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What Relief Does New Disability Access Legislation Provide for Businesses?

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/06/16

In recent years, in response to complaints from both large and small business owners, the California Legislature enacted a variety of measures to rein in lawsuits by individuals with disabilities under California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act and Disabled...

Florida Court Enforces Four Year Statute of Limitations For Work Performed by Window Installer

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/06/16

In Brock v. Garner Window & Door Sales, Inc., 187 So. 3d 294 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App., 2016), plaintiffs, Lawrence and Laura Brock (“Plaintiffs”) sued the contractor that installed windows on their home after they sustained water intrusion damage. Suit...

Prosecutors win $67 million settlement with pharma firms accused of deceit

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/06/16

Federal prosecutors have wrung $67 million in a settlement with two pharmaceutical companies accused of deceiving doctors to prescribe a drug that the firms knew would be ineffective in treating lung cancer patients. Genentech and OSI Pharmaceuticals...

Teacher’s Verbal Abuse of Student Does Not Rise to “Conscious-Shocking” Level Necessary to Support Due Process Claim

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/06/16

L.H. and C.H. v. Pittston Area Sch. Dist., 130 F. Supp. 3d 918 (M.D. Pa 2015) (Decided September 10, 2015). The District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania determined that verbal abuse by a teacher, by itself, does not constitute behavior...

Top Ten Seller Mistakes

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/06/16

In his recently published book, Perfect your Exit Strategy: Seven Steps to Maximum Value, Seattle investment banker Thomas Metz highlights what he sees as the top ten mistakes made by sellers of businesses. Family-owned businesses are not immune...

CAP H-1B Rejections Starting to Arrive, June Visa Bulletin - Heightened Demand for Employment-Based Adjustments of Status Causes Retrogression and More

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/06/16

On June 14, 2016, Clark Hill started to receive rejected CAP H-1B petitions. If an H-1B petition was filed on your behalf by Clark Hill, we will send you an e-mail when we receive an update on your case. On April 7, 2016, US Citizenship and...

Gift card litigation: Recent developments

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/06/16

Many retailers and shopping centre landlords use gift cards to build brand loyalty. These prepaid purchase cards come in a variety of types. They can be reloadable or not. They may be “open-loop” stored-value cards that can be used at any location...

First company in the world to create drone navigation system integrated with insurance

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/06/16

Recently, Singapore-based ALAS Pte Ltd (ALAS) demonstrated its new software system for drone navigation, integrated with insurance for all users, at the Asia Pacific Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) Symposium held in Singapore....

How to Respond to a Notice From the Health Insurance Marketplace That Your Employee Has Qualified for an Advance Premium Tax Credit

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/06/16

Starting in 2016, the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace (the “Marketplace”) will send notices to applicable large employers whose employees received advance premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions, if those employees claimed that they were...

Orlando shootings raise health care concerns

By EsqSocial Corporation 20/06/16

Here’s hoping that the mass shooting in Orlando will focus attention on some health care issues that the event flushed into open view: Gay activists and others have denounced anew these restrictions. They say these rules unnecessarily stigmatize...

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