On October 1, 2026, the Department of Justice issued Directive 26-12, a memorandum to all Fraud Division personnel regarding corporate enforcement. The directive outlines corporate enforcement priorities, steps to ensure corporate investigations and enforcement actions are treated consistently, and
A Florida federal judge has found architectural firm HKS liable for providing defective structural designs from its engineering subconsultant on a hospital project in Florida. The case involves expansion of an existing hospital in Lake Mary, Florida. The owner, Orlando Health, hired
California just closed the door on one legal theory driving thousands of CIPA website-tracking claims, but businesses still face real exposure under the statute’s other provisions.
For three years, businesses have faced a particular brand of privacy suit: claims that
On Sept. 29, the USPTO issued another memorandum as well as a new flowchart addressing applicant “subject matter eligibility declarations” (SMEDs) submitted to establish eligibility under Section 101. This is now the third time the office has issued guidance on
Sexual harassment has been in the headlines again in recent weeks. Just last week, the EEOC filed suit against a trucking company in Michigan over alleged sexual harassment. The EEOC claims that the president of logistics, who was also a
Nuclear verdicts are growing at an alarming pace. Healthcare risk managers face increasing challenges in purchasing an insurance tower sufficient to withstand a nuclear verdict. Filling the tower can be difficult as insurers assess their willingness to bear nuclear verdict
As usual, Tom Petty was spot on when he sang, “the waiting is the hardest part.” Marijuana rescheduling has tested that proposition all year, and this week it was retested. We’ve spent a lot of ink this year on what
The rising use of AI agents across healthcare will inevitably produce claims when those agents make the wrong call. The question that lands on the risk manager’s desk is which policy responds. Until recently, policyholders could reasonably assume that AI
AI developers who train large language models on copyrighted code just cleared a significant legal hurdle. On September 16, 2026, the 9th Circuit affirmed dismissal of the plaintiffs’ claim in Doe v. GitHub, Inc. under Section 1202(b) of the Digital
For healthcare providers, professional liability coverage protects against financial and reputational risk. A provider’s reputation and credentials can be worth far more than any single claim — and providers depend on their insurers to defend against those risks. The Georgia
