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Defence & Indemnity - December 2016: I. INSURANCE ISSUES B.

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/01/17

A vehicle owned by the insured or spouse, if insured, may be an “uninsured automobile” when taken without consent and therefore may be entitled to coverage under the O.P.C.F. 44R Endorsement as an “inadequately insured motorist”, notwithstanding that...

Massachusetts Has Legalized Marijuana — Should Your Workplace Policies Go Up in Smoke?

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/01/17

On November 8, 2016, voters in Massachusetts (along with their counterparts in Maine, California, and Nevada) voted to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. This means that recreational marijuana use is now legal in eight states (California,...

OSHA Civil Penalties Going Up Again – Adopts 2017 Maximums

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/01/17

Seyfarth Synopsis: The DOL has published its 2017 OSHA civil penalties. We had blogged previously about the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2016 adjustments to the maximum civil penalty dollar amounts for OSHA violations. The DOL has now...

EEOC Releases Fiscal Year 2016 Enforcement and Litigation Data

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/01/17

Agency Adds Statistics Detailing LGBT Charges - WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released detailed breakdowns for the 91,503 charges of workplace discrimination the agency received in fiscal year 2016....

Looking Back at Predictions That I Made Three Years Ago, Part 2: eDiscovery Predictions Revisited

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/01/17

Earlier, I took a look back at two posts that comprised six eDiscovery predictions for 2014 that I wrote three years ago. I thought it might be fun to look back at those posts to see how those predictions fared. I covered the first three...

MISO Updates Interconnection Rules

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/01/17

FERC approved MISO’s proposed changes to its generator interconnection procedure (“GIP”) and generator interconnection agreement (“GIA”), designed to streamline MISO’s interconnection queue process. These changes will affect all interconnection...

CMS Finalizes Revamped Home Health Agency Conditions of Participation

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/01/17

CMS recently issued revamped home health agency (HHA) conditions of participation (CoPs), strengthening patient confidentiality, patient rights, quality assessment, care and performance standards. The final rule was published in the Federal Register...

You Should Know - January 2017

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/01/17

People now spend more time online than watching television. And the top destinations are social media sites like Facebook. This month we look at the consequences of sharing too much personal information on social media and ways to protect yourself....

Impacting the Jury with Multimedia Depositions

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/01/17

With improving technology, it’s becoming more and more common for attorneys to display their exhibits on a projector at trial so that the jury can see and better absorb the testimony that accompanies each exhibit. But when playing back a videotaped...

Some FAQ News Under ERISA - The DOL Issues Two More Sets of "Investment Advice" Q&As

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/01/17

The U.S. Department of Labor (the “DOL”) released two additional sets of FAQs on January 13, 2017 regarding the new “investment advice” regulation and related exemptions (the “Rule”) under the fiduciary provisions of the Employee Retirement Income...

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