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Southfield Attorney Paul R. Hage Named a Fellow at American College of Bankruptcy
Courtesy of Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss
Courtesy of Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss

American College of Bankruptcy, an honorary association of bankruptcy and insolvency professionals, has invited Paul R. Hage, partner at Southfield’s Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, to become a fellow in its 34th class.

“Paul’s extensive expertise in bankruptcy and insolvency law and his dedication to the profession and the community make him the ideal candidate for this honor,” says Mark Cooper, CEO of Jaffe. “Paul has been a member of the Jaffe team for more than 15 years and we are honored to be able to celebrate this outstanding, career achievement with him.”

Fellows are invited to join the college based on their proven records of the highest standards of professionalism and service to bankruptcy practice, the profession, and their communities. Inductees exhibit leadership, integrity, and scholarship and have a minimum of 15 years of practice, 10 of which must involve specialization in bankruptcy and insolvency.

Hage leads Jaffe’s insolvency and reorganization practice group and is also a member of the firm’s diversity, equity, and inclusion committee. He represents debtors, creditors’ committees, secured and unsecured creditors, asset purchasers and trustees in bankruptcy proceedings nationwide.

Hage will be inducted as a fellow of

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January 26, 2023 by ATTORNEY

Alex Jones attorney suspended from practicing law in Connecticut

A lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been suspended from practicing law in Connecticut for six months for improperly giving other Jones’ attorneys in Texas confidential documents, including the medical records of relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

The ruling by Judge Barbara Bellis on Thursday afternoon came in the families’ lawsuit against Jones for repeatedly calling the shooting a hoax on his Infowars show, which resulted in Jones being ordered to pay more than $1.4 billion in damages after a jury trial in Connecticut last year.

Bellis said New Haven-based lawyer Norm Pattis failed to safeguard the families’ sensitive records in violation of her order that limited access to the documents to attorneys in the Connecticut case. She called his actions an “abject failure” and “inexcusable.”

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“We cannot expect our system of justice or our attorneys to be perfect, but we can expect fundamental fairness and decency,” the judge wrote. “There was no fairness or decency in the treatment of the plaintiffs’ most sensitive and personal information, and no excuse for the respondent’s (Pattis’) misconduct.”

Pattis said Friday in a text message that he

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January 9, 2023 by ATTORNEY

Flood insurance hikes will drive 1 million people from market, FEMA report says | Business News

ST. LOUIS — When questioned by members of Congress, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said its new update to the nation’s flood insurance program will prompt more people to sign up for coverage, even though many will pay more for it.

But in a FEMA report obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act, the agency estimates 1 million fewer Americans will buy flood insurance by the end of the decade — a sizable number of people at risk of catastrophic financial loss.

As climate change drives increased flood risk in many parts of the country, FEMA has updated its flood insurance program to more accurately reflect risk, but also make the program more solvent. It’s a response in part to criticism that taxpayers were funding big payouts when coastal mansions in risky locations flooded.

But nine senators from both parties expressed “serious concerns” about the new pricing system in a letter last September, after hearing that the agency’s internal numbers predicted policies would drop off by 20%. The next month FEMA told the AP those figures were “misleading” and “taken out of context” and that on the subject of how many people will be insured “there

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August 3, 2022 by INSURANCE

WEA Trust, Health Tradition Health Plan leaving Wisconsin’s insurance market by end of 2022

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MADISON, Wis. — WEA Trust and the Health Tradition Health Plan are getting out of Wisconsin’s health insurance market by the end of the year.

trust-and-health-tradition-health-plan-to-exit-wisconsin-health-insurance-market”In a news release Wednesday, the groups said existing plan members will be covered until they choose new coverage or until December 31, whichever is earlier. WEA Trust will continue members’ long term care, life and vision coverage.

“The challenges related to healthcare consolidation, the costs associated with the global pandemic, and the drop in the stock market have made it difficult for local, not-for-profit organizations like ours who seek to provide families with high value personal care,” Vaughn Vance, the groups’ president and CEO, said in the release. “It became clear that we had to make the difficult decision to pivot as an organization before we sacrificed what has made WEA Trust unique for many years.”

Employees will be let go in a phased approach, with each receiving a severance package and at least 60 days of notice. According to a notice filed Wednesday with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, 110 employees will be laid off on August 1

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June 3, 2022 by INSURANCE
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