Fiduciary Duty, Pending Legislation

Broad Consumer Privacy Bill Introduced In New York State Senate

King & Spalding on 5/31/2019

New York’s State Senate is considering a bill that would impose sweeping new requirements upon companies that collect and process consumer data, including a fiduciary-like duty to protect such data. On May 9, 2019, New York...more

California Advances PBM Licensing and “Transparency” Law

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 4/26/2017

Last week, the California Assembly Committee on Business and Professions voted in favor of Assembly Bill 315. AB 315 seeks to amend the California Business and Professions Code: (a) to require PBMs to obtain licensure from...more

Want To File A Derivative Suit? You May Soon Be Required To Read Statutes

Allen Matkins on 3/24/2017

I have been writing recently about SB 203, a bill that is now pending in the Nevada legislature. As introduced, the bill would, among other things, require the following...more

Digital assets…Coming soon to a state near you!

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 5/9/2016

In the hours leading up to the legislature’s constitutional adjournment deadline of midnight on May 4, the Connecticut State Senate passed House Bill 5606, the “Connecticut Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets...more

The Fight against a new Fiduciary Rule continues

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C. on 2/11/2016

It should come as no surprise that the Senate and the House of Representatives are trying to do their best to make sure that the Department of Labor (DOL) is thwarted with implementing a fiduciary rule for retirement plan and...more

Perspectives - September/October 2015

Benesch on 10/5/2015

In a decision in which no opinion commanded a majority, the Ohio Supreme Court sided with a private entity — a charter school operator — in a dispute over the ownership of personal property purchased by the operator with...more