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Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection – 4/13/21
In the latest edition of the Cybersecurity Newsletter, our team covers: the importance of having Terms of Use on a website what to do when your company’s PII is subpoenaed a newly ratified Utah statute that will help defendants in cyber litigation a large fine for Booking.com for not complying [...]
Morrison Mahoney Prevails Before Supreme Judicial Court in Landmark Decision
On February 26, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a landmark 52-page decision addressing causation in tort and opting to depart from long standing precedent and practice in a concerted effort to bring greater clarity and more certainty to an area that has long been confusing and confounding.
Connecticut Insurance Law Update – March 2021
Morrison Mahoney's Connecticut Law Newsletter provides exclusive commentary from our attorneys on the latest court decisions in insurance law and related legal topics in Connecticut. Connecticut Insurance Law Update - March 2021
New York State Workers’ Compensation Board: Forms C-8.1 and C-8.4
In our last article, we discussed how the C-4 family of paper forms would no longer be accepted from medical providers as of July 1, 2021, and that they would then be required to file Form CMS-1500 instead.
Doull v. Foster: The New Normal for Causation Analysis in Negligence Cases
Attorneys practicing tort law likely remember their first year of law school when they learned a plaintiff must establish all four elements of negligence by a preponderance of the evidence to prevail on a claim. Those elements were, and still are: (1) duty, (2) breach, (3) causation, and (4) harm.
Surviving the Motion to Dismiss: COVID-19 Tuition Lawsuits Clear First Hurdle
In the months after the arrival of the pandemic, colleges across the country transitioned from in-person to remote learning. The vast majority of colleges refunded students' housing payments after students were forced to leave, but most schools did not offer any reduction for tuition after the entire educational format had [...]
