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- Enforcement News: SEC Charges Investment Advisory Firm with Making Material Misstatements and Omissions in Connection with Its Automated Tax Loss Harvesting Service
An investment adviser may, for example, replace a security with an unrealized loss with another security Since 2014, Betterment has offered its tax-loss harvesting service (“TLH”) to clients that have taxable whereby individual positions in client taxable accounts are scanned to identify unrealized investment losses If, after meeting certain conditions, an ETF is identified where a client has an unrealized loss that Consequently, noted the SEC, Betterment did not scan these accounts or harvest any tax losses until the
- The Privity or Near-Privity Doctrine: First Department Affirms Denial of Motion to Dismiss Fraud Claim Involving Artwork
There are two components of causation: transaction causation and loss causation. caused the loss about which plaintiff complains (loss causation).” Stonepath Grp., Inc. , 343 F.3d 189, 196-97 (2d Cir.2003) (loss causation in common law fraud claims Co. , 206 F.3d at 209 (“Loss causation is causation in the traditional ‘proximate cause’ sense—the allegedly Thus, loss causation is “the causal link between the alleged misconduct and the economic harm ultimately
- Second Department Addresses Proximate Cause Element of Fraud Claim, Finding Issues of Fact Sufficient to Deny Summary Judgment Motion
It is well settled that loss causation or proximate causation is “ n essential element” of a fraud claim ) and that the misrepresentations directly caused the loss about which plaintiff complains (loss causation Takeaway Loss causation is a well-established requirement of a common-law fraud claim for damages. Since the determination of loss causation turns upon questions of foreseeability and “what is foreseeable In Designer Limousine , the Second Department held that proximate causation should be left for the jury
- First Department Declines to Dismiss Fraudulent Inducement Claim as Duplicative of Contract Claim Based on Expert Analysis
The First Department held that justifiable reliance and loss causation are required elements of a fraudulent causation. Second, the Court declined to eliminate the loss causation element of a fraudulent inducement claim. The Court noted that loss causation is a “well-established requirement of a common law fraudulent inducement In holding that loss causation remained a required element of a fraudulent inducement claim, the Court
- So Many Fraud Issues. So Little Space to Write About Them
Causation and Damages The causation element has two components: transaction causation and loss causation caused the loss about which plaintiff complains (loss causation).” Loss Causation The loss causation requirement is synonymous with the proximate cause concept found in Thus, loss causation is “the causal link between the alleged misconduct and the economic harm ultimately Whether the plaintiff satisfies the loss causation element requires a fact intensive analysis, making
- The Economic Loss Doctrine and the Split of Authority Within the Southern District of New York
App’x 857 (2d Cir. 2018) (summary order) (dismissing tort claims as barred by the economic loss doctrine extra-contractual legal duties is independently sufficient to foreclose application of the economic loss Under the economic loss doctrine, “ plaintiff cannot seek damages by bringing a tort claim when the District of New York that found the economic loss doctrine to apply to tort claims asserted against However, the Court dismissed the claim “because of the economic loss doctrine.” Id .
- For Want of a Postage Stamp, the Foreclosure Action Was Lost
“For want of a postage stamp, the foreclosure action was lost” after ten years of litigation.
- Update: First Department Affirms the Denial of Summary Judgment in Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v. Tilton
Plaintiffs sold their Notes for a loss of approximately $45 million in April 2012, before the maturity justifiably rely on any alleged misrepresentation by Defendants; and 3) Plaintiffs could not prove loss causation. to Defendants, Plaintiffs conceded during discovery that there was an independent reason for their losses Weber’s testimony might be fodder for cross-examination, it is insufficient to establish a loss causation
- Lost Profits and Promises of Future Performance
Typically, these provisions include a limitation on the recovery of lost profits. . 1 These provisions “represent[] the parties’ Agreement on the allocation of the risk of economic loss profits: (1) lost profits that are general damages; and (2) lost profits that are consequential or special only what it bargained for—the amount it would have profited on the payments promised to make.” 7 Lost within the contemplation of the parties to the contract at the time it was made” and that the alleged loss
- Appellate Division, Second Department, Holds that an Insurer Cannot Retroactively Reform Insurance Policy After Loss
insurer may not retroactively reform a policy to reduce the stated bodily injury coverage limits after a loss
- New York Court of Appeals Holds That The Doctrine of Successor Jurisdiction Applies In a Transaction That Is Less Than a Merger
Injured parties would be left to directly sue the successor in a forum that may well be less favorable
- Insurance Carrier Not Required to Indemnify Insured for Claimed Business Income Losses Says the Second Department
The expectation is that one’s insurance policy will cover enough risks to protect against financial loss education and empowerment” ( here ), “ nsurance policies are used to hedge against the risk of financial losses contract action, finding that the insurer properly declined to indemnify the insured for the claimed loss As noted, the dispute concerned the coverage of losses caused by Hurricane Sandy. necessary suspension of operations caused by direct physical loss or damage by a Covered Cause of Loss
