If not politically, at least analytically, given local governments' experience with insurance reform and the financial assumptions used in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the PPACA should be considered DOA!
All $1 million practices are worth the same. Client acceptance and pricing of legal services often begin with this premise. Yet, we all understand that this is a simplification of reality.
Despite recent protestations to the contrary, New Jersey duty-to-defend law retains the same unique position that it has for more than four decades.
In some circumstances, there is a strong argument that internal costs the insured incurs to remediate the harm it has caused a claimant can constitute covered damages that the insurer must reimburse.
Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.
Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.
When the decision to purchase traditional practice management software or subscribe to a Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") provider arose this past January, I didn't have time to become mired in a rigmarole of sales calls and consultants. I simply wanted direct access to a product that would increase my productivity, file sharing and practice cohesiveness. I also wanted something that fit into my hardware preference for Mac products.
Representatives from the Federal Trade Commission, the Maryland Attorney General's Office, and the California Department of Corporations updated franchise attorneys about the latest developments in franchise regulation at the International Franchise Association's 44th Annual Legal Symposium.
In recent years, the importance of strategic archiving has intensified amid increasing demands to better control data growth and infrastructure costs, while reducing risks associated with corporate, legal or regulatory compliance. As legal teams and other corporate stakeholders strive to decrease the cost and complexity of responding to the growing volume of e-discovery and governance requests, archiving continues to gain prominence as a critical corporate IT priority.
Several African countries are demonstrating that they have the market size, growth, opportunities, and developing laws to support franchise development that would be attractive to forward-thinking, established franchisors and entrepreneurs looking for new investments.
