TITLE

Securities reform act--panacea or a problem?

AUTHOR(S)
LaCroix, Kevin M.
PUB. DATE
March 1996
SOURCE
Best's Review / Property-Casualty Insurance Edition;Mar1996, Vol. 96 Issue 11, p76
SOURCE TYPE
Trade Publication
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Discusses the implications of the passage of the 1995 Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Efforts to eliminate perceived abuses in the securities litigation class-action process; Creation of a statutory safe harbors for certain kinds of forward looking statements; Value of the act's protection for companies.
ACCESSION #
9603111276

Tags: CORPORATION law

 

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