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Biden Heads to the Picket Line in Michigan to Court Autoworkers
President Biden’s trip comes a day before former President Donald J. Trump arrives in Michigan, as the two men offer dueling messages to a powerful voting bloc in a key swing state.
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AI Notetaking Tools Are All the Rage – But Should You Use Them? Employers Should Weigh These Risks First
Perhaps you’ve asked an employee to take notes during a Zoom meeting, but they complained the task is difficult to manage while collaborating with teammates. Maybe you intended to document everything that transpired during an important call about a new strategic plan, but conversations moved too fast to track. Artificial intelligence can be a valuable…
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Antitrust and AI: US Antitrust Regulators Increasingly Focused on the Potential Anticompetitive Effects of AI
Companies in various industries are increasingly incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into critical aspects of their businesses, and for good reason, as AI has the potential to confer many substantial benefits: It can help companies identify and create operational efficiencies, reduce costs, streamline job processes, improve customer experiences, optimize business strategies, and increase profitability….By: K&L Gates…
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With a Key Deadline Fast Approaching, Now Is the Time to Address the New and Complex Requirements for Data Transfers Outside of China
U.S.-based multinationals with employees in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are confronting a November 30 deadline to implement China’s new cross-border data transfer mechanism—the Standard Contract. This implementation requires not just completion of the standardized data transfer agreement but also completion of a complex transfer impact assessment and submission for approval of these and…
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Anti-Obesity Medications as Medicare Part D Drugs – Legal and Health Policy Rationales
Obesity is a complex, multifactorial disease that has serious health consequences, affects millions of Americans and drives hundreds of billions of dollars in annual health care spending. Scientific understanding of the nature of obesity has evolved over the course of the past several decades. It is now clinically recognized that obesity is a disease, not…
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CSA Release Guidance on Public Crypto Asset Funds
This summer, the Canadian Securities Administrators (“CSA”) published CSA Staff Notice 81-336 Guidance on Crypto Asset Investment Funds that are Reporting Issuers (the “Notice”) concerning funds that seek to invest in crypto assets, either directly or indirectly, under National Instrument 81-102 Investment Funds (“NI 81-102”) (“Public Crypto Asset Funds”)….By: Stikeman Elliott LLP
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Johnson Financial Group Provides Notice of Leaked SSNs to Over 93k Consumers Following Vendor Data Breach
On September 22, 2023, Johnson Financial Group filed a notice of a data breach with the Attorney General of Maine after learning that a vendor used by the company experienced a MOVEit data breach. In this notice, JFG explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being able to access consumers’ sensitive information, which…
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Summary Judgment and Adjudication Motions Filed by Three Automotive Product Defendants; Some Granted and Some Denied
Jurisdiction: Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles – In this asbestos action, three defendants filed motions for summary judgment, and in some cases, in the alternative, motions for summary adjudication, against plaintiff Ronald Carpenter’s claims that he was exposed to asbestos from their products….By: Goldberg Segalla
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Sanctions Awarded After Court Determines Insurer Knew/should Have Known Its Improper Venue Defense Was Not Supported by Application of Existing Law to Material Facts Where Same Clause Had Been Determined Ambiguous by District Court of Appeal
Alliance Chiropractic Group, Inc. a/s/o Polande Rither v. United Automobile Ins. Co., County Court, 9th Judicial Circuit in and for Orange County, Case No. 2019-SC-017663-O, Dec. 20, 2022 – This suit involved the defendant’s failure to pay the plaintiff’s claim for PIP benefits for treatment rendered to Mr. Rither. This was originally a two-count complaint,…
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Court Grants Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss and Compel Arbitration
American Rehab Kare, LLC a/a/o Tracy Alexandre v. Plymouth Rock Assurance Preferred Corp., Orange County Case No: 2022-SC-018083-O – This suit was brought as a breach of contract action for failure to pay PIP benefits. In response to the plaintiff’s complaint, Plymouth Rock filed a motion to dismiss and compel arbitration….By: Marshall Dennehey