Sunday, January 10, 2010 Chinese officials have said that their country’s exports surged last December to edge out Germany as the world’s biggest exporter. The official Xinhua news agency reported today that figures from the General Administration for Customs showed that exports jumped 17.7% in December from a year earlier. Over the whole of 2009 total Chinese exports reached US$1.2 trillion, above Germany’s forecast $1.17 trillion. Huang Guohua, a statistics official with the customs administration, said the December exports rebound was an important turning point for China’s export sector. He…
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Why Insurance Claims Are Not Paid
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Dispute Resolution Gold Coast By Frank Egan – LAC Lawyers Normally there are a number of reasons why insurers fail to pay or deny insurance claims. The principal ones are: 1. Non Disclosure of material fact; 2. Failure to abide by the doctrine of the utmost good faith; 3. Fraud and/or overcapitalisation of loss but the latter only applies to deny that part of the claim; [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u9JAt6gFqM[/youtube] 4. Arson as a subset of fraud; 5. An inability of the insured to provide any…
Blizzard Entertainment’s victory over bnetd sealed in Appeals Court
Saturday, September 3, 2005 Blizzard Entertainment has won a federal ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals against the programmers of bnetd, a software package that emulates Blizzard’s Battle.net service. The court reaffirmed the original judgement, given in October, that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and click-through EULA’s prohibited the reverse engineering of Blizzard’s software in order to improve their playability. This was the first real test of the DMCA’s applicability. Bnetd, released under the GNU General Public License, was created to enable users to play multiplayer games, bypassing Blizzard’s…