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Just when you thought that you were getting comfortable with email records and e-discovery concerns… Until it happens to you or a colleague, most people pay little attention to the risks of conducting important business or personal transactions using simple email only to have its content or delivery challenged after-the-fact. Since RPost is in the business of offering the Registered Email™ service that at its core provides the s [...]

Vertafore and RPost built compatibility into their services with guidance from Renaissance Group, a customer of both platforms.  RPost’s Registered Email™ and email encryption services now seamlessly distribute correspondence records into Vertafore’s AMS 360 client records repositories. Specifically, RPost and Vertafore have released free software upgrades that automatically parse Re [...]

The following article, “Email Carries the Power of Paper” is useful to demonstrate that text typed in email may carry the same weight as text memorialized in paper documents. However, one should consider that if one is to rely on email records, they should ensure that the integrity of the content of those records and the time of delivery cannot be successfully challenged. To shirk responsibility, it is all too easy to deny receipt or challenge the validi [...]

The following best practices guide prepared by Wolters Kluwer presents a useful map of items to consider when deploying an electronic signature initiative. The RPost services that map to the processes noted in the white paper are: Best Practices to Use Electronic Signatures Register Reply Service: used to record consent by both parties to specifics about the selected [...]

Electronic Signatures Documents have the Same Legal Strength of Wet Ink Signatures. E-business transactions – Did you know that if executed properly from beginning to end they can reduce all types of risk and make e-contracts more enforceable than paper processes. However, simply complying with the ten-year old ESIGN Act that affords electronically-signed documents the same legal strength of wet [...]