There are lots of risks in the restaurant business: bad food, unruly patrons, defective furniture. Fortunately, copying a recipe claimed by someone else is not one of them. Judges regularly close the courthouse doors on such claims, which, as a result, are few and far between. Until, that is, 3-D Continue Reading
Health Law Insights Newsletter – Issue 7
McCarter & English, LLP’s Health Care Group presents Issue 7 of the Health Law Insights, which discusses the latest legal issues in the health care industry. NATIONAL Providers’ Obligation to Report Medicare Overpayments Clarified in New RuleNew Core Clinical Quality Measures Released Continue Reading
New Jersey Adopts the Uniform Trust Code: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, But What Does it Mean for You?
In a flurry of legislation approved in January, New Jersey enacted its version of the Uniform Trust Code on Jan. 19. P.L. 2015, c.276. It will take effect 180 days after enactment--July 17. The Trust Code is derived from the model Uniform Trust Code (UTC) promulgated by the National Conference of Continue Reading
What Makes for a Successful Receivership: Ins and Outs of How They Work
Stephanie Reed Traband authored “What Makes for a Successful Receivership: Ins and Outs of How They Work” published by Bloomberg Law. Continue Reading
Much Ado About Nothing in Design-Defect Cases
For most product liability cases involving design-defect claims, New Jersey's Model Civil Jury Charges offer two options for instructing the jury on how to determine whether the design of the subject product was "defective." Those two tests are known as the "risk-utility" test and the "reasonable Continue Reading
President Obama Signs Two New Cybersecurity Laws; FERC, Congress Take Aim at Cybersecurity Risks in the Electric Utility Sector
A new law gives the President and the U.S. Secretary of Energy emergency powers over the electric sector in a grid security emergency and seeks to increase cyber information sharing to better protect all sectors including the energy sector. In addition, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has Continue Reading
It’s Not All About Error Preservation: Appellate Counsel’s Role on the Trial Team
Top Five Ways to Define an Appellate Strategy
Untested in Battle—The Cybersecurity Insurance Policy War Exclusion
An unnamed sovereign state, terrorists, or a rebel faction pilfered $10 million through an unauthorized wire transfer, and then unleashed Aurora, Stuxnet, or a yet-to-be named cyber-pestilence on your "supervisory control and data acquisition" (SCADA) systems. When the dust cleared, you had $8 Continue Reading
Cyber Threats Are On the Rise: Are You Covered?
A number of high profile corporate data breaches, mainly in the U.S. retail sector over the last two years, have rapidly led to a major change in enterprise cybersecurity strategy. Information security officers now view risk avoidance as extremely challenging, if not impossible. A traditional Continue Reading