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Medical Monitoring: 25 Years Later
For more than 25 years, healthy plaintiffs have been filing lawsuits based upon their "fear" of developing an illness. These plaintiffs are typically symptom-free and exhibit no indications of disease related to an alleged product exposure, but they seek to recover medical monitoring costs. In the last two years, federal and state courts have issued over 40 decisions involving medical monitoring. Attorneys Christine G. Rolph, Valerie E. Torres and Elizabeth A. McCrillis examine two trends that have emerged.The 2009 Proxy Season and the Year of Investor Anger
After the pop of the telecom bubble at roughly the same time as Enron and other corporate scandals surfaced at the beginning of the decade, there was a surge in shareholder proposals related to corporate governance, from 88 in 2000 to 427 in 2003. The financial crisis of 2008 will almost certainly lead to a similar tsunami of shareholder proposals in the 2009 proxy season, say attorneys Charles Nathan and Dennis Craythorn.After Andersen, Shred at Your Own Risk
After the Supreme Court's recent ruling in the Arthur Andersen case, document handling remains an "overwhelming" issue for in-house counsel, says Michael Kraft, GC and co-founder of Kraft Kennedy & Lesser Inc. "Be careful," he warns. The Andersen decision "doesn't relieve the GC or the company from the responsibility of following appropriate retention policies."Program Aids Merchants Facing Eviction
COOPERATION among private lawyers, the Legal Aid Society and the New York City Civil Court will soon benefit small businesses in lower Manhattan facing eviction as the result of losses after the Sept. 11 attacks.Trending Stories
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