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Preventing Elder Abuse in the Nursing Home
By Marc Zimet, Esq. of Jampol Zimet LLP
Despite the fact that nursing homes and long-term care facilities strive to provide the best care to their patients and residents, such facilities are exposed to a great risk of liability by employees who commit elder abuse. Elder patients are vulnerable and can easily fall victim to various kinds of abuse from employees, including physical and emotional abuse, neglect, and fraud. However, there are steps that nursing homes can take to reduce its risk of abuse.
Revisiting Restrictive Covenants
By Peter Larkin, Esq. of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
Accounting firms often use post-employment restrictive covenants to prevent their clients and employees from being poached by departing partners and employees. As the number of accountants moving between firms has started to pick up again, so too has the number of disputes concerning the enforceability of the restrictive covenants those accountants signed at their former firms.
Expert Testimony May Not Always Be Required for Professional Negligence Cases in Connecticut
By Daniel S. Clark Jr, Esq. ofHinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Cammarota v. Guerrera, 148 Conn.App. 743 (2014)
Plaintiff/appellant and his brother, retained defendant/appellee as their counsel to prepare an agreement related to the development of real property. The agreement contained the terms of the development of the property, the division of assets, and the allocation of payments between the brothers.
Blame It on the Bank? Defending Mortgage Lenders in Premises Liability Cases
By Joanna D. Buchanico, Esq. of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, P.C.
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Key Points:
- In premises liability cases, when the subject property is in foreclosure, Pennsylvania courts have established that plaintiffs' right to recovery against mortgage lenders is limited, if not completely precluded.
- There can be no duty for a lender to maintain a mortgaged property unless they actually control or possess the property.
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Employer's At-Will Policy Passes NLRB General Counsel's Scrutiny
By Steven S. Goodman, Esq, , Howard Bloom, Esq., Roger S. Kaplan, Esq. and Philip B. Rosen,Esq. of Jackson Lewis P.C.
As the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") continues to scrutinize employee handbook provisions, finding that many of them interfere with employees' right to engage in union or protected concerted activity, a determination upholding an at-will employment clause that had been challenged by a union is worth noting.
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