The Highest court has determined that nearly all employment claims can now be arbitrated. Yet, most employers and businesses have not rushed to adopt some form of mandatory arbitration policy. Employers are hesitant to adopt arbitration policies because they just do not understand how arbitration works and how such a...
VERO BEACH, Fla. -- North Carolina-based Himalaya Rankings, LLC and John Sweeney have been ordered to transfer five domains to Private Communities Registry, Inc., doing business as PrivateCommunities.com, by the National Arbitration Forum NAF, a provider of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and...
Businesses and individuals choose National Arbitration Forum to resolve domain name disputes MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- http://www.domain-disputes.com/ -- The National Arbitration Forum domain name dispute resolution program recently handed down decisions regarding the rights to BudRacing.com, BudweiserRacing.com, Patrick-Dempsey.org, and WeThePeople.com. Decisions are made by independent and...
A building contractor's insurance policy does not cover the amounts an arbitrator awarded to a Sparks couple for faulty home construction, a federal judge has ruled. Mutual Benefit Group, which issued the commercial general liability policy to Wise M. Bolt Co. Inc., successfully argued that the CGL...
Judges, arbitrators, jurors and other decision-makers similarly situated have been insulated from having to disclose their decision- making rationale. See Matter of Martin Weiner Co., 2 AD2d 341 (First Dept. 1956) arbitrator should not be called upon to give reason for decision. More than 150 years...
Battle of the Fireflies: Arbitrators Say Competitor Acted in Bad Faith, Willfully Misled LOS ANGELES -- Intellectual property law firm Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP today announced that the National Arbitration Forum NAF has ruled in favor of its client, Sigma Two Group LLC, the...
BOSTON -- CRA International, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAI), a worldwide leader in providing management, economics, and financial consulting services, today announced the expansion of its Insurance Economics Practice. Mark Meyer has joined the practice as a vice president and co-practice leader. Dr. Meyer has more than...
LOS ANGELES -- On behalf of the California Hospital Association and all California hospitals, Hooper, Lundy and Bookman, Inc. has negotiated a landmark $11.8 million settlement with Blue Cross of California, Blue Cross Life and Health and their parent company, Wellpoint, Inc., in a class action relating...
u.s. district Court, wdny Commerce Clause Indictment U.S. v. Soliman 06-CR-236A Judge Arcara Background: The defendant is a physician charged in a 64-count indictment...
Toronto-Based Berenblut Consulting Team Joins NERA NEW YORK -- NERA Economic Consulting, a leading global provider of economic advice and analysis in business, legal, and regulatory matters, today announced that it has acquired the Toronto-based strategy, finance, and economics consultancy Berenblut Consulting Inc. The acquisition...
New York State Court of Appeals Religious Corporation Law Elections Venigalla v. Nori 2 No. 113 Appealed from the Appellate Division Background: The...
John Komeiji, Craig Inouye and Steven Golden to Join Company HONOLULU -- Hawaiian Telcom announced today the appointment of John T. Komeiji, Craig T. Inouye and Steven P. Golden to the company's senior management team. Komeiji will serve as Senior Vice President and...
A former Hallmark employee will get her day in court, but she might be the only one. An attorney for the Kansas City-based card company said Tuesday that the policy the court questioned was revised in August 2003 and already addresses many of...
Representatives of the freshly split east and west sides of Jordan School District have differing opinions on the results of a Deseret News/KSL-TV poll. A total of 72 percent of those polled indicated they believe both sides of a school district should have...
Pignanelli: Avoid being "Empeyed" -- Political observers love to personalize various activities of intrigue. You "Eddie Haskell" someone when using backstabbing gossip (named after the duplicitous snitch from the television program "Leave It to Beaver"). An official is "Monsonized" when persuaded by party leaders, on the...
The Oregon Supreme Court recently issued a decision stating that employees do not have a private right to sue their employers for unpaid wages when they don't get to take their rest breaks or meal periods. That decision takes a lot of heat off Oregon employers.Because...
KYOTO AFP — Group of Eight foreign ministers urged Iran on Friday to suspend uranium enrichment and "act in a more responsible and constructive manner in the region," a call dismissed in Tehran as double-speak. The industrial powers -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/d86f87/community_associat) has announced the addition of the "Community Association Management Answer Book, 2008-2009 Edition" report to their offering. Managing a community association can be very complicated. There are so many rules, restrictions, and regulations that govern community associations. As...
MINNEAPOLIS -- The National Arbitration Forum issued decisions on the rights to YouTube.net, CTV.com, and AmericanGirl.net. Conflicts over domain names are on the rise. The dispute resolution provider handled 1,658 domain disputes in 2006, a 21 percent increase from the prior year, and 1,805 disputes in 2007....
Law Firm Announces New Partners in Chicago Office's Insurance, Investment Funds, Advisers and Derivatives, Products Liability, Litigation, Tax, Bankruptcy/Corporate Reorganization, Corporate and Labor, Employment and Immigration Practices CHICAGO -- Eleven lawyers in the Chicago office of Sidley Austin LLP are among the 34 lawyers elevated...
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