Exploring OSHA’s New and Increased Enforcement Initiatives
2016 brings two notable changes from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) that will impact the construction industry: 1) increased penalties for Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) violations; and 2) an expansion of the Worker Endangerment Initiative, an OSHA enforcement Continue Reading
Madden NFL Lawsuit Gets Sent Back to the Locker Room
On Monday, March 21, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear arguments in Electronic Arts v. Davis, a case originating from the Ninth Circuit. This was bad news for the petitioner, Electronic Arts (EA), who was seeking to strike the complaint under California’s anti-SLAPP Continue Reading
Infringing Lasagna? 3-D Printing Risks Innovative Restaurants Already Use The Technology – But Is It All Protected IP?
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