Blog Post
Published 09/14/2022
By James E. Goodrich
Alert
Published 09/13/2022
Industries Insurance
Property insurers faced with COVID-19 related claims for business income losses can take comfort in the recent trend of most appellate courts to find in favor of insurers that have denied coverage based on policy language requiring direct physical loss or damage. What You Need to Know: Many policyholders have submitted COVID-19 related claims to their property insurers for coverage for business income losses. A number of appellate courts are addressing whether COVID-19 and related government orders limiting indoor dining (and other activities) satisfy threshold policy requirements of direct...
Videos
Published 09/13/2022
Industries Sports and Entertainment |Video Gaming and Esports
In this episode of “Lawyers With Game,” host Darius Gambino, Chair of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Sports & Entertainment Practice , and his colleague Angie de Cespedes, discuss the immensely popular video game platform Roblox with guest Ari Staiman, President of Roblox China. They talk about Ari’s history in the video game industry, new innovations within Roblox, Roblox’ Developer Exchange program that helps people monetize their creations within the video game platform, the future of the Metaverse, and much more. This is the first “Lawyers With Game” episode of 2022, and you won’t...
Article
Published 09/12/2022
Services Estate Planning and Administration
Article
Published 09/09/2022
Industries Higher Education
Services Labor and Employment
Alert
Published 09/07/2022
Services Cybersecurity and Privacy
A spate of lawsuits across the country has targeted companies that use website tracking and analytics tools, claiming they are violating prohibitions against illegal wiretaps. In a recent precedential decision, the Third Circuit weighed in on this issue, suggesting that companies can indeed be liable under Pennsylvania law if they fail to obtain adequate consent from website users. Companies that use these common tools should review the decision closely and take steps to guard against similar lawsuits. ​ What You Need to Know : Companies that use common website tools (like cookies) to track...
Alert
Published 09/02/2022
Industries Insurance
Services Employee Benefits and ERISA Litigation | Litigation
This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to interpretation of ambiguous policy terms, evaluation of claimant’s expert witness, inclusion of law firms as appropriate parties from whom plan administrators may seek equitable relief, transfer of cases from the claimant’s choice of venue, and determination of a plan’s ERISA coverage to thwart a claimant’s request for a jury trial. The Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr Employee Benefits/ERISA Litigation Team September 2, 2022 | By Amy Kline , Caitlin Strauss and Allison Burdette Circuit Court Highlights “Poster Child” Case for Construing Policy...
Alert
Published 08/31/2022
Industries Cannabis Law
Background On August 25, 2022, after weeks of promotion by the New York Office of Cannabis Management (OCM), the application window has finally opened for adult-use cannabis dispensary licenses in the Empire State. These retail privileges, known as Conditional Adult-use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) licenses, are a key component of the state’s Seeding Opportunity Initiative and further the Marijuana Regulation & Taxation Act’s (MRTA) goal of social and economic equity throughout the state’s cannabis industry. Specifically, this first-in-the-nation initiative seeks to position individuals with...
Alert
Published 08/29/2022
Services Cybersecurity and Privacy
The California Attorney General began exercising enforcement authority under the CCPA on January 1, 2020. Among the CCPA’s enumerated rights for consumers, the cornerstone of the CCPA, is the right to opt out of the collection of personal information. In Sephora’s case, the Attorney General discovered that Sephora had installed on its website tracking devices supplied by third parties that monitored consumer’s shopping behavior. These devices collected data that included, but was not limited to, “whether a consumer is using a MacBook or a Dell, the brand of eyeliner that a consumer puts in...
Alert
Published 08/29/2022
Industries Health Care
On August 23, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a $300,640 settlement and a Corrective Action Plan (“CAP”) with New England Dermatology P.C., d/b/a New England Dermatology and Laser Center (“NEDLC”) to resolve allegations related to NEDLC’s improper disposal of protected health information (“PHI”) that was a potential violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule (the “Privacy Rule”). ​What You Need to Know: The Privacy Rule requires that covered entities have in place...
Article
Published 08/29/2022
Industries Health Care
Article
Published 08/25/2022
Services Litigation
Blog Post
Published 08/24/2022
By Hector Galeano
Article
Published 08/22/2022
Industries Insurance
Services Insurance Litigation and Arbitration | Litigation
Alert
Published 08/18/2022
Services Public Finance
​On August 4th, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court (the “Court”) issued its decision in Ursinus College v. Prevailing Wage Appeals Board . The Court reversed a decision by the Prevailing Wage Appeals Board (the “Board”) in which the Board found that a construction project financed with tax-exempt bonds issued by a municipal authority for the benefit of Ursinus College (the “College”) was a “public work” subject to the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act (the “Act”) and ordered the College to retroactively pay the applicable prevailing wage rate to the project workers. What You Need to Know: The...
Article
Published 08/18/2022
Services Litigation
