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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

NAR Broker Commission Policy Change Following Antitrust Settlement

In 2019, home sellers brought a series of class-action lawsuits against the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and several national real estate brokerages, alleging that the defendants conspired in anticompetitive...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Is Your Lawsuit Tax Deductible? | How to know when it is, and isn’t, deductible

The costs associated with hiring attorneys, defending a lawsuit, and paying for damages or a settlement can be exorbitant, and will inevitably damage a company’s profitability. The good news is these payments are often tax...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Is a Personal Injury Settlement Taxed?

Approximately 6 percent of adult Americans experience an activity-limiting injury every three months, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Injuries can happen because of carelessness, such as...more

Maron Marvel

White Paper: Navigating the Growing Risk of Large and Nuclear Verdicts

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The risk of a large verdict has always been a major factor in any litigation. In recent years, the potential for a punitive damages instruction reaching a jury and a consequent verdict has grown as well. US juries have not...more

Fuerst Ittleman David & Joseph

Florida Litigation Update: Third DCA Clarifies When Joint Proposals for Settlement Are Ambiguous and Addresses the Interplay...

Florida litigators are well aware of the power of a properly used proposal for settlement and the potentially devastating consequences of rejecting such a proposal. Such proposals are powerful tools designed to facilitate...more

Harris Beach PLLC

Results in Toxic Exposure/Product Liability Trials Continue Trend of Irrational "Nuclear" Verdicts

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“Nuclear” verdicts are awards that are exceptionally high, eclipsing what would be a rational, reasonable, or expected amount based on the evidence. Three recent jury verdicts awarding unreasonably large compensatory and...more

White and Williams LLP

Jury Awards over $25 Million in a Reverse Discrimination Case against Starbucks

On June 12, a federal jury in Camden, New Jersey returned a verdict in favor of Shannon Phillips, a white Starbucks Regional Director who claimed that she was terminated from her management level position on the basis of her...more

Smith Gambrell Russell

How A Hospital Can Assure That It Will Be Required To Pay Punitive Damages

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During the federal fiscal year ending in September, 2022, the Department of Justice collected more than $1.7 billion in False Claims Act (FCA) settlements and judgments involving fraud in Medicaid, Medicare Advantage (MA)...more

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Big Lie Means Big Payout in Defamation Lawsuit Against Fox News

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Immediately before opening statements were to begin, Dominion settled its defamation lawsuit against Fox News for its coverage of Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” about the 2020 presidential election for a landmark $787.5 million. ...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

$137 Million Racial Harassment Verdict Against Tesla Slashed by New Jury!

An astronomical $137 million jury verdict against Tesla has again been reduced, for a second (and potentially final) time. Last Monday, following a five-day trial on damages, a federal court jury awarded Owen Diaz, a former...more

Mintz

This 1st Circuit Clean Water Act decision makes complete sense except in the real world

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Almost two years to the day after the United States Supreme Court's decision in Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, the First Circuit Court of Appeals rendered its decision in The Blackstone Headwaters Coalition v. Gallo Builders. ...more

Rumberger | Kirk

4th DCA Judge Calls for Reform of Proposal for Settlement Rule and Statute – RE: Ambiguity

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On February 16, 2022, the Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled in favor of an insurer when it determined that the Insurer’s proposal for settlement was not ambiguous. See Tower Hill Signature Insurance Co. v. Alex Kushch,...more

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

NDI Office Furniture to Pay $150,000 to Settle EEOC Sex Discrimination and Retaliation Lawsuit

Furniture Distributor Refused to Hire Women for Warehouse Work and Fired Female Applicant's Son After She Complained About Discrimination, Federal Agency Charged - BIRMINIGHAM, Ala. – Nashville-based NDI Office Furniture,...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Plaintiffs’ fortitude: It’s an admirable must when battling corporate fat cats

While too many of us get overdosed with clownish depictions - from doctors, hospitals, insurers, and corporations, especially Big Pharma firms - of how the civil justice system operates, it’s always worth a reminder of the...more

White and Williams LLP

MDL for Claims Against Manufacturers and Distributors of PFAS-Containing AFFFs Focuses Attention on Key Issues

Claims against manufacturers and distributors of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)-containing aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) are hurtling forward. Two important developments in this opening salvo of PFAS-related...more

Carlton Fields

Dot The I’s And Cross The T’s: The Importance Of Clarity In Claim Communications And The Availability Of Punitive Damages For An...

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The Georgia Court of Appeals recently made waves in Hughes v. First Acceptance Insurance Company of Georgia, Inc., 343 Ga. App. 693 (2017). First, it aggrandized the role of a jury in determining the existence of an offer to...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law - July 2016 #2

VW Will Pay $14.7B in Largest FTC False Ad Suit - Volkswagen made a $14.7 billion deal with the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, and the California Attorney General over charges that the auto...more

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

EEOC Sues Muskegon Family Care for Disability Discrimination

Medical Provider Fired Employee with a Disability, Federal Agency Charges - DETROIT - Muskegon Family Care, a medical services provider located in Muskegon, Heights, MI, violated federal law by firing an employee due to...more

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Trial Attorney Tax Summary for Taxation of Settlements and Damages – Part 2: Punitive Damages

Overview - Part 2 of this series focuses on the payment of punitive damages. One component of the equation focuses on the receipt of punitive damages by a plaintiff. The second part of the equation focuses on the...more

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