Client Alerts

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. 

On December 27, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (“CAA”) was enacted into law.

A number of significant new legal requirements for employee benefit plans were packed into the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “Act”), which passed on December 27, 2020. 

The National Defense Authorization Act of 2021 (the “Defense Authorization Act”), enacted by Congress on January 1, 2021, provides significant changes to U.S. anti-money laundering policies. 

No, a lay member of a Board of Directors does not hold a scalpel, make an incision, diagnose a disease or otherwise render patient care, but even so is it possible for a director or an entire board to be liable for “malpractice” that could subject an institution to claims of that liability?

Your business suffered a loss on a project resulting in damage to your work or the Owner’s property, and you filed a claim with your Commercial General Liability insurance carrier expecting coverage and indemnification. However, if your insurer believes a policy may not provide coverage for a claim, the first response you are likely to receive from your insurer is a reservation of rights letter.

In late January, the market was upended when shares of video game retailer GameStop suddenly climbed from roughly $30 to $347.

As we reach a year of combatting COVID-19, a vaccine has finally emerged, but with that vaccine, come distribution challenges, and, additionally, the virus has mutated and created a new hazard.

A number of significant new legal requirements for employee benefit plans were packed into the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “Act”), which passed on December 27, 2020.

Last week, a three-judge panel of the Court of International Trade unanimously rejected the authority of former President Trump to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. 

On January 29, 2021, OSHA issued “Guidance on Mitigating and Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in the Workplace.”

While the new Biden administration is working on a long-term prosecutorial policy, as of January 29th, federal prosecutors should focus on an “individualized assessment” of relevant facts.