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In Philip Morris USA v. Mayola Williams, etc., decided February 20, the Supreme Court held that punitive damages may not be awarded to punish a defendant for injuries caused to persons not involved in the lawsuit in which such damages are awarded. In that case, where the decedent died from smoking Philip Morris products, the jury found Philip Morris knowingly and falsely led him to believe it was safe to smoke such products. The Oregon jury awarded $821,000 in compensatory damages and $79.5 mill

Are you ready for a health care data breach? Not only the privacy issues that result and the often-enormous burden that is imposed, but the reputational harm that you and your public relations staff must explain to your customers and Board?

The Bush Administration and House leaders Democrat Nancy Pelosi and Republican John Boehner reached an agreement on January 24, 2008 regarding a stimulus package.

On April 28, 2011, the President declared parts of Alabama a federal disaster area as a result of the severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds, and flooding that struck the area.

The Affordable Care Act, in a largely overlooked provision, bestowed broad powers on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to impose a moratorium on the enrollment of new Medicare or Medicaid providers, including whole categories of providers in certain geographic locations.

The D.C. Circuit issued its much anticipated opinion in Canning v. NLRB, holding that President Obama’s "recess" appointments to the NLRB were invalid because there was no actual recess under the Recess Appointments Clause of the Constitution.

Institutional Shareholder Services carries significant weight in decisions made in board rooms and C-level suites in publicly traded companies.

The ADA prohibits employment discrimination against individuals with disabilities, and employers could be exposed to claims of disability discrimination.

In a recent case, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Michigan district court’s ruling that MetLife’s denial of a claim for disability benefits under a MetLife-insured group insurance policy was not arbitrary or capricious.

When considering whether to sponsor a qualified retirement plan, such as a 401(k), or a Simplified Employee Pension plan ("SEP IRA"), one consideration is the protection offered to amounts held in the plan from creditors, civil litigation, and bankruptcy.

On January 24, 2014, in McClain v. Eaton Corporation Disability Plan, et al., the Sixth Circuit dispensed with prevalent efforts by plaintiffs to erode the arbitrary and capricious standard of review under ERISA, and reaffirmed that the standard directs courts to be "extremely deferential" in their review of plan administrator decisions as long as those decisions aren’t "irrational."

On January 24, 2014, in McClain v. Eaton Corporation Disability Plan, et al., the Sixth Circuit dispensed with prevalent efforts by plaintiffs to erode the arbitrary and capricious standard of review under ERISA, and reaffirmed that the standard directs courts to be "extremely deferential" in their review of plan administrator decisions as long as those decisions aren’t "irrational."

It was widely speculated that she was President Obama’s first choice to be Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that owes its very existence in no small measure to Warren’s academic writings and public advocacy.

If anyone doubted the truth of that old chestnut, they need look no further than the ruling issued on April 23, 2013 by the Tennessee Court of Appeals [Eastern Section] in the case of Webb v. First Tennessee Brokerage, Inc., et al.

Legislation has been introduced, under the guise of protecting taxpayers, that would retroactively legalize the government's actions.

Legislators filed bills before the official start date of the 83rd Texas Legislative Session; many of the bills already filed address healthcare issues.

No reason to waste words with a description of current events - the United States is back in a debt ceiling standoff, again...