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By William A. Ruskin The New York Court of Appeals ruling that came down Jan. 9 in Doe v. Guthrie Clinic , 2014 NY Slip Op 00138 (Court of Appeals 1/9/14) [ enhanced opinion available to lexis.com subscribers ], should prove helpful in evaluating the...

The Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division has overturned a $7.4 million judgment in Lau v. Seabring Associates, A-3864-10, in favor of a pedestrian who had been hit by an underaged drunk driver leaving a pool party at an apartment complex,...

CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 78 No. 4 April 2013 A Report of En Banc and Significant Panel Decisions of the WCAB and Selected Court Opinions of Related Interest, With a Digest of WCAB Decisions Denied Judicial Review CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE...

CALIFORNIA COMPENSATION CASES Vol. 81 No. 11 Nov 2016 A Report of En Banc and Significant Panel Decisions of the WCAB and Selected Court Opinions of Related Interest, With a Digest of WCAB Decisions Denied Judicial Review CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE...

A Mississippi truck driver employed by an independent hauler may not maintain a civil action against one of the hauler’s customers, whose own employee engaged in a horseplay incident with the driver by giving him a “bear hug” and throwing...

An Illinois appellate court recently held that workers’ compensation law’s “traveling employee” doctrine may not be extended into the tort law arena so as to support a claim that an employer was liable, upon respondeat superior...

Attention Lexis Online Subscribers: Citations below link to lexis.com. Bracketed citations link to Lexis Advance . During a conversation years ago with my mentor and friend, Arthur Larson, I asked him if there were special challenges in teaching workers’...

Under California’s “required vehicle” exception to the going and coming rule, injuries sustained during the commute are said to arise out of and in the course of the employment if the employer required the employee to utilize her personal...

An employee acts in the course of her employment during an accident when she commutes on a regular route on a regular work day under a "special errand" exception to the going and coming rule. Defendant drove across a slick road in Cass County...

In the July release of Matthew Bender’s Responsibilities of Insurance Agents and Brokers, the author, Bertram Harnett, added the case of Berry v. Indianapolis Life Ins. Co. , 600 F. Supp.2d 805 (N.D.Tex. 2009). Insurers face exposure from such conduct...

An employee acts in the course of her employment during an accident when she commutes on a regular route on a regular work day under a "special errand" exception to the going and coming rule. Defendant drove across a slick road in Cass...

In a Whitepaper entitled " Restoring Balance-Proposed Amendments to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ", authors Andrew Wiessmann and Alixandra Smith, writing on behalf of the US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform who recently proposed amending...

At what the FCPA Blog termed "an unprecedented investigation into the Department of Justice's (DOJ) enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)", on November 30, 2010, at a hearing entitled the " Examining Enforcement...

In the July release of Matthew Bender’s Responsibilities of Insurance Agents and Brokers, the author, Bertram Harnett, added the case of Berry v. Indianapolis Life Ins. Co. , 600 F. Supp.2d 805 (N.D.Tex. 2009). Insurers face exposure from such conduct...

LexisNexis Overview: Creditors' claim against a corporate debtor was disallowed where the claim was based upon an allegation that employees and agents of the debtor committed fraud against the creditors and converted their assets, as release of...