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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Enforcing international arbitration awards in foreign jurisdictions has long been a staple of international business. Indeed, the practice is so common that its governed by an international treaty. The so-called New York Convention was adopted by the United Nations in 1958 and has been ratified by virtually every industrial country in the World, guaranteeing enforceability of foreign arbitrat...

advisor or adviser in marketing materials, disclosures, customer agreements, websites, on business cards or on social media while operating in the capacity of a BD’s RR (not as an IA); 13 32 percent of BDs that allowed RRs to use the title had no prerequisite for the RRs’ use of that title ( e.g., requiring the RR to be dually registered as both an RR and IA representative). 14 38 percent of BDs surveyed did not have E&O insurance to cover investor losses. 15 16 2. Reg BI Survey, Phase Two...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) should consider the implications of a model law making its way through the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) that would establish a licensure requirement and rules of conduct for these participants in the health care marketplace. A number of states have already adopted their own PBM laws, and an NAIC model would be likely to motivate other...

Monday, March 8, 2021 In the fall of 2019, we reported that Vermont enacted Senate Bill 41, which granted the Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (the “Department”) jurisdiction over entities that administer one or more health reimbursement arrangements (“HRAs”), health savings accounts (“HSAs”), and flexible spending accounts (“FSAs”). Senate Bill 41 directed the Department to adopt rules regulating entities that administer HRAs, HSAs, and F...

We summarized Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) in advance of its passage by the legislature and it now awaits Governor Ralph Northam’s signature. This will make Virginia ...

Literature Review on Law and Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction Format The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (‘IFRC’) has been providing technical support to governments on the development of disaster risk management law for over 10 years as part of the overall strategic focus of the Secretariat and its members. In 2009, the IFRC General Assembly adopted Strategy 2020 which notes that ‘[a]ppropriate laws are crucial to ensure the speed and effectiveness of...

Not even perfunctory consultations were made on farm laws, it says. The Narendra Modi government’s affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on January 11 claiming that due consultations were made before bringing in the three farm laws is an attempt to “prevaricate, distort, misrepresent and mislead”, the Congress said on January 13. At an online press conference, party spokesperson and senior Supreme Court lawyer Abhishek Singhvi said the government’s affidavit is at variance to an RTI rep...

: Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 1:02 AM IST FPJ EXCLUSIVE: State to enact Model Act for the establishment of self-financed universities for skill development PTI Photo The Maharashtra Government proposes to enact a Model Act for the setting up of self-financed universities for skill development across the state. The state cabinet on Wednesday will clear the bill moved by the Department of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship headed by the NCP leader Nawab Malik. As per the bill, such self-fin...

How poultry farming in Maharashtra has flourished with farmers joining hands with private players December 28, 2020 × Poultry production has a long history of backyard farming, but the picture has changed in the last few years in Maharashtra, thanks to contract poultry farming While farmers in the north agitating against three agri reform Bills apprehend that private players would exploit them and dominate the sector, the poultry farming segment in Maharashtra with an annual turnover of ₹3...

Farm protests: Government has not given agenda, say farmer groups SECTIONS Share Synopsis “The 32 farmer groups from Punjab met today and deliberated over the issue. We will take a final decision tomorrow after the All India farmer unions meet. A five-member committee of our farmers including Balbir Singh Rajewal and Darshan Pal will speak to the rest of the unions tomorrow,” farmer leader Kulwant Singh Sandhu said on Tuesday. PTI Sandhu said that farmer unions in UK have appealed to UK Pri...