One of my biggest tasks as an ERISA attorney is helping plan sponsors out with voluntary compliance and self-correction programs. Many of these problems that have to be fixed are as a result of the plan document saying one thing and the plan sponsor...
On May 24, 2019, the SEC announced payment of more than $4.5 million to a whistleblower who sent an anonymous tip to the company alleging significant wrongdoing and then submitted the same information to the SEC....
The FTC recently issued orders against three companies, in different industries, enforcing the Consumer Review Fairness Act (CFRA), which prohibits businesses from using illegal non-disparagement clauses in contracts with consumers....
The Situation: Name-brand pharmaceutical manufacturers are often sued with claims that they should have strengthened the warnings on their labels, even where (as here) the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") would not allow them to do so. The U.S....
Services play a large role in today’s economy, and it is important to be mindful of how certain pitfalls that apply to product-based intellectual property rights also apply to method or process-based intellectual property (“IP”) rights. For example,...
On May 23, 2019, the U.S. Senate approved the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (“TRACED”) Act by an overwhelming 97-1 vote. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was the only senator to vote against the bill....
Australia has started to observe a rise in the number of data breach class actions being investigated and filed, although there has not yet been a successful data breach class action there. A range of factors are at play which support the increasing...
With the recent launch of Time's Up Health Care and the publication of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering and Medicine...
On May 17, 2019, the Taiwanese Parliament approved a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, making Taiwan the first country in Asia to adopt such legislation. Under the new law, same-sex couples now are able to marry legally, effective May 24, 2019....
