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You Auto Know! Social Media Update

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You Auto Know! Social Media Update

You Auto Know! Social Media Update  By Robert A. Poklar As you know, in the past this author has written articles on social media.  Recently, I received a call from an attorney in another state asking for advice on a problem where a salesperson was sending text messages to potential customers.  Some issues arose regarding […]

DOL Issues Final Overtime Rule Setting Threshold Earnings at $47,476 Beginning on December 1, 2016

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DOL Issues Final Overtime Rule Setting Threshold Earnings at $47,476 Beginning on December 1, 2016

Today, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued its much anticipated final rule expanding overtime eligibility.  The final rule sets the minimum salary threshold for overtime exemption at $47,476.  Under the new rule, all salaried employees making less than $47,476 must be paid overtime for all hours worked over 40 in a regular work week, no […]

Insurer Prevails in Church Lawsuit – Ohio Supreme Court Enforces Abuse and Molestation Exclusion in Commercial Policy

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Insurer Prevails in Church Lawsuit – Ohio Supreme Court Enforces Abuse and Molestation Exclusion in Commercial Policy

In World Harvest Church v. Grange Mutual Casualty Company, slip opinion 2016-Ohio-2913, decided on May 12, 2016, the Ohio Supreme Court enforced an abuse exclusion in a commercial insurance policy, finding no coverage for damages awarded against an employer found liable for its employee’s physical abuse of a child in the care, custody or control […]

Architects & Engineers Newsletter

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Architects & Engineers Newsletter

Weston Hurd’s Architects & Engineers Newsletter (Spring 2016) includes articles written by David Patterson and Frederick Bills that focus on: Assignability of Designer’s Contracts; The Loaned-Servant Doctrine and Design Professionals; The Clause Corner; and Are Design Firms Subject to Public Records Request? The newsletter can be found by clicking: 2016 – Architects and Engineers Newsletter – April Excerpts from […]

You Auto Know! – Identity Theft

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You Auto Know! – Identity Theft

You receive an internet inquiry for a specific vehicle you have for sale.  The potential purchaser is from Virginia.  The transaction is negotiated by telephone and email transactions.  After you have successfully negotiated the sale of the vehicle, you obtain all of the pertinent customer information on the credit application.  Further, your customer wants all […]

Does Ohio Recognize “Virtual Adoption”?

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Does Ohio Recognize “Virtual Adoption”?

In a three part series for the Estate Planner newsletter, Weston Hurd partner, Angela Carlin, poses the question Does Ohio Recognize “Virtual Adoption”?  In Sanders v. Riley, No. S14A1314, decided March 16, 2015, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the equitable doctrine of virtual adoption when it reversed a trial court’s judgment in favor of Curtis […]

Employers May Pay for Pay Inequality: The New EEOC Pay Data Rule

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Employers May Pay for Pay Inequality: The New EEOC Pay Data Rule

On January 29, 2016, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Obama Administration unveiled a new proposed rule that would require employers with a 100 or more employees to disclose hours worked and compensation for employees by gender, race and ethnicity.  Employers would be required to report this information on revised employer information reports, […]