The US Supreme Court recently issued a significant decision, impacting many closely-held businesses with buy-sell agreements funded by life insurance policies, Connelly v. United States, 144 S. Ct. 1406 (2024). In a 9-0…
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/ Business Organizations, Insurance, Taxation, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
For more than a decade this blog has covered the growing recognition by policy makers and in the peer reviewed literature that traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) of all kinds should not be treated as a static event from which…
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/ Health, Insurance, Personal Injury
On Monday, June 17, the Vermont legislature passed H.289 to significantly reform the Renewable Energy Standard (“RES”) (30 V.S.A. §§ 8001-8016), overriding Governor Phil Scott’s veto of the bill by a vote of 21-8 in the Senate,…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Taxation, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
On March 27, 2024 the Vermont Captive Insurance Association (VCIA) held its biannual “Roadshow” educational event designed for prospective captive insurance companies. The Roadshow, which has been hosted in over 20 cities, was…
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/ Civil Procedure, Insurance, Taxation
Those were the first words I heard when my client called me the other day. Moments later, I joined a call with my client and a very convincing “representative” of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) seeking money…
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/ Criminal Law, Intellectual Property
Background -
In January 2021, the United States Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020. This law, while intended to prevent criminal actors from hiding and…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
A recent systemic review of the literature, just published in the Journal of Athletic Training, 2024; 59(1): 49-64, concludes that “vestibular and oculomotor screening are prognostic of time to recovery” from concussion…
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/ Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
On January 10, Governor Scott and a tripartisan group of legislators presented H. 719, dubbed the BeHOME Act. This bill may constitute the most ambitious reform effort to date to address Vermont’s inadequate housing supply…
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/ Administrative Law, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
Two recent decisions by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) could spell big changes for employers in two different, but overlapping, areas: Employee Handbooks and Union elections. These decisions were the topic of…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
Background -
In January 2021, the United States Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020. This law, while intended to prevent criminal actors from hiding and…
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/ Business Organizations, Criminal Law, Finance & Banking
Developments in Vermont 2023 -
Captive Legislation -
On May 8, 2023, Governor Phil Scott signed Vermont’s annual captive “housekeeping” bill into law. The 2023 legislation includes the following notable provisions..…
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As reflected in the posts on this blog over the last several years, scientific understanding of “mild traumatic brain injury” (Mtbi) – often referred to as “concussion” – has advanced considerably over the last 30 years…
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/ Personal Injury
Closing out Week 18 of the 2023 Legislative Session -
The end is nigh. Is the end nigh? That pretty much sums up the talk around the State House’s proverbial water cooler..…
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/ Elections & Politics
Closing out Week 17 of the 2023 Legislative Session -
All eyes are on the calendar as adjournment looms. The hopeful have pegged the date at May 12, though with large disparities in the budget between the Senate and House,…
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/ Elections & Politics
Closing out Week 16 of the 2023 Legislative Session -
S.5, the Clean Heat Standard bill was approved by the House this past week.
The bill sets up a marketplace for credits that would provide a system of carrots and sticks…
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/ Elections & Politics