The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 20 - Pitfalls and Perils: Employee Retention Credit Enforcement Trends
Breaking Down Bad Faith: Insurers’ Good Faith Duties and Defending Bad Faith Claims
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Advancing Agriculture: Security Interests and Article 9 Challenges (Part 2)
New Developments in the World of Section 230
On-Demand Webinar | Employment Issues With a COVID-19 Vaccine
Is the Aseracare precedent in jeopardy? Courts Questioning Clinical Judgment Standards
Is the Aseracare Precedent in Jeopardy? Courts Questioning Clinical Judgment Standards
Relaxed HIPAA Restrictions For Providers Using Telehealth
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 70: Tackling a California Bar Exam Essay: Criminal Law and Procedure
IAPP Global Privacy Summit Recap, Big Questions, and Indiana Jones Analogies
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Corporate officers owe the same fiduciary duty of oversight as directors. Just as with directors, officers fulfill their oversight duty by acting in good faith....more
You’ll find some notable decisions in our May Insurance Update. Appeals over pandemic-related business interruption losses have made their way up to state high courts. And so far, these courts have continued the trend...more
FCA makes clear that it expects a cultural shift in how firms focus on consumers. On 7 December 2021, the FCA published its second Consultation Paper (CP21/36) on introducing a new Consumer Duty....more
Investors filed a derivative suit claiming that the company knew about, and failed to mitigate known, existing cybersecurity risks and shortfalls prior to the security breach. In early November, pension funds and...more
The FCA first published a discussion paper on a duty of care in July 2018 – nearly two years on it is now consulting on introducing a new Consumer Duty. There is now to be a clear timeline for the introduction of the changes,...more
California State Court Upholds Exclusive Federal Forum-Selection Charter Provision for 1933 Act Suits; California District Court Dismisses Fraud-Related Claims Against AT&T; Third Circuit Holds Challenge to SEC’s Decision to...more
Arizona has finally resolved the issue of whether managers and members of an Arizona Limited Liability Company (LLC) owe a common law fiduciary duty to the LLC and whether an operating agreement can lawfully limit those...more
On June 18, 2019, in a decision authored by Chief Justice Leo E. Strine Jr., the Delaware Supreme Court en banc reversed the dismissal of a stockholder derivative suit against the directors and officers of Blue Bell...more
On June 18, 2019, in Marchand v. Barnhill, the Delaware Supreme Court, in an opinion written by Chief Justice Leo E. Strine, Jr. on behalf of a unanimous court, issued a decision reversing the Court of Chancery’s dismissal of...more
Applying Delaware law, a South Carolina District Court found Plaintiff had properly pled its causes of action for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence/gross negligence and negligent misrepresentation...more
NRS 78.138(1) imposes two explicit duties on directors in the exercise of their powers: they must act in good faith and with a view to the interests of the corporation. This contrasts with Delaware case law which speaks of a...more
When an insurer issues a policy, it assumes a duty not only to investigate and pay claims, but to do so in good faith. There is, however, a difference between that duty and the duty of due care that arises under tort law. ...more