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Summary- The US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit held that a subrogation waiver provision in a construction contract barred an association’s insurance company from seeking to recover from an allegedly negligent contractor....By: Husch Blackwell LLP

Cimarron Healthcare Capital (CHC) has acquired Infusion Management, according to a news release. Infusion Management, headquartered in Thousand Oaks, Calif., is an infusion therapy management services organization providing services to Infusion for...By: McGuireWoods LLP

On Sept. 18, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB-5 into law, drastically altering how millions of Californians are paid and vastly complicating the legal analysis involved in deciding whether workers are properly classified as "employees" or "independent...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

On September 18, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law A.B. 5, codifying the “ABC test” adopted in the California Supreme Court decision, Dynamex (see, e.g. prior posts here, here, and here) and ensuring that most California workers...By: Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP

The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) released Letter CCPA2019-l on September 10, 2019 (the letter). The letter determined that for purposes of the Consumer Credit Protection Act (CCPA), Health Savings Account (HSA) employer...By: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

The California Legislature has passed Assembly Bill 5 (“AB 5”), which if signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, will codify the California Supreme Court’s decision in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court, 4 Cal.5th 903 (2018). Dynamex adopted a...By: K&L Gates LLP

The withdrawal liability case of the year came to an anticlimactic end on Monday, September 16, 2019, as the Second Circuit docket sheet of New York Times Company v. Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Publishers' Pension Fund pinged to life with a...By: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Section 457(f) of the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) governs “ineligible” deferred compensation plans or arrangements maintained by tax-exempt employers. Section 457(f) does not apply to retirement plans that are qualified under Section 401(a),...By: Thompson Coburn LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: California’s hotly contested and closely followed AB 5 independent contractor bill, which would extend the ABC test beyond Wage Order claims, just passed the California Senate, and now heads back to the State Assembly for...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The National Labor Relations Board continues its efforts to revisit earlier decisions that expanded protections for employees engaged in concerted or union activities. On September 5, the board announced it is soliciting briefs on whether to change...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP