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Becket McGrath, Trupti Reddy; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 2, 2012, previously published on February 2012 On 26 January 2012, the Financial Services Bill (the Bill) was introduced into Parliament. The text of the Bill was published by HM Treasury on the following day. Amongst other things, the Bill sets out the objectives and powers of the new financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA),...
| | Handicapped by Association? Not According to the Massachusetts General Laws
Alexandra B. Rubin, Timothy P. Van Dyck; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 2, 2012, previously published on February 2012 Last month, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts held that a former employee could not successfully bring a claim of discrimination against his law firm employer based on his association with a handicapped family member. The case, Ayanna v. Dechert, helps to clarify a...
|  | FCC Adopts Closed Captioning Rules for IP-Delivered Programming
Adam M. Co, Seth A. Davidson, Alan L. Friel, Arthur H. Harding, Dominique R. Shelton; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 2, 2012, previously published on January 31, 2012 In accordance with Congress’ direction in the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (“CVAA”), the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has released a Report and Order (“Order”) that adopts rules governing the closed...
| | Employers Should Prepare Now For NLRB’s New “Ambush Election” Rule
Rory J. McEvoy, Elizabeth A. Peters; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 2, 2012, previously published on February 2012 On December 22, 2011, the NLRB finalized a controversial new rule designed to speed up the union election process. The new regulation severely limits the issues that can be litigated in the pre-election hearing and shortens the time period between the date that the NLRB directs an election and the...
| | Federal Court of Appeals Affirms Statutory Bad-Faith Liability Imposed on Insurer Despite Jury's Refusal to Find Liability for Common-Law Bad Faith
Patrick Frye; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 2, 2012, previously published on February 2012 In jurisdictions that impose on an insurer a common-law duty of good faith and fair dealing and a statutory duty not to act vexatiously or unreasonably, an insurer may be found to have violated one duty even if it did not violate the other. The Eighth Circuit recently handed down a ruling serving...
| | March 1 Deadline for Companies and Vendors with Massachusetts Personal Information
Theodore P. Augustinos, Laurie A. Kamaiko, Mark E. Schreiber, Socheth Sor; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 31, 2012, previously published on January 2012 By March 1, 2012, companies with personal information of Massachusetts residents must amend their existing contracts with vendors that handle such information to require the vendors’ compliance with the Massachusetts data security regulations. This requirement applies to the personal...
| | European Data Protection Reform Update: Summary of the 25 January 2012 Announcement
Richard Graham, Mark E. Schreiber, Thomas J. Smedinghoff; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 26, 2012, previously published on January 2012 The European Commission has just released a new and comprehensive rewrite of European Union data protection law which, if adopted by the European Parliament, promises to have a major impact on companies doing business in the European Union. Thus, as the regulation moves towards final adoption,...
| | Whistleblower Claims $1.6 Billion in Unclaimed Property Lawsuit Against Two Leading US Life Carriers
John David Dickenson, Patrick J. Gennardo, A. Kenneth Levine, Mark G. Peters, Douglas L. Prochnow; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 26, 2012, previously published on January 2012 In January 2011, Total Asset Recovery Services, LLC (“TARS”), a company describing itself as “an investigative group of professionals tasked with locating lost or unrecoverable assets on behalf of rightful owners and creditors,” filed a lawsuit under seal against two leading...
| | Acolyte Decision Shines A BacLite On Earn-out Clauses
Niall McAlister; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 25, 2012, previously published on January 2012 A recent UK High Court decision (Porton Capital Technology Funds and others v 3M) relating to the sale of Acolyte Biomedica Limited has provided UK M&A practitioners with a valuable insight into how the courts interpret the future obligations of the parties under an earn-out clause in a share...
| | EEOC Expands Company-Wide Scrutiny of Hiring and Job Assignment Practices
Barbara A. Lee; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 25, 2012, previously published on January 2012 The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently announced that it plans to expand and devote additional resources to its “systemic discrimination enforcement initiative.” The EEOC’s Draft Strategic Plan for 2012-2016 builds on its “Systemic Enforcement...
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