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Employers Continue to Face ERISA Tobacco Surcharge Lawsuits, With Mixed Results

Husch Blackwell LLP on 8/6/2025

Recently, companies have seen a spate of class action lawsuits challenging the legality of tobacco cessation wellness programs and related tobacco surcharges imposed by their employer-sponsored health benefit plans....more

New SEC Cybersecurity Compliance Deadlines are Coming: What 5 Things Should Covered Institutions Do to Prepare?

Fisher Phillips on 6/30/2025

The SEC’s amended Regulation S-P, adopted last year, will soon enhance data privacy protections for broker-dealers, investment companies, registered investment advisors, and transfer agents. The updated rule requires these...more

Employer Cheat Sheet for Workplace Laws Taking Effect July 1

Fisher Phillips on 6/24/2025

Most employers are prepared for new laws at the start of each year – but did you know that a heap of new workplace laws take effect at the halfway point? Here’s your employer cheat sheet to prepare for July 1 effective dates…...more

California Employment Laws Related to States of Emergency

BakerHostetler on 1/16/2025

Amid the ongoing Southern California wind and fire emergencies, California employers should keep in mind key emergency-related legal protections for employees and obligations placed on employers. Specifically, the Wage Theft...more

July is Still the New January! Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute’s Mid-Year Legislative Report

Littler on 6/21/2024

Hot off the press – here is Littler’s mid-year report! As federal regulators, states and cities continue to pass new workplace regulations through the calendar year, we summarize each state’s notable labor and employment law...more

NYC Artificial Intelligence Law on Employment Practices Takes Effect January 1, 2023

Flaster Greenberg PC on 9/23/2022

On November 10, 2021, the New York City Council passed Int. No. 1894-A Relating to Automated Employment Decision Tools. This law is effective as of January 1, 2023. As 2023 creeps closer, prudent NYC employers will take steps...more

Buying a UK Crypto Business: The New Regulatory Hurdles

Goodwin on 9/21/2022

The advance of the regulation of crypto-assets and crypto-related service providers has been piecemeal in the U.K. The latest round of changes took place in the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 (MLR) on 1 September...more

California to Enact New COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Requirement

Fisher Phillips on 3/19/2021

The California Legislature just approved a measure that dramatically extends and expands a requirement for employers to provide supplemental paid sick leave to employees impacted by COVID-19. Among other things, this new...more

What We Can Expect from the CCPA Regulations

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 4/19/2020

While the United States largely hit the brakes as of March in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra made clear his intentions to begin enforcement of the Act on July 1, 2020, as...more

A Reminder of the Critical Issue of Notice and Timing in Claims-Made Cyber and Tech E&O Policies

White and Williams LLP on 4/8/2020

The recent decision in Illinois federal court in Hartford Fire Insurance Company v. iNetworks Services, LLC, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53473 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 27, 2020), serves as an important reminder on the role of timely notice...more

Not There Yet — California AG Publishes Modified Proposed CCPA Regulations

Goodwin on 2/13/2020

On February 7, 2020, the California Attorney General (AG) published, and updated on February 10, modified proposed regulations (Modified Regulations) implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The Modified...more

How Safe Is That Harbor? The Impact of the Defend Trade Secrets Act's Whistleblower Immunity Provision on a Trade Secret Owner's...

Troutman Pepper Locke on 9/13/2019

Imagine that your company has just commenced an internal compliance investigation in response to an allegation that the company is violating various federal laws. The next day, a longtime employee with access to the company’s...more

Arent Fox 2019 Survey of Data Breach Notification Statutes

ArentFox Schiff on 9/10/2019

This version updates the third edition of the Survey that we circulated last year, including new statutes and amendments that have been enacted since August of 2018. This survey focuses on the data breach notification...more

US Data Breach and Privacy 2019 Legislative Recap

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 7/2/2019

A few weeks ago, Texas signed into law an amendment to its data breach law, capping off a busy first half of 2019 for state lawmakers in this arena. As we gear up for the second half of 2019, we thought a recap was...more

Six Steps To Take Immediately After You Suspect Wire Fraud

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC on 6/24/2019

Wire fraud is on the rise. Health care providers engaging in transactions, whether operational or financial, need to remain aware of crimes involving compromised emails and fraudulent wire transfers....more

Two New Breach Notification Laws Usher in the (Unofficial) Beginning of Summer

Saul Ewing LLP on 6/5/2019

As the unofficial start of summer begins, Washington and New Jersey have recently enacted two new pieces of cybersecurity legislation. ...more

North Carolina’s Much Anticipated Data Breach Notification Law Amendment Moves To General Assembly

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 4/25/2019

The much-anticipated amendment to North Carolina’s data breach notification law that we reported on earlier this year (see here) has finally been introduced to the state’s General Assembly. The bill entitled, an Act...more

California Consumer Privacy Act: The Challenge Ahead – A Comparison of 10 Key Aspects of The GDPR and The CCPA

Hogan Lovells on 10/3/2018

As the most comprehensive privacy law to be enacted in the United States thus far, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has inevitably invited comparisons to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation...more

State Legislative Action on Data Breach Laws

Troutman Pepper Locke on 8/14/2018

The changes keep coming! In 2018, state legislatures have been active in enacting and amending data breach notification laws. With Alabama’s recent enactment, all 50 states now have data breach notification laws....more

Data Breach Laws See Flurry of Activity in U.S. and Canada

Troutman Pepper Locke on 4/25/2018

With South Dakota and Alabama’s new statutes, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have now enacted data breach notification laws. The Oregon and Delaware amended statutes will enhance requirements, and Canada’s new law...more

The Second Circuit Provides A Roadmap For Employers Defending Claims Under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act

Littler on 12/7/2017

While the emergence of biometric technology in the workplace is not a new phenomenon, employers being sued for utilizing this technology is a new trend. Over the past three months, more than 30 class action lawsuits have...more

Third Circuit Rules That WARN Act's "Unforeseeable Business Circumstances" Exception Requires That Layoffs Be Probable, Not...

Jones Day on 11/27/2017

In Varela v. AE Liquidation, Inc. (In re AE Liquidation, Inc.), 866 F.3d 515 (3d Cir. 2017), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit became the sixth circuit court of appeals to rule that a "probability standard"...more

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