Here are the top 10 events this year that altered the landscape of whistleblower law and heightened the risks.

Trump's Fall Regulatory Agenda Pegs March 2019 For Proposed New Overtime Rule.

For the second time in recent weeks—after recently discussing the SEC’s $14 million award—I spoke with Colin O’Keefe of LXBN, this time on the $1.9 million award handed out by OSHA to a SOX whistleblower.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently proposed a new rule under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act which would prohibit fraud, manipulation, and deception in connection with the offer, purchase or sale of any security-based swap, in the same way that general anti-fraud provisions apply to all securities, and also reach misconduct in connection with the ongoing payments and deliveries of such swaps.

The Second Circuit recently affirmed the dismissal of an ERISA stock drop class action because, like the district court, it held that Named Plaintiff Debra Taveras lacked constitutional standing to pursue her claims.

Damian Myers is featured on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law" discussing the recent Affordable Care Act legal ruling.

Effective January 1, 2015, group health plans and insurers are no longer required to issue a certificate of creditable coverage ("HIPAA Certificate") to individuals who lost group health plan coverage.

A federal district court in Washington recently granted preliminary approval to a $6 million settlement of a mental health parity class action suit against Regence Blueshield.

A federal district court in Illinois recently issued a pair of rulings in cases where insurers sought to recoup payments from practitioners. 

Last week the White House announced the implementation of an online employment tool to assist contractors, service members, veterans and their families.

On April 5, 2012, USCIS let it be known, unofficially, that for the three business day period of April 2 through April 4, it had received 22,323 H-1B cap filings, of which roughly a quarter to a third were advanced-degree exemption cases.

AIPF is an international association of independent specialty law firms that specialize in patent, trademark, and copyright law.

BPLA Panel with Judge Young on Reverse Payments after Actavis.

Proskauer's sports law newsletter, Three Point Shot, recently covered a proposed $1.75 million settlement in a false advertising case involving athletic tape.

As reported last week, a state-sponsored hacker may have breached multiple U.S. government networks through a widely-used software product offered by SolarWinds.

On June 27, 2013, the NY Court of Appeals held that the state can use GPS tracking to monitor its employees during working hours without a warrant.

The article provides valuable insight into the Kingdom's privacy regime and focuses specifically on the central role Sharia plays in Saudi jurisprudence, including in the privacy realm.

Following a growing trend among states, on March 26, 2013, the Utah legislature passed the Internet Employment Privacy Act, which prohibits employers from requesting that job applicants or employees disclose passwords protecting their personal internet accounts.

Our colleagues over at Proskauer's ERISA Practice Center Blog have noted that a recent IRS information letter confirms that "waiting time penalties" paid under California law are not wages...

Béatrice Pola, French & EU Employment Group partner, authored an article titled "Harassment and discrimination on the basis of mental health in France" in IEL.