Illustrates how construction companies in Illinois who utilize borrowed employers may be entitled to protections under the Workers’ Compensation Act.
Recommends best practices for adhering to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Final Rule on Civil Money Penalties for Medicare Secondary Payer Reporting. Includes information on safe harbors, penalty amounts, and timing of their assessment.
Summarizes announcement by Illinois Pollution Control Board of its proposed amendments to the groundwater quality standards.
Summarizes a recent ruling by an Illinois appellate court upholding the Illinois Pollution Control Board's rules governing coal ash ponds (35 Ill. Adm. Code 845).
Outlines the use of OTM-50, the new U.S. EPA method to assist in measuring PFAS in air emissions.
Examines two Illinois appellate court opinions that expand law enforcement’s liability under Illinois’ domestic violence law.
Summarizes the latest Federal Trade Commission's annual adjustments to filing fees for premerger review of sizable transactions and reporting thresholds for review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act of 1974.
Explores the Visual Pak case and its impact on whether insurers in Illinois have an obligation to defend their insureds in BIPA litigation.
Explores how dental malpractice defense attorneys can use the results of two recent scientific studies to defend against plaintiffs’ allegations that articaine is more prone to causing nerve damage than lidocaine during dental procedures.
Clarifies how secondary/take-home asbestos exposure cases differ significantly from typical occupational exposure cases; offers key strategies asbestos defense counsel can use in litigating these high-value, high-stakes cases.