Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: A Close Look at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Final Credit Card Late Fee Rule: Have Cardholders Been Dealt a Winning or Losing Hand?
Time to Amend the Defend Trade Secrets Act
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: A Close Look at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Credit Card Late Fees Proposal with Special Guest Todd J. Zywicki
Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - SCOTUS Issues First IP Ruling of 2022 in Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Maurits, LP
The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: SCOTUS Issues First IP Ruling of 2022 in Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Maurits, LP
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - DMCA Takedowns – Benefits to Content Owner
Podcast: CMS and OIG Final Rules for Innovating Your Value-Based Payment Program - Diagnosing Health Care
Challenges for Infrastructure Projects in the Current Environment
No Harbor is Limitless: Restrictions of the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute's Safe Harbor Provisions
The SECURE Act: Significant Changes for Retirement Plans and IRAs
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - New Hardship Distribution Regulations for 401(k) Plans
Overview For Employers: More State Pay Equity Laws Coming Online
PODCAST: Recruiting and Retention: Can Your 401K Make a Difference?
Jones Day Talks Health Care: The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act
Jones Day Talks: Navigating Foreign Direct Investment in Germany
Podcast: Tax Reform and Its Impact on Exempt Organizations, One Year In
Polsinelli Podcasts - FDA Denies Amgen Citizen Petition in Biosimilar Dispute
Bill on Bankruptcy: Easterbrook Turns the Tide on Student Loans
Bill on Bankruptcy: AMR Make-Whole Opinion Vulnerable on Appeal
Bill on Bankruptcy: Fee Agreement Puts Law Firm In Trustee's Sights
Are there differences in the way in which derivatives and insurance contracts are regulated? Yes. Weather derivatives and insurance contracts are subject to totally different regulatory regimes. Derivatives are subject to the...more
Proponents of marijuana reform have had cause for celebration in 2023. Despite challenges facing the industry, the political and social momentum surrounding cannabis is ticking upward. Most recently, the marijuana industry...more
On June 5-6, 2023, the NAIC Privacy Protections (H) Working Group (“PPWG”) held an in-person interim meeting (“session”) to continue its work on drafting a new model privacy law, the Insurance Consumer Privacy Protection...more
A wide range of tort reform laws (HB 837) were recently approved by the Florida House and went into effect on March 24. HB 837 is intended to help protect businesses and insurers from excessive litigation in Florida and is...more
Last month, we provided an overview of Florida Tort Reform HB 837 - a wide-ranging tort reform bill ratified on March 24, 2023. With the stated goal of stabilizing the state’s insurance market, the bill’s sweeping provisions...more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of February 13, 2023 – February 17, 2023. ...more
This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to a claimant’s second chance when a lawyer misses a court deadline, whether certain voluntary benefits fall within a broader ERISA plan, a court deciding that an insurer was...more
On April 19, 2022, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued Circular Letter No. 5, reminding owners and potential purchasers of shares of insurance companies that acquiring less than 10% of the company’s...more
On March 18, US Senators Robert Menendez, D-NJ, Rand Paul, R-KY, and Jeffrey Merkley, R-KY, introduced legislation meant to encourage insurer penetration in the cannabis industry. Under the Clarifying Law Around Insurance of...more
A recent challenge to the constitutionality of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Order 202.28 in Elmsford Apartment Associates, LLC et al. v. Andrew Cuomo (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Case No....more
Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to send you its sixth annual REDIAL: 2019 TCPA YEAR-IN-REVIEW – ANALYSIS OF CRITICAL ISSUES AND TRENDS IN TCPA COMPLIANCE AND LITIGATION. Inside this digital edition, you will find our in-depth...more
The introduction to my last two posts, SECURE Act Part 1 and SECURE Act Part 2, explained: There are two parts of the SECURE Act that I believe will have the greatest impact on my clients: plan sponsors and plan service...more
Kentucky House Bill 386 is the first comprehensive framework for an insurance regulatory “sandbox” in the nation. It allows companies, even those without an insurance license, to market their inventions in a tailored...more
The ramp-up of cybersecurity regulation, albeit in a patchwork fashion through state-level legislation, has begun. On May 18, 2018, South Carolina enacted the Insurance Data Security Act (Act), becoming the first state to...more
Trends Against BITS and Investor State Dispute Resolution - In my first Expect Focus International article (http://bit.ly/2G9Demu), I suggested that investors doing business outside the United States should do so in...more
Foreclosure: debtor that agreed to “surrender” property in bankruptcy was required to surrender the property to the bankruptcy trustee and secured creditor, and lost right to defend secured creditor’s foreclosure action...more
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced it will continue to address disparate impact liability for discriminatory insurance practices on a case-by-case basis. HUD addressed concerns from the...more
On 17 March, the European Commission published the preliminary findings of its review of the Insurance Block Exemption Regulation (“IBER”). The IBER provides a safe harbour from the EU law prohibition of anticompetitive...more
October ordinarily brings the return of crisp air, fall foliage and Halloween. This year, for the first time, it also brought National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Yet designating a month to increase cybersecurity awareness...more
The shockwaves continue from the October 6, 2015 ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the European Union’s highest court, invalidating the U.S.-EU “Safe Harbor” data transfer regime in a controversy...more
Every tax season, the Internal Revenue Service releases a “Dirty Dozen” list of schemes that it considers abusive and widespread enough to present a systemic threat to its enforcement of the tax laws. This year’s list...more