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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...
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...
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)...
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...
Saul Ewing added Michael Metz-Topodas as a new construction practice partner, working out of its Philadelphia office. Metz-Topodas was previously with Cohen Seglias. (Saul Ewing)
On July 15, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the resolution of eleven investigations as part of its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Right of Access Initiative (the "Initiative"). OCR created...
This month’s Friday Five addresses cases considering: (1) whether monetary relief in the amount of lost benefits is an available remedy for breach of fiduciary duty; (2) the validity of an ex-spouse’s beneficiary designation that contradicts a subsequent divorce decree; (3) if waiver of a pre...
No ‘slam dunk fix’ in HIPAA privacy law to protect abortion patients The Biden administration wants to lean on the decades-old privacy law to protect abortion patients. What could it actually do? “Typically, the laws are trying to catch up with where the real world is, in terms of what’s going on...
Partner Zachary Kobrin authored an article in Cannabis Business Times that outlined 11 considerations for cannabis operators when applying for a license. The article explains that without millions of dollars to acquire a cannabis license from an existing holder, businesses are required to submit a...
Wake Up Call: Austrian Spyware Hits Law Firms, Microsoft Says Saul Ewing hired veteran cannabis attorney Peter Murphy, recently chief legal officer at cannabis operator American Fiber Company, as Wilmington, Delaware-based partner.
Saul Ewing brought on Peter Murphy as a cannabis industry partner based in the firm’s Wilmington, Delaware, office. He arrives at the firm from cannabis company American Fiber. (Saul Ewing)
Higher Law: Do States' Pro-Labor Cannabis Laws Risk Federal Backlash? | Cannabis Law Partner Joins Saul Ewing | Complaints Renewed About Weedmaps Listings Peter Murphy has joined Saul Ewing as a partner in the firm’s cannabis law practice. He was most recently chief legal officer at American Fiber...