Client Alerts

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.

We were taught to keep hold of our tongues.

Here we go again.  Again.

Pursuant to a February 25, 2021 press release issued by the office of Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), U.S. Senate Democratic Whip and Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Durbin and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced a bipartisan bill cited as the “COVID-19 Bankruptcy Relief Extension Act.”

For years, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) has the authority to exclude providers from participation in Federal healthcare program under Section 1128 of the Social Security Act.

As summarized in this E-News Alert, new DOL guidance, in essence, says that the delay of certain employee benefit deadlines due to COVID-19 is to be determined on an individual-by-individual basis – rather than a one-size-fits-all delay.

To say the least, electric vehicles (EVs) are a hot topic.  The Biden administration has made no secret of its commitment to drive toward electrification and away from the internal combustion engine.  So, too, the OEMs.