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Exploring the Legal, Insurance Complexities of Legalized Marijuana

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Members Chase Stoecker (Fort Lauderdale) and Lauren Ybarra (Dallas) co-presented “It’s Not Easy Being Green: Cannabis Claims in a Budding Industry” on February 28, 2024, during the ALM PropertyCasualty360 Complex Claims & Litigation Forum in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their session was covered by Property Casualty 360 in “Exploring the Legal, Insurance Complexities of Legalized Marijuana.” The article recaps the highlights of the session and expands upon the discussion.

“It’s not just the dispensaries or farms that we’re talking about,” said panel moderator Chase Stoecker, who represents cannabis and cannabis-related clients as a partner for the New Orleans-based law firm McGlinchey Stafford. “There’s also processing, testing labs, trucking, lending and all the other ancillary businesses.”

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Presentation

What’s Insurance? Insurance for Non-Insurance Lawyers

May 7, 2024

Member JP Perrault (Baton Rouge) will present "What's Insurance? Insurance for Non-Insurance Lawyers," at the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association Legal Forum on May 7, 2024, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Event

McGlinchey Hosts First Insurance Symposium with InsurTech ATX

April 16, 2024

McGlinchey was proud to partner with InsureTechATX to offer intensive learning and actionable insight on the latest developments in InsurTech and insurance compliance and regulation during our first Insurance Symposium on April 16, 2024, in Austin, Texas.

News Release

Chase Stoecker Honored at Florida Legal Awards

April 3, 2024

McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce that Member Charles “Chase” Stoecker (Fort Lauderdale) will be honored at the ALM/Daily Business Review’s Florida Legal Awards with the On the Rise (Small/Midsize Firm) award. Honorees will be recognized at an awards dinner on April 4, 2024. “Congratulations to Chase on this well-deserved recognition,” said Kerry Ann Cummings,More

Presentation

FORC Insurance Seminar

March 17, 2024

Members of McGlinchey’s Corporate/Real Estate team will participate in multiple sessions during the upcoming Federation of Regulatory Counsel (FORC) Insurance Seminar in Phoenix, Arizona.

News Release

Former Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon Joins McGlinchey

March 13, 2024

McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce that former Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Louisiana and attorney Jim Donelon has joined the firm as a Member. While his insurance regulatory practice is national in scope, he will primarily work from the Baton Rouge and New Orleans offices.

Published Article

Will 2024 Be the Year AI Breaches the Insurance Market?

February 2, 2024

As we have seen the rise of broader use of artificial intelligence (AI) with the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 and the use of other platforms to create images, text, and even legal precedence that does not exist, it raises the question, how will the insurance market respond to the use of AI?

In the Media

Karma Koala Podcast with McGlinchey’s Chase Stoecker

January 24, 2024

On January 20, 2024, Member Chase Stoecker (Fort Lauderdale) joined Sean Hocking, editor at the Cannabis Law Report, for an episode of the “Karma Koala” podcast, a weekly podcast about all things law, business, and culture in cannabis, to discuss the legal complexities of cannabis in the workplace. Chase explored the confusion faced by employers and employees alike, givenMore

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Crain’s Cannabis Summit Breakout Session

January 25, 2024

Ohio is an emerging market for the cannabis industry. From banking to finance to the legal and real estate sector, what opportunities will the business of cannabis present for all industries in the state? Justice Brandeis wrote in his dissent in the 1932 case of New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann that a “state may, ifMore