein, […]
Did you, like me, grow up in a time when you needed to know DOS commands to make your computer run? (Or perhaps earlier?) Growing up, I thought computers were interesting, but I definitely didn’t understand how they worked and never thought I would use them for a career, beyond basic word processing. Entering college, […]
KCIC was proud to sponsor and attend the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel (ACCEC) last month. The members of this prestigious organization are a veritable who’s who of insurance coverage on both sides of the bar. The day-and-a-half-long meeting included substantive panels on a variety of topics in […]
KCIC is pleased to present this guest post by David Katzenstein, Member at Eckert Seamans national law firm. We have many means for organizing the huge amount of data in our lives and work. Some of us file email in folders. Others apply tags to help search the organized materials. Others are masters of spreadsheets. Looking […]
