Employers often focus on FMLA, ADA, and state leave laws when employees take time off, but they may overlook a critical detail: their group medical insurance policy dictates how long active coverage can continue before COBRA obligations arise. Understanding these policy terms is essential to avoid inadvertently extending coverage beyond contractual limits or failing to offer required continuation coverage at the right time.

Supplier Issues: Suppliers of materials and goods into the United States may be getting some relief in 2022 from container shortages and rising freight costs.

Companies that receive or are reasonably expected to receive forgiveness for Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") loans cannot deduct expenses for payroll costs,...

Court cases interpreting title insurance coverage originate in various jurisdictions around the United States and are typically relied on or distinguished readily by other courts that have not faced the same question before.

Businesses accumulate intellectual property (IP) assets over time – some purposefully acquired, while others are created by the natural operation of business.

The new approach may be especially significant to acquisitions of start-ups within the digital platform market.

On Thursday April 16, 2020, President Trump unveiled his "Guidelines for Opening Up America Again" (the "Guidelines"). The Guidelines are designed to help state and local officials reopen their economies...

The lockdown of several economies in order to slow the spread of COVID-19 has distracted many from recent changes in U.S. export control law affecting transactions with China.

The Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated the US-EU Privacy Shield mechanism for compliance with the GDPR, citing US government surveillance laws.

Due to a surge in the number of COVID cases and new viral variant cases in China, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced the reinstatement of COVID testing requirements...

Defending Breach of Contract Claims Arising from Supply Chain Disruptions: Significant disruptions in supply chains increased for many industries in 2021...

Shortly after the Act was signed, a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality was filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida...

The Coronavirus pandemic has impacted our collective mental health.

The Bill would create a new section of the New York Labor Law, NY Lab Law 191-d, prohibiting employers from seeking, requiring, demanding, or accepting a "noncompete agreement" from any "covered individual.

In California, courts have found unenforceable provisions in employment agreements restricting competition and the non-solicitation of customers.

Although part-time employees are not likely eligible for a company's group health plan because they work fewer than the 25 or 30 hours per week ...

As many of you are aware the World Health Organization has declared the COVID-19 a world-wide pandemic. Many foreign nationals and their employers are struggling to determine how...

On April 22, 2020, President Trump ("Trump") issued an Executive Order ("EO") which, under the guise of a national emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Ever since (and even before) the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 138 S. Ct. 1612 (2018), companies are asking its employees to sign mandatory arbitration agreements.

California recently passed one of the strictest data privacy laws in the country, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which will go into effect on January 1, 2020.