Client Alerts

For many years, group health plans have been subject to strict privacy and security requirements, but up to now, privacy and security for retirement plans has been left to the vagaries of the plan service providers and their auditing systems.

Ford Motor Company issued new Terms of Purchase, that become effective on July 1, 2021 for all Purchase Orders issued on or after that date.  This is the first extensive change in Ford’s Terms since 2004.  Butzel Long has prepared an analysis of the changes in the new Terms, which is linked at the end of this Alert.

Metal-finishers typically plate or coat a customer’s metal parts with a finish, (e.g., nickel) for a per unit fee. 

A recent opinion of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan provided a reminder of the limits of preemption under the Michigan Uniform Trade Secret Act (“MUTSA”).

On April 5, 2021, Mexico’s Secretary of Labor published a press release announcing it had reached an agreement with the business sector, employees’ unions, and the members of Mexican congress relating to outsourcing changes to Mexico’s Federal Labor Law.

Is it possible that you own trade secrets, without even knowing it? 

In its recent decision in Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the question of when a party’s activities in a state will allow it to be sued in that state or, in legalese, when do a state’s courts have in personam personal jurisdiction over a corporation. 

On February 25, 2021, the Michigan Court of Appeals held in Young v VanderMeer[i] that a majority or equal shareholder has standing to pursue shareholder oppression claims under MCL 450.1489 so long as the defendant was in control of the company at the time oppression occurred.

On Saturday, March 27, 2021, President Biden signed into law the Covid-19 Bankruptcy Relief Extension Act Relief Extension Act (the “Act”).

As COVID-19 cases in Michigan are on the rise, employers face questions about when employees need to quarantine or isolate and for how long.

As we previously reported in our “End of LIBOR – Part 1”, for several years US banking regulators have been preparing for the replacement of LIBOR as a lending index rate.

Last week, Congress passed a massive $1.9 trillion piece of legislation called the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the “Act”). 

On March 11, 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act (“Rescue Plan”) was signed into law.

As a result of new changes in the law, employers sponsoring group health plans may need to act quickly to make plan design decisions and to meet new notice requirements, as explained below. 

By now, we’ve all heard of cryptocurrency, especially Bitcoin, when it hit the scene in 2009 with the goal to decentralize the finance system.

Despite many industries suffering setbacks over the past year due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, federal contract spending has grown year over year since 2016, including this past year, and appears to have no end in sight.

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) was initially set to expire on December 31, 2020.

Covid-19 has had a major influence on workers compensation insurance. 

Toyota Motors North America has issued new Terms of Purchase, which will become effective on October 1, 2021 for all goods sold on or after that date.

Non Practicing Entities (“NPEs”) are not new in the world of patent infringement litigation, but a recent holding shows just how far an NPE can go, and how much the NPE can ‘win’, when asserting patent infringement claims for the patents it owns.