Are You Liable for Serving Alcohol at Holiday Parties?
Let's say that you are having a Holiday party (with alcohol served) at your home, or you are a business owner and have a voluntary "company" party for your employees. If someone becomes "visibly...
View ArticleHoliday Cheer with Less Legal Fear
To start, for any company-sponsored gathering, liability cannot be totally eliminated. Even if attendance is completely voluntary for your employees, if the event is held on your property they will...
View ArticleCan I Report My Company For Failure to Carry Workers Comp Insurance?
You have discovered that your employer is not living up to its legal obligation to carry workers’ compensation insurance. Can you report them? Are there penalties they will face? Can you report your...
View ArticleLawsuit By City Of West, Texas Against Chemicals Companies Presents...
In the aftermath of the devastating April 2013 explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, the city of West sued Adair Grain, Inc., which owned the plant, and CF Industries, which supplied the...
View ArticleThe Smaller Stuff Creates the Biggest Liability Pitfalls for 401(k) Plan...
When I was a kid, I had an Intellivision. For those people born after 1980, Intelliivision was video game console that had better graphics than an Atari 2600 but people didn’t buy. One of my favorite...
View ArticleDespite Having WSIB Coverage, Worker Permitted to Sue “Physically...
Physically demonstrative managers beware: your company’s workers compensation coverage does not necessarily protect you from lawsuits by employees. Even though her employer had Workplace Safety and...
View ArticleLawsuits Are On The Rise. Are You Covered?
On September 25, 2014, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) filed the first two suits in its history challenging transgender discrimination under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. As...
View ArticleAdditional Risk: Does Your Company Have Additional Insured Coverage for...
One of the biggest risks oil and gas companies face is a blowout or other catastrophic event that causes serious injury or death. In the aftermath of such an event, companies often find themselves...
View ArticlePolicy Observer - December 2014
Giving and Receiving: Insuring Company-Sponsored Volunteerism: This is the time of year when we are reminded of the importance of giving. Many companies not only donate generously to nonprofits and...
View ArticleConstruction Case Law Update - December, 2014
FLORIDA STATE CASES - Employer Liability Policies & Worker’s Compensation – Although decedent-employee’s estate had standing as a judgment creditor to sue the tortfeasor-employer’s liability...
View ArticleLooking At Angles Of Liability After A Cyberattack
All employers have personnel data on their information technology systems and devices. This data includes personally identifiable information such as names, addresses, birth dates and Social Security...
View Article"The" insured versus "any" insured: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court limits the...
Drawing heavily from an amicus brief authored by Reed Smith Insurance Recovery Group (“IRG”) attorneys in Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court just issued a pivotal decision that effectively...
View ArticlePennsylvania Supreme Court gets a little help from its friends
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court clarified an important liability insurance issue the other day. Mut. Benefit Ins. Co. v. Politsopoulos, 2015 Pa. LEXIS 1126 (Pa. May 26, 2015) (exclusion for liability...
View ArticleNew Law May Create Coverage for Wage and Hour Claims
Employers continue to face a wave of lawsuits alleging violations of various “wage and hour” statutes (overtime pay, meal and rest breaks, etc.). Employment liability insurers have uniformly denied...
View ArticleBlog: Supreme Court Determines That A Director Cannot Be Liable To An...
In Campbell v Gordon [2016] UKSC 38 the appellant, Mr Campbell, was employed by a company as a joiner. Mr Gordon, the respondent, was the sole director of the company. Mr Campbell subsequently suffered...
View ArticleWhat GCs Need to Know About EPLI
This is the fifth in our series of posts for general counsel and the HR professionals who support them. As we have noted previously, GCs are responsible for a lot but may not have time to become an...
View ArticleFourth Circuit Holds Staffing Agency Nurse to be Hospital Employee for...
Is a nurse employed by a staffing agency and temporarily assigned to work at a hospital considered an “employee” of the hospital and therefore entitled to coverage under the hospital’s liability...
View ArticleConsiderations For Your EPLI Policy
All of this news about hurricanes and the tragic images of people losing their homes (and everything in them), takes me back to advice my father gave me years ago, which was: You need insurance for...
View ArticleAre You Liable for Serving Alcohol at Holiday Parties?
Let's say that you are having a Holiday party (with alcohol served) at your home, or you are a business owner and have a voluntary "company" party for your employees. If someone becomes "visibly...
View ArticleHoliday Cheer with Less Legal Fear
To start, for any company-sponsored gathering, liability cannot be totally eliminated. Even if attendance is completely voluntary for your employees, if the event is held on your property they will...
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