Article
Published 01/14/2022
Services Bankruptcy and Restructuring
Alert
Published 01/14/2022
This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to: (1) whether a plaintiff may be entitled to AD&D benefits when their spouse died of an illegal drug overdose; (2) when a plaintiff can supplement the administrative record with medical records that post-date the final benefit decision; (3) whether summary judgment is the proper mechanism for cases involving de novo review and disputes of material fact; (4) whether a preexisting condition exclusion applies when questions exist as to the plaintiff’s date of hire and start of coverage; and (5) whether an insurer can deny LTD benefits based on...
Article
Published 01/13/2022
Industries Higher Education
Services Labor and Employment
Article
Published 01/12/2022
Industries Cannabis Law
Services Labor and Employment
Videos
Published 01/11/2022
Services : Emerging Company and Entrepreneur Services
In this episode of “The Entrepreneur Advisor,” Steven Malit z continues his Top 20 Countdown of the best negotiation tips for businesses, with tips 8 and 9: “Get the other side to invest time” and “Select the negotiation location.”
Article
Published 01/07/2022
Article
Published 01/07/2022
Services Class Actions
Last year, the Eleventh Circuit handed down a ruling that will have ramifications for future class actions in which the plaintiff is purposefully avoiding federal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) by styling his or her claim as one for declaratory relief. In Mack v. U.S.A.A. Casualty Ins. Co. , the plaintiff sued U.S.A.A. in Florida state court on behalf of himself and a putative class, alleging that U.S.A.A.’s use of a third-party valuation tool to calculate the value of his totaled car violated Florida law and breached his insurance policy. The plaintiff asserted...
Blog Post
Published 01/07/2022
By Jeffrey S. Glaser
Podcast episode
Published 01/06/2022
In this episode, host Kermit Nash, co-chair of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Food, Beverage and Agribusiness (FBA) Practice, and colleague Casey Grabenstein, a partner in the firm’s Litigation Practice, speak with Mark Haraburda, CEO of Barchart, a leading provider of commodities and exchange data. They discuss how the digital age has not only impacted boards of trade going from the open-outcry days of traders shouting and giving hand signals on the trading floor to a two-way electronic trading environment, but also how today’s technology has leveled the playing field for all sizes of farmers, cooperatives and agriculture companies to easily and quickly access real-time data and seamlessly conduct business. For example, the traditional way of farmers selling grain has evolved from face-to-face interactions at the co-op or grain elevator to transactions being conducted over mobile apps that connect farmers to merchandisers instantly.
Alert
Published 01/03/2022
Industries Condominium and Community Associations
For many years, associations and their managers have responded to questionnaires from mortgage lenders that seek information about the condominium association to help the lender determine whether a loan to a unit owner or buyer will meet Fannie Mae’s requirements for federally guaranteed loans. What You Need to Know: Fannie Mae updates eligibility requirements for community association loans Managers and boards should expect questions about structural issues, significant deferred maintenance and unsafe conditions during sales Associations should expect lenders to ask whether at least 10...
Article
Published 01/03/2022
Industries Health Care
Blog Post
Published 12/29/2021
Blog Post
Published 12/23/2021
By Dena B. Calo, Erik P. Pramschufer
Blog Post
Published 12/21/2021
By Donald A. Rea
Alert
Published 12/20/2021
Services Intellectual Property
DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience) is an artificial intelligence (AI) system created by Dr. Stephen Thaler. It reportedly conceived two separate inventions without any human intervention and therefore, was designated as an inventor on patent applications related to those inventions. The idea of assigning inventorship to an AI-machine not only brought new legal challenges but also left the global intellectual property (IP) community divided regarding whether an AI-machine can/should be allowed to be named as an inventor on patents related to AI-created...
Blog Post
Published 12/20/2021
By Jason Tremblay, Alexander Reich