The Ohio House of Representatives passed HB 447 in February, 2022 and the bill is now pending approval by the Ohio Senate. If passed, this bill could expand the definition of a work injury to...

Dinsmore Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer Tammy Bennett, a labor and employment partner, was a featured panelist in a...

If an employer engages in illegal discrimination when terminating an employee, that employer should pay compensatory damages related to that termination.

Over the past couple of months there have been more and more county boards of education discussing the potential of entering into the oil and gas leases.

On November 8, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued its decision in "West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, et al. v. Huffman" (Appeal No. 09-1474).

Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telehealth across Ohio and the United States was steadily increasing. However, out of necessity over the last two years...

On December 22, 2010, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that employers will not be required to complete Part 6 of the Form I-129 Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker form containing export control/ITAR compliance questions, until February 20, 2011.

As reported in previous "Immigration Insights", the U.S. government is conducting more frequent visits to locations where H-1B workers are employed in an effort to find instances of immigration fraud.

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) updated its "frequently asked questions" (FAQs) Tuesday, providing guidance relating to the...

Several key business tax breaks are set to expire at year end unless Congress acts. Businesses should be aware of these expiring tax provisions and should consult with their tax advisors to determine whether they should take action necessary to take advantage of these tax breaks and/or to plan for the effects of the expiration of others of which they have taken advantage in the past.

A 2004 study by Bain & Company found that 70% of mergers failed to increase shareholder value.

A new trend in Kentucky has recently emerged where plaintiffs are attempting to base their workers' compensation claims on evidence that their employers allegedly mistreated them while they were on light duty or exercising some other type of accommodation after a work-place injury.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals holds that a plaintiff-employee's claim of disability discrimination (based on the defendant-company's requirement that he take a functional capacity evaluation) cannot withstand summary judgment, as valid safety reasons supported the required test, it was not an adverse employment action and did not prove discrimination.

The Ohio Department of Health ("ODH") has released the applications for both skilled and non-medical home healthcare licenses, which are now required pursuant to H.B. 110, now codified as R.C. 3740 et. sec.

A recent decision issued by the Department of Justice's Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Office ("OCAHO"), found that an employer's failure to complete Section 2 of the I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification) form within three business days was a "substantive" rather than technical/procedural violation.

As of June 21, 2022, importers of goods from China and other countries that contain China origin inputs of components or raw materials are subject...

The requirements for competency testing by county boards of education are set forth in West Virginia Code 18A-4-8e, which defines the purpose of the tests as "to provide county boards of education a uniform means of determining whether . . . employees who do not hold a classification title . . . meet the definition of the classification title."

On May 14, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously gave litigants a clearer and more practical rule: when a federal court properly takes a case and stays it for arbitration under Section 3...

On Tuesday May 4, 2010, EPA started the process of federal regulation over the disposal and storage of coal combustion residuals, commonly referred to as coal ash.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has increased flexibility in how ornamental designs for computer-generated interfaces or icons, e.g., GUI designs...