Give the Notice, the Whole Notice, and Nothing but the Notice 1. Give the Notice The first question that should cross the mind of anyone planning to purchase or lease a gas station is: have the underground gasoline storage tanks at the station ever leaked? If so, negotiating responsibility for the […]
Article Originally Published: September 2009 The information contained in this article is not intended to be legal advice. Readers should not act or rely on this information without consulting an attorney. One of the biggest “hammers” wielded by the government to impose environmental liability on private companies with contaminated property is […]
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The attorneys in Dean & Fulkerson’s Labor and Employment Law Practice Group recognize that all employers, whether small, medium or large, must comply with a myriad of federal and state law and regulatory enactments in the context of the labor and employment environment. These include: (1) the Americans With Disabilities […]
Jim Dworman has been appointed Adjunct Professor at Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School, where he teaches Sports Law. Jim represents numerous local and national sports radio and television personalities and officials associations. He is a law columnist for Referee, an international sports officiating magazine. In his free […]
The February, 2009 stimulus included the Health Information technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. The HITECH Act imposed significant new compliance obligations on employers by expanding the HIPAA privacy and security requirements which apply to group health plans and other “covered entities”. Some of these new requirements are […]
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Article Originally Published: February 2008 The information contained in this article is not intended to be legal advice. Readers should not act or rely on this information without consulting an attorney. Quiz time. Here are your facts: Bob Smith has been an employee-driver for Old Job Cartage for a couple […]
Article Originally Published: August 2007 The information contained in this article is not intended to be legal advice. Readers should not act or rely on this information without consulting an attorney. On a bad day for your company, a Special Agent from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has arrived […]
Article Originally Published: November 2006 The information contained in this article is not intended to be legal advice. Readers should not act or rely on this information without consulting an attorney. “It is the difference between telling a child that she may eat a cookie anywhere she chooses so long […]