Posted By: Todd McMurtry | email: tmcmurtry@dbllaw.com
Imagine if you spent your whole career trying to get into the big game, then magically your day comes--you will be playing in the Super Bowl! It would be a dream come true. But imagine if there were no cameras to record the moment and all that friends and family saw of your big day were a few sketches of you catching a pass and a written transcript describing the play-by-play. That would not be worthy of the event. The ratings would be low and people would not value the big game.
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Posted By: Kelly Gindele | email: kgindele@dbllaw.com
Picture this: An owner hires a contractor to provide construction and engineering services for its upcoming project. The project progresses, and the contractor realizes the flooring specified for the project will not be conducive to the owner’s use of the building. At the owner’s direction, the contractor substitutes another flooring for the project, more compatible with the owner’s use. As a result of this substitution, the project is delayed, and the contractor suffers damages. Later, when the owner refuses to pay the contractor’s damages, the contractor is forced to seek retribution from the owner in court.
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Posted By: Christopher Markus | email: cmarkus@dbllaw.com
Earlier this week, a federal appellate court issued an opinion concluding that a merchant violated a federal statute after it sold a customer $25 in neckwear that the customer purchased with his credit card because the merchant gave him a receipt that identified the month, but not the year, that the credit card expired. But the customer’s lawsuit – a putative nationwide class action – was nevertheless dismissed because the merchant’s identification of the credit card expiration month on the receipt was not willful.
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Posted By: Todd McMurtry | email: tmcmurtry@dbllaw.com
In June 2011, Ohio law governing public construction projects changed for the first time in 134 years. This law, known as Ohio Construction Reform (OCR), provides for new methods of construction delivery. Design build is one method authorized by the OCR, which proposes regulations for choosing a design build firm that presents the “best value” to the public authority.
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Posted By: James Dietz | email: jdietz@dbllaw.com
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a proposed rule to implement a provision of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that will have consequences for the healthcare, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries.
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Posted By: David Dirr | email: ddirr@dbllaw.com
It was another record-setting year at the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the prosecution of healthcare fraud. The DOJ recovered over $2.4 billion in civil cases of healthcare fraud in fiscal year 2011 under the False Claims Act. The majority of the $2.4 billion recovered was the result of whistleblower or qui tam actions.
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Posted By: Joseph Cleves | email: jcleves@dbllaw.com
America's commercial design and construction industry is fragmented, adversarial and inefficient. The industry that depends more than all others upon coordination, cooperation and teamwork among multiple participants is our most adversarial. It is the only major industry that is less productive today than it was in 1964, while other industries have doubled their productivity.
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Posted By: Joseph Cleves | email: jcleves@dbllaw.com
Attention: Program update for LCI's Benefits of Lean Series Seminar on February 15, 2012.
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Posted By: Kevin Hoskins | email: khoskins@dbllaw.com
An employer and employee can agree to submit most job-related disputes, including claims for wrongful discharge and discrimination, to binding arbitration. Some employers view arbitration as a faster, less expensive alternative to court, and prefer to have their case decided by an arbitrator rather than a potentially sympathetic jury.
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Posted By: DBL Law | email: news@dbllaw.com
DBL Law has launched the Digital Workplace Team (DWT), a group of partners who counsel clients on how to leverage and minimize risks of workplace technology.
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