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You’d Think They Would’ve Learned …

Posted in Civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, Labor and Employment, Miscellaneous, Politics, Workplace, tagged , , on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We’ve bailed out the banks, we’ve bailed out insurance companies, we’re bailing out the auto industry … you’d think by now that even the most die-hard Libertarians among us would throw up their hands and admit that some regulation of industry is good.
Well, not Richard Epstein, a Law Professor at the University of Chicago, who, [...]

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New Laws Enacted for 2009

Posted in Consumer, Consumer Law, Courts, Employment Discrimination, Government, Health Care, Insurance Law, Labor and Employment, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Long Island Business News recently published an article concerning new laws that are going into effect this year that will affect business and consumers. Here they are in capsule summary form, but you can also check out the article for more detail:

Repeal of the no-prejudice rule that allowed insurers to deny coverage if the insured failed [...]

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Firm’s Efforts to Represent Corporate Employees Thwarts Informal Discovery, Brooklyn Judge Finds

Posted in Courts, Employment Discrimination, tagged , on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

An all-too-common situation that confronts plaintiff’s attorneys is when corporate defense attorneys declare that they also represent employees who are fact witnesses to the subject matter of the lawsuit.
Effectively, this prevents the attorney from conducting potentially valuable informal interviews of the witnesses. And employees are often afraid to reject this “offer” from their employer and counsel.
A Brooklyn judge rejected an attempt [...]

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