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Karen C. Yotis
over 10 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Workers’ Compensation Centennial
Liberal Republicans, Consensus Politics, and a Fluke: The WILG Looks Back on 40 Years of Worker Advocacy
By Karen C. Yotis, Esq. © Copyright 2012 LexisNexis. All rights reserved. When the Workers’ Injury Law & Advocacy Group (WILG) met in Chicago during 2012 to mark the 40th anniversary of the National Commission on State Workmen’s...
Kevin M. LaCroix
over 9 years ago
Corporate
News Headlines
Management Liability Insurance for Law Firms and the Dewey & LeBoeuf Bankruptcy
The collapse of the venerable Dewey & LeBoeuf law firm is a cautionary tale from which observers have drawn many lessons, including cautions about the perils associated with large law firm mergers and the challenges associated with various forms of...
Elizabeth Sweigart & Lynn Loden
over 12 years ago
Tax Law
Federal Taxation
Podcast Analysis: The U.S. Tax Court decision in PPL Corporation & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner
On this edition, Elizabeth Sweigart and Lynn Loden discuss the distinctive aspects of the U.S. Tax Court's recent decision in PPL Corporation & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner and the holding's potential impact on uncertain tax position reporting...
LN Tax Law Staff
over 11 years ago
Tax Law
Federal Taxation
Courts Split on Limitations Period for Substantial Omissions of Income by Partnerships
[Editor's Note: This narrative is derived from Tax Planning for Partners, Partnerships, and LLCs, § 15.01[17][b]] [Editor's Note 2: On September 27, 2011, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Home Concrete & Supply LLC v. United...
Diane L. Mutolo
over 11 years ago
Tax Law
Federal Taxation
Preserving the Deceased Spousal Unused Exclusion Amount for the Surviving Spouse: IRC Section 2010(c) and Notice 2011-82
By Diane L. Mutolo INTRODUCTION: The Tax Relief Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010 amended IRC Section 2010(c) to allow, after December 31, 2010, a surviving spouse to increase his or her applicable exclusion amount...
Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
over 10 years ago
Environmental
Environmental Law and Regulation
BPA, the never-ending saga
Prior posts have reviewed various studies that indicate that BPA has estrogenic effects. In January 2013 the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) proposed listing BPA under California's Proposition 65 because OEHHA's evaluation...
Robert G. Rassp, Esq.
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Reform Legislation
California: SB 863 and Benson
By Robert G. Rassp, Esq. Attention Lexis Online Subscribers: Citations link to lexis.com. Bracketed citations link to Lexis Advance. Call me weird, obsessed, bored, or deeply disturbed but recently while I was on my almost daily four-mile hike in...
Peter Miller
over 11 years ago
Tax Law
Lexis Tax Staff Commentaries
SCOTUS Showdown: Oral Arguments Heard in Home Concrete Case
On January 17, 2012 before the U.S. Supreme Court, Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart and Gregory Garre , partner at Latham & Watkins, LLP presented oral argument in United States v. Home Concrete & Supply, LLC, et al. In broad terms, at...
Peter Miller
over 11 years ago
Tax Law
Lexis Tax Staff Commentaries
SCOTUS Oral Argument: Does Overstated Basis = Omission from Gross Income?
Editor's Note: View blog discussion on this site of, and hyperlink to, the January 17th oral arguments before the Supreme Court : SCOTUS Showdown: Oral Arguments Heard in Home Concrete Case ... For some time now, the tax bar has been wringing...
Rufus v. Rhoades & Alexey Manasuev
over 11 years ago
Tax Law
State & Local Taxation
Practical Tax Considerations for Sovereign Wealth Fund Investments in the U.S.
Introduction ... [ Prop. Treas. Reg. §§ 1.892-4 and 1.892-5 ]... partly supplement and partly replace the current temporary regulations under IRC Section 892 that have been in place since 2002 (and earlier). Importantly, the proposed regulations...
Calif. WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions Reporter
over 10 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Medicare Secondary Payer
California: No Blanket Rule Precludes Award of Attorney's Fees Based on a Medicare Set-Aside
Here's a sneak peek of a recent noteworthy panel decision that will be added soon to the LexisNexis services: Attorney’s Fees; Calculation; C&R Agreements. WCAB, rescinding WCJ’s award of $66,860.30 fee to applicant’s attorney...
Ralph Lorberbaum
over 10 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
2012 Annual Longshore Conference
By Ralph R. Lorberbaum, Zipperer, Lorberbaum & Beauvais, Savannah, Georgia A record crowd of 342 were in attendance at the 34th Annual Loyola Longshore Conference held in New Orleans on March 15 and 16, 2012. Excellent speakers presented well-prepared...
John Kawczynski
over 10 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Supreme Court Rejects "Anything That Floats" Test to Determine Vessel Status
By John E. Kawczynski Field Womack & Kawczynski, LLC . South Amboy, New Jersey In Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, Florida, 2013 U.S. LEXIS 907 , 568 U.S. ____, 184 L. Ed. 2d 604 (Jan 15, 2013), the U.S. Supreme Court was asked to determine whether...
Cassandra Roberts
over 11 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
A Different Kind of Miracle on 34th Street -- and the DE IAB Makes Postage Law in a Coverage Case
"Miracles are a retelling in small letters the very same story which is written across the world in letters too large for some of us to see." C.S. Lewis Okay, so the title of this post has a lot to do with the U.S. Post Office....which played...
Monica F. Markovich
over 10 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Longshore Act: Is Application of the Section 14(f) Penalty Mandatory When Equitable Considerations Warrant Otherwise?
By Monica F. Markovich and Jonathan A. Tweedy, Brown Sims, P.C., Houston, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana The Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (the “Act”) encourages the prompt payment of compensation benefits ( 33 U...
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