The France government has acknowledged the importance of digital signature technology and is the first in Europe to establish a new law that explicitly accepts handwritten digital signatures as equivalent to wet signatures on paper. To promote that, an electronic legal document was signed on a Wacom tablet by Rachida Dati, Keeper of the Seals, [...]

2008 Case Law Review from Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP’s
Courts across the country (federal and state) continue to address the effectiveness of delivering documents exclusively through electronic means as well as the enforceability of electronic signatures in a variety of settings. The courts have addressed the enforceability of electronic signatures applied by insurance agents [...]