Daily Compliance News: July 22, 2025, The I-9 Hell Edition
Blowing the Whistle: What Employers Should Know About DEI & the False Claims Act
(Podcast) California Employment News: Creating the Report for a Workplace Investigation – Part 4 (Featured)
California Employment News: Creating the Report for a Workplace Investigation – Part 4 (Featured)
Essential Steps to Sell Your Business
Workplace Risks Meet Holistic Legal Solutions: One-on-One with Adam Tomiak
Legal Shifts in 2025 Put Employer Non-Compete Strategies at Risk - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
Podcast - How Do You Define Success?
Hiring Smarter: Best Practices for Interviews: What's the Tea in L&E?
New Executive Order Targets Disparate Impact Claims Nationwide - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
Podcast - The Law as a Force for Change
Strategic HR Insights with Kelly Mitchell
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 41: Employment & Labor Law Issues for Construction Companies with Bridget Blinn-Spears of Maynard Nexsen
Stumbling Your Way Into a Union: Key Advice for Employers: What’s the Tea in L&E?
California Employment News: Taking Advantage of the PAGA Reform – How Employers Can Lower Their Risk of PAGA Liability
(Podcast) California Employment News: Taking Advantage of the PAGA Reform – How Employers Can Lower Their Risk of PAGA Liability
AI in Employment: Navigating the Legal Landscape with Lessons from I, Robot — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Constangy Clips Ep. 9 - The Penalty Playbook: 3 Pointers for Employee Discipline
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 39: Best Practices for Conducting RIFs and Layoffs with Jennifer Wheeler of Maynard Nexsen
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Gavels & Gowns - Enforcement on Campus: The Impact of New Immigration Priorities on Academia
Comer v. American Transmission Systems, Inc., Civil Action No. 23-1464, 2025 WL 1530750 (W.D. Pa. May 29, 2025) - Carlos Melendez was working on a “transmission tower painting crew” for one of several named defendants when he...more
In a recent opinion issued on June 27, the Supreme Court of Texas emphasized that the presence of negligence does not always lead to liability, and Texas law requires more from those seeking such a finding....more
The Appellate Court of Maryland (“App. Ct.”) addressed in a June 27th Opinion issues arising out of alleged mold exposure. See Candace McCarthy v. Board of Commissioners for Frederick County, Maryland, 2025 WL 1778818....more
A new Virginia law, effective July 1, 2025, adds Section 8.01-42.6 to the Virginia Code to address employers’ vicarious liability for their employees’ tortious conduct in personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits brought by...more
The Texas Supreme Court recently issued a major opinion reversing a nearly $90 million judgment against a national motor carrier in a personal injury suit arising from a multi-vehicle crash on an icy interstate. The case,...more
On an icy winter day more than ten years ago, the driver of an F-350 pickup truck, traveling eastbound on Interstate 20, crossed a 42-foot grassy median, entered in westbound traffic, and collided with a Werner Enterprises...more
In a significant decision issued on June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court of Texas reversed a jury verdict awarding over $89 million in damages in favor of the plaintiffs in Werner Enterprises, Inc. v. Blake, holding that the...more
The Texas Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s decision against a franchisor based on a theory of negligence after a customer was assaulted by an employee of the franchisee. The court concluded that franchisor did not owe a...more
On May 2, 2025, the Texas Supreme Court held that a franchisor owes no duty of care for injuries caused by a franchisee’s employee unless the franchisor retained or exercised control over the hiring of that employee....more
Texas employers that opt out of the state’s workers’ compensation program recently received a big win that will impact litigation strategies. While workers’ comp provides a no-fault system, employers that elect not to...more
In a recent important decision, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia formally recognized that a third party can sue an employer for negligent supervision of an employee, even if the employee’s intentional or reckless...more
We touch upon several issues in this month’s update. Negligent breach of contract: Courts recognize that a CGL policy does not cover breach of contract claims. But where the insured is accused of negligently performing its...more
Court: Appellate Court of Maryland - A Maryland appellate court has affirmed a lower court’s decision that granted summary judgment to the defense in a toxic substance exposure case....more
On May 2, 2025, the Texas Supreme Court reversed a Texas Court of Appeals’ decision that had affirmed a jury’s verdict finding a franchisor directly liable to the customer of a franchisee for actions undertaken by the...more
Losing a finger on the job is more than a painful injury—it’s a life-altering event that can disrupt your livelihood, limit your independence, and leave you facing a long and uncertain recovery. Whether caused by faulty...more
Leslie M. Jenny and Gabriella M. Wittbrod, both of our Cleveland, OH office, were granted summary judgment on behalf of their corporate nursing home clients in this medical negligence case. Judge Phillip S. Naumoff of the...more
An recent Ohio appellate court decision reinforces a critical point for plaintiffs and a crucial defense strategy for defendants: if you don’t properly and timely name individual employees/agents in a lawsuit, you may lose...more
In North Carolina, as in many states, liability waivers are often used to protect equine activity sponsors, such as individuals, groups, clubs, partnerships, or corporations from legal claims arising from injuries sustained...more
In the age where cling wrap doesn’t cling and “shrinkflation” is a necessary portmanteau, it’s rare to get more. This is especially true for insurers, whose policies are construed against them when ambiguous, and...more
Last week attorneys for Creative Actors Agency (CAA), Miramax and Disney delivered oral argument in their appeal to try to prevent actor Julia Ormond’s negligence claims from moving forward in New York State Court. Oral...more
The Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently affirmed a judgment holding Domino’s Pizza vicariously liable for a motorcycle accident involving a franchisee’s delivery driver. Coryell v. Morris, — A.3d —, 2025 Pa. Super. 28...more
We previously reported that the Illinois Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Martin v. Goodrich Corp., upholding the constitutionality of a 2019 amendment to the Illinois Workers’ Occupational Diseases Act (the...more
B.W. v. Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County, 2024 W.L. 4300718 (M.D. Pa. 2024). On various claims arising from alleged abuse of former students, Federal District Court denies summary judgment for career technology...more
As the winter months roll on and snow and ice continue to cover the asphalt and concrete, it is helpful to remind ourselves about the state of the law with regard to employee injuries that result from falling down in parking...more
Brown v. Brooks, 2024 WL 5008506, No. 23-2966 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 6, 2024) - This matter involved a motor vehicle accident between the plaintiff and a laundry truck driver, and it illustrates the danger of errors during discovery....more