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Federal Privacy Rules Must Get “Data Broker” Definitions Right The California capital building in Sacramento, CA. (jjkbach, https://www.flickr.com/photos/9067772@N07/567465036; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) Corporate data collection is all over the headlines, between a recent Senate hearing on antitrust, the appointment of Tim Wu as the president’s special assistant for technology and competition policy, the nomination of Lina Khan for Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioner, and growing momentum on the Hill for federal privacy legislation. Muc...

Detroit Medical News - March 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic continues to demonstrate the importance and effectiveness of telemedicine as a means of providing patients with access to safe and quality medical care through the use of technology. In order to expand and encourage the use of telemedicine, state and federal legislation has been enacted to relax various requirements for healthcare professionals utilizing telemedicine to provide care to patients. In addition, the standards for reimbursement for telemedicine services by Medicare, Medicaid and other third-party payors have continued to evol...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In one of the first decisions in the country with respect to insurers' obligations to their insureds for COVID-19 claims in the context of commercial liability coverage, one court has found a duty to defend under a commercial general liability (CGL) policy. In McDonald's Corp., et al. v. Austin Mutual Insurance Company, 1:20-cv-05057, the federal district court held that a claim for injunctive relief requiring McDonald's to enact more stringent safety protocols and provide additional train...

Florida Regulator to Hold Hearing for Proposed Citizens’ Rate Increases March 12, 2021 The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation will conduct a rate hearing on Monday, March 15 on proposed rate increases from Citizens Property Insurance Corp. The hearing will be held virtually at 9 am EST and will include testimony and public comment on the insurer’s proposed rate filings. The Citizens Board of Governors approved 2021 rate recommendations in January that call for a statewide average increase of 7.2% for personal lines policyholders – homeowners, cond...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Thomas Guastello v. AIG Specialty Insurance Company, — Cal.Rptr.3d –, 2021 WL 650878 (Cal. Ct. App., Feb. 19, 2021), Fourth Appellate District Court of Appeal, Case No. G057714. Various stakeholders in the Pointe Monarch housing development in Dana Point, California, accused subcontractor C.W. Poss Inc. (“Poss”) of negligently designing and constructing retaining walls.  One such party, Thomas Guastello, sued Poss for damage to a perimeter wall in the backyard of Guastello’s property.  According to Guastello, in January ...