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When Should You be Added to Your Vendor’s Insurance Policy?
Vendors and other independent contractors should be covered by Commercial General Liability (CGL) and Professional Liability Insurance (PLI) policies, which protect them against the consequences of accidents, errors and omissions, mistakes, and oversights when...
Setting Up to Sell Your Business
Selling a business is much like selling any other big-ticket item. You wouldn’t sell your house, for example, without appropriate renovations, understanding your property value and the market at large, and assembling the right team to facilitate the sale. The same is...
Keeping the Peace: Strategies for Handling Suspected Workplace Misconduct
If you’re already committed to a full-fledged investigation for employee misconduct, we’ve got you covered on procedure and best practices. But merely suspecting wrongdoing before the investigation phase is a different story. What should an employer do to protect the...
Planning Your Company Social Event: How to Balance Recreation and Liability
Good work culture tops most employees’ wishlists (and most employers’, too), increasingly so in a time when employers must compete with remote jobs, freelancing, and other worker-centric setups. Company social events like holiday parties can promote a winning work...
Representing Your Company In Court: The Curious Case of Alan Pearlman
Imagine the scenario: you own several pieces of real estate, and rent the properties out for income. Things are going well and you’ve set up an LLC or corporation as a holding company. You’re good at what you do, self-sufficient, including handling tenant disputes....
Cancelling Contracts: Which Sales Have a Cooling Off Period – And Which Do Not
As it turns out, there is some truth to the old cliché that contracts are made to be broken. But not all contracts, and not all the time. The law recognizes that sometimes the ability to cancel a contract works in the public interest: sometimes a consumer buys a good...
When Can’t You Terminate an At-Will Employee?
Employment at will – the right to terminate a work relationship for any reason or no reason at all – is a state law concept structured to give both businesses and workers flexibility and mobility in the workforce. From an employer’s perspective, employment at will...
Stopping Lawsuits Dead: Eliminating Risk with Liability Waiver and Release Forms
Over the last three years, two personal injury cases on divergent courses made national news. In Pennsylvania, 63-year-old Patricia Evans fractured her wrist while doing “suicide runs” – a set of intense agility movements – under the direction of an LA Fitness...
A Practical Guide to Media Releases for Content Creators
For content developers – including marketers for your more standard goods and service providers – huge opportunities for content creation exist in public space, from community events to newsworthy stories on public figures. But what counts as “public”? And do...
When, Where, and How to Conduct Employee Workplace Searches
Company searches of employee space and property are sometimes necessary to preserve safety, workplace confidentiality, and other important company policies. Employers often wonder what is fair game for a search if they suspect something is amiss, or if they want to be...
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