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The Legal Intelligencer

Canna Business 101: Insurance Coverage Options

With Colorado's July 2016 ­legalized marijuana sales ­reaching $122.7 million and nationwide annual sales to exceed $7 billion, insurance coverage should be plentiful and easily obtained.
12 minute read

Litigation Daily

This Kasowitz Qui Tam Suit Could Be the Biggest Law Firm Payday of All Time

Plenty of law firms represent whistleblowers. But in a new $90 billion qui tam case, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman is the whistleblower. The 350-lawyer New York-based litigation powerhouse is going after four of the country's largest chemical companies for allegedly failing to inform the EPA of serious health injuries caused by a common chemical. As the relator, the firm could--at least in theory--be entitled to as much as 30 percent of the recovery, or $27 billion dollars. They just have to win.
20 minute read

Corporate Counsel

5 Steps Small and Medium-Size Businesses Should Take to Prepare for a Recall

It's easy to think that product recalls are problems only large companies face. Time to think again.
12 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Buttaccio v. Am. Premier Underwriters Inc., PICS Case No. 16-1059 (C.P. Philadelphia July 26, 2016) Butchart, J. (13 pages).

By | September 02, 2016
A jury found in favor of a railroad employee who suffered injury as a result of physical workplace stressors. In the context of a plentitude of similar injuries, the employer should have known there was a problem and moved to address it, but did not. Defendants' attempts to compel a new trial on the basis of error in allowing plaintiff's expert to testify, denial of their expert's testimony on hereditary factors, and the existence of "inflammatory statements" preventing a fair trial all failed. The court found no error or abuse of discretion in the trial court's ruling, and recommended the judgment be affirmed.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Miami, Industry Group Mount Legal Challenges to New Water Standards

After the Seminole Tribe of Florida launched a legal challenge earlier in the month, Miami and a paper-mill industry group also are taking aim at controversial new state water-quality standards.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Panel Revives Firefighter's Disability Claims for Toxic-Gas Exposure

The injuries a firefighter suffered when he inhaled toxic gases have prompted a split in an Albany-based state appeals court over what dangers are unforeseeable in an inherently dangerous job and which ones come with the territory.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Commission OKs FPL Taking Year Off From Nuclear Charges

Florida Power & Light got approval from state regulators to defer collecting money from customers for a year on plans to build a pair of nuclear reactors in Miami-Dade County.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Canna Business 101: Packaging and Labeling Compliance

It doesn't end with 100 percent federal ­illegality and rigorous Drug Enforcement Agency and Department of Treasury oversight.
11 minute read

Daily Report Online

ALJ Blasts Quarry in Workers' Comp Award

In an unusually critical order for a workers' compensation case, an administrative law judge blasted a granite quarry's handling of the case of a worker who was left with a debilitating lung disease after years of working as a welder and mechanic.
10 minute read

Daily Business Review

What is an Employer to Do in a World of Workplace Shootings?

Employers should have a commitment to a safe work environment and a mechanism for reporting complaints about co-workers to help avoid workplace violence, writes attorney Lisa A. McGlynn.
4 minute read

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