The issue of worker classification (i.e., whether a worker is considered an "employee" or not) was recently addressed in a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision involving Costco.

While 2021 brought major changes to the workplace with respect to mask and vaccination mandates, recent actions taken by federal and state legislatures suggest that even more changes are coming in 2022,...

Beginning January 1, 2022, pursuant to California's new Debt Collection Licensing Act (DCLA), all consumer debt collectors who are collecting on their own account or the account of others...

Pending the signature of Governor Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania will become the 4th State/Commonwealth in recent years to pass some version of an anti-indemnity law relative to snow...

The COVID pandemic has impacted the practice of law in many ways including moratoriums on jury trials, conducting depositions remotely on ZOOM platforms, and courthouses being closed to the public.

Recently, we examined one of the first rulings about the Georgia Supreme Court's Emergency Orders and their effect on a case's statute of limitations. In Owens, the Middle District of Georgia determined the addition...

A recent ruling in the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a decision of the Northern District of Alabama siding with a law firm sued for malpractice after not warning the client to cease behavior in an unsettled area...

The airline sought to enforce the arbitration clause in the plaintiff-employee's employment contract.  

The Supreme Court of Georgia on August 10, 2021 issued an opinion significantly limiting the apportionment statute in Georgia.

As noted in our recent blog, OSHA announced in mid-November, 2021 that it was suspending activities related to the enforcement of its COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard ("ETS")...

Effective September 1, 2021, Texas employees will have expanded protections against sexual harassment as part of the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act

The start of a new year is an excellent time for design professionals to review and implement measures for avoiding and minimizing their potential exposure from liability claims.

On February 8, 2022, the Department of Justice ("DOJ") successfully seized over $3.6B in stolen cryptocurrency linked to a 2016 hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange platform.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the Biden administration is "preparing an array of actions" to combat the ransomware epidemic by targeting the digital currency market as early as this week.

The case is styled Henry's Louisiana Grill, Inc. v. Allied Insurance Company of America, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Case No. 20-14156.

Pennsylvania has upped the ante on the restaurant industry.

New York employers should brace for a prospective uptick in sexual harassment claims as a statewide toll-free confidential hotline became active on July 14, 2022. According to a Press Release...

At its Petersburg, New York plant, Tonoga, Inc. made products and materials coated with polytetrafluoroethylene, better known by its trade name, Teflon. Before 2013, when making Teflon...

In an important recent decision, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has extended the protections of the Massachusetts Statute of Repose to a painter of parking lot markings.

On July 27, 2022, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court of ("SJC") held that food delivery app drivers do not fall within the narrow category of employees who are exempt from arbitration...