Legal News

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Employee Lawsuits (An Introduction and Topic Overview)
How employers can cope with the siege of employee lawsuits

Employee Lawsuits: Negligent Hiring and Retention
Employers must check references, criminal records, other background material.

ERISA Pension Benefits after Termination
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
TEA-21 - Plus Law 105-178

Traditional and Roth 401Ks
Selecting the right Retirement Plan

Sprint Nextel
alleging violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act

Electronic Data Systems Corp.
allegedly failed to pay employee overtime.

Brown Greer et al.
alleging that the six law firms handling the Vioxx settlement failed to provide money for reimbursements to lien rights of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) health plans.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...

Apprehension Agent
State of Minnesota pays employee whistleblower and discrimination settlement.

Simplicity
Recalls 400,000 Drop Side Cribs