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The Unrelenting 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Finally Ends

Nov 30, 2024 | michaelrlowry.substack.com | Michael Lowry

The hyperactive 2024 Atlantic hurricane season comes to a close today, a season that leapt to one of the busiest starts on record, including Hurricane Beryl, the earliest known Category 5 hurricane, before trailing off into the traditional early September peak, but reawakening for an explosive back third that included Category 4 Hurricane Helene – the deadliest storm to affect the mainland U.S. since Katrina in 2005 – and Category 5 Milton, the most intense Gulf of Mexico hurricane in nearly...
Oregon Supreme Court Decides Dram Shop Statute Is Partially Constitutional

Nov 20, 2024 | mondaq.com | Michael Lowry

Statutory protections for dram shop liability are important in evaluating potential exposure and rating possible premiums. Oregon's Supreme Court has concluded that one of those statutory protections is constitutional in one fact pattern but unconstitutional in another. This ruling may affect potential exposure and how prospective claimants plead their causes of action. In Bonner v. American Golf Corp.
Oregon Supreme Court Decides Dram Shop Statute Is Partially Constitutional

Nov 20, 2024 | natlawreview.com | Michael Lowry

Statutory protections for dram shop liability are important in evaluating potential exposure and rating possible premiums. Oregon’s Supreme Court has concluded that one of those statutory protections is constitutional in one fact pattern but unconstitutional in another. This ruling may affect potential exposure and how prospective claimants plead their causes of action. In Bonner v. American Golf Corp.
Sara Raining Out over Central America while the Destructive U.S. Hurricane Season Draws to a Close

Nov 15, 2024 | michaelrlowry.substack.com | Michael Lowry

Author’s Note: This will be the last routine issuance of the daily Eye on the Tropics newsletter for the 2024 hurricane season. My sincerest gratitude to all our regular readers and new subscribers. I strive for this newsletter to be a reliable and trusted source of no-hype information and context throughout the hurricane season, and I value your readership and support. We’ll resume the daily tropical newsletter in June 2025.
Tropical Depression Forms, Forecast to Bring Catastrophic Flood Threat to Northern Honduras

Nov 14, 2024 | michaelrlowry.substack.com | Michael Lowry

The disturbance we’ve been tracking through the Caribbean this week was upgraded to Tropical Depression Nineteen Thursday morning off the coast of northern Honduras. The system is forecast to become Tropical Storm Sara later today. Soon-to-be Sara is expected to stall or meander slowly westward along the coast of Honduras from today through Sunday, which could bring a prolonged and extreme flood threat to the country’s expansive north coast.
Odds of Late Season Tropical Threat Growing

Nov 12, 2024 | michaelrlowry.substack.com | Michael Lowry

A significant late-season tropical system is poised to come together later this week and could strengthen into a formidable November hurricane by this weekend or early next week as it meanders in the western Caribbean. Interests from Jamaica and Haiti in the east to Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize, and the Yucatán Peninsula in the west will need to monitor the growing threat, especially by late week into the weekend.
Nevada Supreme Court Creates Comp Lien Chaos

Nov 8, 2024 | mondaq.com | Michael Lowry

Nevada's Supreme Court has overruled 38 years of precedent concerning how workers' compensation liens are resolved in personal injury claims. In 1986, the Supreme Court created a formula allowing the parties and carriers to calculate with reasonable certainty how much of a workers' compensation lien would be paid after a personal injury recovery. It was known as the Breen formula. It is no longer valid. In AmTrust North America, Inc. v.
Rafael Briefly Reintensifies to a Major Hurricane Over the Gulf but No Direct Threat to Land

Nov 8, 2024 | michaelrlowry.substack.com | Michael Lowry

Rafael restrengthened overnight to a major Category 3 hurricane over the central Gulf of Mexico, becoming the farthest west a Category 3 or stronger hurricane has been observed during the month of November. The unusually strong late-season hurricane is only the 8th major hurricane to form anywhere in the Atlantic basin during the month of November in the satellite era (since 1966) and only the 2nd major November hurricane ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico.
Nevada Supreme Court Overrules Workers' Comp Lien Formula

Nov 7, 2024 | natlawreview.com | Michael Lowry

Nevada’s Supreme Court has overruled 38 years of precedent concerning how workers’ compensation liens are resolved in personal injury claims. In 1986, the Supreme Court created a formula allowing the parties and carriers to calculate with reasonable certainty how much of a workers’ compensation lien would be paid after a personal injury recovery. It was known as the Breen formula. It is no longer valid. In AmTrust North America, Inc. v.
Rafael enters the Gulf after striking Cuba as a major Category 3 hurricane

Nov 7, 2024 | local10.com | Michael Lowry

Rafael strengthened into a major Category 3 hurricane with 115 mph winds shortly before striking the southern coast of western Cuba at 4:15 PM ET Wednesday near Playa Majana in Artemisa Province. Leer en españolThe hurricane passed to within about 40 miles of Havana shortly before sunset Wednesday, bringing winds gusts as high as 93 mph along Havana Harbor.