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Minding Your Business

Insurers Did Not Act As Advertised in “Advertising Injury” Suit

By Om V. Alladi

November 13, 2020

Does coverage for liability arising out of “advertising injury” include copyright infringement suits where the insured was not alleged to have engaged in advertisement? In Superior Integrated Solutions, Inc. v. Mercer Insurance Company of New Jersey, Inc., the New Jersey Appeals Court said “yes,” affirming the trial court’s granting summary judgment for an insured.…

Tax Talks

New OTS report recommends changes to UK’s capital gains tax regime

By Stephen Pevsner & Rebecca Wallis

November 13, 2020

The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has published its first report following its review of certain aspects of the UK’s capital gains tax regime requested by the Chancellor in July this year with the specific purpose of identifying opportunities relating to technical and administrative issues as well as areas where the present rules can distort behaviour or do not meet their policy intent. This report is the first of two. The second will focus on…

Blockchain and the Law

Traditional Supply Chain Challenges During COVID-19 Spur Innovation in Blockchain Applications

By Wai Choy & Jonathan Mollod

November 12, 2020

Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies were already exploring the promise of blockchain to modernize certain aspects of their supply chains. Traditional supply chains can be inefficient, data intensive and costly, often characterized by burdensome paperwork, conflicting records and delays resulting from manual reconciliation processes involving a series of transactions and document exchanges among multiple parties. Blockchain offers potentially substantial benefits in this context, including the secure and auditable validation of transactions, automated…

Minding Your Business

Price Gouging and Bad Intent: How Much Does it Matter?

By Christopher E. Ondeck, John R. Ingrassia, Kelly Landers Hawthorne, Nathaniel Miller, Nicollette R. Moser & Jennifer Tarr

November 12, 2020

Although much of the coverage relating to price gouging enforcement has focused on bad actors hoarding pandemic-related goods, businesses that make good faith efforts to comply with the panoply of price gouging restrictions may nevertheless find themselves in the crosshairs. The relevant statutes typically impose a form of strict liability, and do not take motive into account as we have discussed. Even if we assume that states should be able to freeze prices out…

Proskauer For Good

Proskauer Virtual Volunteers Support LACBA’s Veterans Legal Service Project Clinic

By Colleen Hart

November 11, 2020

Next week, Proskauer will headline the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Veterans Legal Services Project (VLSP) clinic. Proskauer attorneys sponsor the clinic every November – but this year’s clinic will be very different. The VLSP clinic has adjusted to the realities of 2020 and, in doing so, has found new ways to improve its services to veterans. For many veterans, the transition back to civilian life is challenging, and the unique difficulties posed by the…

Labor Relations Update

NLRB Establishes Pathway to Holding More In-Person Manual-Ballot Elections during the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Mark Theodore, Joshua Fox & Yonatan Grossman-Boder

November 10, 2020

As employers faced with a representation petition filed during the COVID-19 pandemic can attest, Regional Directors of the National Labor Relations Board have been incredibly reticent to hold in-person elections. Indeed, since April 1st, when the Board resumed processing representation petitions, approximately ninety percent (90%) of elections have been held by mail rather than in-person. This necessary paradigm shift flew in the face of the Board’s long-standing general policy to hold manual-ballot, in-person elections. However,…

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Blog

DOL Issues Final “ESG” Rule Restricting ERISA Fiduciary Consideration of Non-Pecuniary Investment Factors

By Ira G. Bogner, Russell Hirschhorn, Seth Safra, Steven Weinstein & Adam Scoll

November 10, 2020

On October 30, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (the “DOL”) issued a final rule on factors for selecting plan investments, which restricts “do-good” or “ESG” investing. In response to public comments, the final rule rolls back some of the restrictions and burdens from its proposed rule issued in June (summarized here), but it reaffirms the DOL’s longstanding position that ERISA requires plan fiduciaries to treat the financial interests of plan participants and beneficiaries…

Proskauer For Good

Challenging Proposed DHS Rule Harmful to Lower Income Families

By Erin Meyer

November 9, 2020

On October 2, 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking governing the “Affidavit of Support” requirements under section 213A of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Certain immigrants seeking to come to the United States are required to submit an Affidavit of Support signed by a sponsor who agrees to provide financial support to the sponsored immigrant. The Proposed Rule would impose onerous requirements on petitioning sponsors and joint sponsors,…

Law and the Workplace

The Sedona Conference Working Group 12 on Trade Secrets Annual Meeting 2020, Online

By John Barry

November 9, 2020

John Barry will be participating in The Sedona Conference Working Group 12 on Trade Secrets (WG12) Annual Meeting. The conference will take place virtually from Monday, November 9 to Tuesday, November 10 from 11:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET each day. This meeting will advance WG12’s first set of commentary drafting team efforts towards non-partisan consensus publication for public comment by end of 2020/early 2021. John will be presenting with a panel of leading legal…

Law and the Workplace

New York Court Dismisses Amazon Workers’ COVID-19 Health and Safety Claims

By Evandro Gigante, Arielle E. Kobetz & Heylee Bernstein

November 9, 2020

*** UPDATE: On November 24, 2020, the Plaintiffs in Palmer, et al. v. Amazon.Com, Inc., et al. filed a notice of appeal. The Plaintiffs appealed Judge Cogan’s order dismissing the case to the Second Circuit. We will continue to monitor this case and provide updates. *** On November 2, 2020, the Eastern District of New York issued a notable decision regarding an employer’s compliance with federal and state public health law during the COVID-19 pandemic.…

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Insurers Did Not Act As Advertised in “Advertising Injury” Suit

New OTS report recommends changes to UK’s capital gains tax regime

Traditional Supply Chain Challenges During COVID-19 Spur Innovation in Blockchain Applications

Price Gouging and Bad Intent: How Much Does it Matter?

Proskauer Virtual Volunteers Support LACBA’s Veterans Legal Service Project Clinic

NLRB Establishes Pathway to Holding More In-Person Manual-Ballot Elections during the COVID-19 Pandemic

DOL Issues Final “ESG” Rule Restricting ERISA Fiduciary Consideration of Non-Pecuniary Investment Factors

Challenging Proposed DHS Rule Harmful to Lower Income Families

The Sedona Conference Working Group 12 on Trade Secrets Annual Meeting 2020, Online

New York Court Dismisses Amazon Workers’ COVID-19 Health and Safety Claims

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