EEOC Settles Sexual Harassment Suit for $2.3 Million
October 07, 2003
The New York District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that it had entered into a Consent Decree in a sexual harassment case under which four former female employees and their private counsel will receive $2.3 million from Simat, Helliesen & Eichner and Reed Telepublishing.
A Word to the Wise
October 07, 2003
Few would argue with the proposition that today's employers generally take claims of discrimination and harassment in the workplace far more seriously than was the case a generation ago, or even just a few years ago. The lessons of equal employment opportunity are being learned on a daily basis, and the workplace is the better for it.
No Skirting This Issue
October 07, 2003
Look it up. It's in the Constitution. Or so argued one municipal transit authority employee when her employer mandated that all employees ' male and female ' wear pants.
New HIPAA Privacy Rules Take Effect April 14
October 07, 2003
Congress recently amended the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to include what has become known as the 'Privacy Rule,' a statutory provision addressing the privacy of health information. The Rule covers health care providers, health care clearinghouses and health plans, including employer-sponsored group health plans.
Collaborative Family Law Practice and You
October 07, 2003
Have you considered making your matrimonial practice collaborative? That's the system currently gaining favor around the country whereby divorcing couples seek to resolve issues with the aid of collaborative attorneys who take part in discussions involving both divorcing parties and their attorneys.
ADR and Other Options: Advising Your Clients
October 07, 2003
It never fails to amaze me. Educated professionals, usually of the legal variety, begin discussing the state of our civil justice system. A discussion of the adversarial system ensues. Debating what is wrong with it, or perhaps, (thanks to those 'half-full glass' types) ways in which it could be improved, is usually an animated segment of the discussion.
How to Challenge the Forensic Psychiatrist's Report
October 07, 2003
Envision the following scenario, which is not necessarily commonplace, but not unheard of, either: Your client, the mother of a 9-year-old girl and two boys, aged 2 and 5, has been married for 14 years, most of them unhappy. Your client has been struggling with, and is being treated for, a series of psychological problems, including bipolar disorder, suicidal ideation and post-partum trauma disorder. The client has been a stay-at-home mother, attending to the demands of three children with busy schedules. Her marital problems have increased dramatically since the birth of the youngest child, to the point where she now believes the domestic discord is detrimental to her own as well as to her children's emotional well-being.
Cerebral Palsy: New Obstacle to Proving Causation
October 07, 2003
A plaintiff who alleges that lack of oxygen during a botched delivery caused a child's cerebral palsy might have a new obstacle to proving causation, if juries give credence to a recent report commissioned by two major medical organizations.
