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Part One of this article described the background of the CPSIA and some of the developments since its passage. The conclusion herein addresses recent activity relating to products such as electronics, bicycles, and ATVs, the challenges imposed by implementation, and the future of the CPSIA.
On Jan. 1, 2010, extensive new Medicare reporting obligations took effect. They apply to insurance companies and other businesses, including product liability and toxic tort defendants that make payments to Medicare beneficiaries as a result of verdicts or settlements resolving liability claims.
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Courts of appeal historically affirm more than 85% of all trial court <i>Daubert</i> decisions. Trial courts will get it right the first time if you follow this tried-and-true checklist.
The Supreme Court has held that, where an employer adopts a pension plan that includes age as a factor, and the employer then treats employees differently based on pension status, an employer will only be liable for disparate treatment under the ADEA if the plaintiff can adduce sufficient evidence to show that the differential treatment was actually motivated by age and not pension status.
New challenges spring from the excess, for the time being, of supply over demand for legal services. Smart firms are using this as an opportunity to reshape their model and to attract and retain lawyers
What is work? When does the workday begin and end? These seemingly easy questions are not so easy anymore. Here's why.
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In the midst of the ongoing health care reform debate, Congress was able to unanimously agree on retroactively extending the Federal 65% COBRA health care premium subsidy for workers involuntarily separated.
Individuals who live above their means generally pay off their marital debt with a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the marital home. But what happens when the client and his or her spouse have been living above their means by failing to file their federal and state income taxes?
Divorce lawyers have found a new smoking gun to wave around in court: text messages. The unfaithful, in particular, are paying a high price for their salacious messages.