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Blogs Employment Updates (Blog)
April 30, 2012
Don Brown

Worker’s Compensation Denial: RICO Claim Recognized

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed a lawsuit based on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) based on an alleged fraudulent wrongful deprivation of an employee’s entitlement to benefits under Michigan’s Wor

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Blogs Workers’ Compensation (Blog)
April 24, 2012

Social Networkers Have Nowhere to Hide

“Privacy is no longer grounded in reasonable expectations, but rather in some theoretical protocol better known as wishful thinking.” Pretty harsh-but also pretty accurate. This is the language from the judge in a ruling in the 2010 New York

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Blogs Workers’ Compensation (Blog)
April 24, 2012

Claimant Training Day: The Recent Development of “IME Prep”

Recently, a Claimant attorney and two orthopedic surgeons have published “IME Prep,” an instructional DVD series created by Atlanta Claimant’s attorney Rob Hendrix. IME Prep is designed to educate claimants and their counsel about what goe

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Blogs Workers’ Compensation (Blog)
April 24, 2012

GOOD NEWS FROM THE GEORGIA SUPREME COURT

Today, the Georgia Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari for the case of Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc., et. al. v. Laura S. McCrae, Court of Appeals Case No. A11A1021.  Since the Court of Appeals issued their ruling last December, claim

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Blogs Employment Updates (Blog)
April 23, 2012

Intensive Care Nurse: Regular Attendance and the ADA

In the case of a neo-natal intensive care nurse, regular attendance really is an essential function of the job. On April 11, 2012, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an Americans With Disabilities Act lawsuit brought by a nurse with fib

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Blogs Employment Updates (Blog)
April 16, 2012

Increased Overtime Lawsuits

A recent USAToday article “More American Workers Sue Employers for Overtime Pay” notes a reported 32% increase in such lawsuits from 2008 levels. The most common overtime claims focus on: Working off the clock through breaks and before or af

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Blogs Data Privacy & Cybersecurity (Blog)
April 4, 2012

2012 Verizon Data Breach Investigative Report

Each year since 2004, Verizon has released a Data Breach Investigative Report.  The 2012 Report (based on 2011 data) is now available.  The Report, which contains a compilation and analysis of reported breaches, should be of interest to busin

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Blogs Employment Updates (Blog)
April 4, 2012

DATA PROTECTION WEEKLY SPECIAL EDITION

Each year since 2004, Verizon has released a Data Breach Investigative Report.  The 2012 Report (based on 2011 data) is now available.  The Report, which contains a compilation and analysis of reported breaches, should be of interest to bus

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Blogs HBS Immigration America: A Brave New World
March 28, 2012

H-1B SEASON FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013 BEGINS APRIL, 2, 2012

Monday April 2, 2012 marks the first day of the cap filing season for Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 H-1B petitions.  The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin receiving  H-1B petitions on that date.   However, the ear

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Blogs Employment Updates (Blog)
March 26, 2012

Employee Blog Creates Employer Liability

A California Appeals Court confirms in Espinoza v. Orange County an employee’s disability harassment claim based in part on a co-employee’s off-work blog. Plaintiff filed a complaint against the county government defendant for discriminatio

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