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Entering the Era of Operational Resilience

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/12/19

Compliance and risk management professionals take naturally to acronyms and terms of art that help us understand what we do, so let me introduce one that’s likely to become more important in years to come. Operational resilience....

How many third party behavioral advertising cookies deploy on most websites?

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/12/19

In order to help companies understand and benchmark industry practice, BCLP analyzed a random sample of the homepages of the Fortune 500 to better understand their use of cookies, cookie notices, and cookie banners. As of December 14, 2019, 88% of...

Lawyer who successfully sued Roundup is accused of trying to extort $200M from unnamed company

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/12/19

Implementation Of U.S. NBFDS To Begin In January 2020

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/12/19

The implementation date of the United States (U.S.) National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (NBFDS) is January 1, 2020. Adopted in February 2019 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Services (AMS), the NBFDS...

This Week In Employment Law: Island Of The Misfits

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/12/19

2019 ends with a bang. Even apart from that big political event that begins with the "I" word, and those two major holidays that are imminent, there have been some very weird employment-related news items this week. Have you been paying attention?...

Hospital Data Breaches and Patient Deaths

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/12/19

Researchers for the journal Health Services Research recently undertook to determine whether there is a relationship between remediation efforts for hospital data breaches, and quality of hospital care. ...

Insurance Agent Negligence and the New Michigan Auto Insurance Law

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/12/19

Now is not the time to be placing new limits on insurance agent liability. Think of insurance agents as the foot soldiers for the new Michigan auto insurance law. Insurance agents are now – more than ever before – tasked with the responsibility of...

AutoZone to Pay Almost $50 Million Over Changes to Loyalty Program

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/12/19

This month, AutoZone agreed to pay almost $50 million to settle a class action over changes the company made to its loyalty program. According to the complaint, AutoZone promised consumers that they would receive a credit for every purchase of over...

Artificial Intelligence and the Biopharmaceutical Industry: What's Next?

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/12/19

The Situation: Artificial intelligence ("AI") is emerging as a key driver of innovation in the biopharmaceutical industry, which uses AI in research and development ("R&D") to analyze big data. The Result: AI is already transforming the R&D process...

Defence + Indemnity - December 2019: Case Summary: Tanious v The Empire Life Insurance Company

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/12/19

Special costs may be awarded against the insurer in disability insurance litigation in response to a litigant’s personal and financial circumstances, even if there has been no reprehensible conduct or bad faith on the part of the insurer....

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