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A recent decision of the Appeals Court of Massachusetts provides clear guidance as to the remedy afforded policyholders under the Massachusetts’ Consumer Protection Statute, G.L. c. 93A, for an insurer’s unwarranted refusal to pay reasonable attorneys fees incurred defending the policyholder against potential liability.

In a decision concerning the issue of "joint infringement," titled Golden Hour Data Sys., Inc. v. emsCharts, Inc., et al., Nos. 2009-1306, -1396 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 9, 2010), the Federal Circuit affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas’s post-trial judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) that rejected the jury’s verdict of "joint infringement."

On September 9, Magistrate Judge Paul W. Grimm rendered the sequel to his landmark Victor Stanley decision.

On April 26, in Pearson Dental Supplies, Inc. v. Superior Court (Turcios), the California Supreme Court expanded the narrow scope of judicial review of an arbitration award in an employment case brought under California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA).

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued its decision in Titan Tire,1 holding that Titan Tire could not lawfully pay the salaries of two former employees who were on leaves of absence from the company and working full time for the union.

On June 21, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) announced new proposed rules that would substantially change—and speed up—the existing union election process, as well as limit employer participation in that process.

CMS formalizes its Medicare Part D Coverage Gap Discount Program rules as part of an omnibus Medicare Part C and Part D rulemaking.

On July 19, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a new draft guidance document, titled "Mobile Medical Applications", describing FDA's position on the regulation of mobile applications, i.e., software applications intended to run on mobile platforms, such as smart phones, personal digital assistants, tablets, and other mobile computing devices.

DOS Visa Bulletin includes forward movement of four months in the EB-2 category for China and India and a continued backlog in the EB-3 category.

EB-2 category for all chargeable areas other than China and India remains current, with some considerable forward movement but continued backlog in the EB-3 category.

The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has released its September 2011 Visa Bulletin.

In a move intended to improve the efficiency of the Reliability Standard violation enforcement process, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) yesterday approved the North American Electric Reliability Corporation's (NERC's) "Find, Fix & Track" (FFT) enforcement proposal.

On April 23, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed Arizona’s Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act into law.

Proposed regulations provide detail on who must pay the new patient-centered outcomes research fee, the amount of the fee, and how the fee is to be calculated and reported.

On October 31, the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) filed for a protective order under the Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA) for MF Global Inc., a company registered jointly as an Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registered broker and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) registered futures commission merchant (FCM). James W. Giddens, the SIPC trustee for Lehman Brothers Inc. (LBI), was named SIPC trustee for MF Global Inc. and on November 1, 2011, Judge Ja

In a sign of its increased regulatory muscle, on January 26 the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued proposed rules regarding commodity pool operators (CPOs) that not only proposed eliminating the CFTC Rule 4.5 exemption, as petitioned by the National Futures Association (NFA), but also proposed removing the exemptions from CPO registration contained in Rules 4.13(a)(3) and 4.13(a)(4), which are relied on by a substantial portion of the hedge fund industry.

New free trade agreement provides capital and regulatory controls that help protect Colombian consumers.