The Week in Weed: January 17, 2025

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world…

Suit-Limitation Clauses in Insurance Policies| Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog

Few things send shivers down a policyholder’s spine faster than discovering that an otherwise valid claim…

Here’s how cancer patients on Medicare can save money on treatments

A new Medicare program caps the cost of expensive drugs By Mark Huffman of ConsumerAffairs April…

Insurance Coverage After a Raze Order

When a devastating fire damages a building and a municipality orders it razed, the instinctive reaction…

Grading your degradability claims: The latest for green marketers

Golf tees, food containers, paper plates, shopping bags, additives for plastics, and rebar caps to prevent…

Watch what you’re doing with time-barred debts

Of course, people are responsible for their debts.  However, at a certain point, how much time…

New York Employers Beware: Claimant Must Sign Confidentiality Preference Acknowledgement for Employer to Enforce Entire Settlement Agreement

Seyfarth Synopsis: On January 8, 2025, a New York federal court held that an employee’s refusal…

When Hospitals Ditch Medicare Advantage Plans, Thousands of Members Get To Leave, Too

For several years, Fred Neary had been seeing five doctors at the Baylor Scott & White…

Insurance Coverage After a Raze Order: Strategies for Overcoming Ordinance or Law Exclusions

When a devastating fire damages a building and a municipality orders it razed, the instinctive reaction…

Double duty? | Federal Trade Commission

Sometimes it’s great to put stuff to more than one use.  Think the versatile Swiss Army…

When They Don’t Recognize You Anymore

Paula Span It happened more than a decade ago, but the moment remains with her. Sara…

RFK Jr. Exaggerates Share of Autistic Population With Severe Limitations

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters,…

Company to pay $22 million for offering “free” credit scores that turned out to be not so free

We’ve brought law enforcement actions – dozens of ‘em. We’ve held workshops, issued reports, and sent…

President Trump’s Executive Order Eradicates ‘Gender Ideology’ from Federal Government and Seeks to Dismantle Federal Transgender Protections

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Trump Administration’s new Executive Order on “gender ideology extremism” signals a dramatic shift…

Help prepare your workforce for a weather emergency

June 1st marks the start of hurricane season, but weather emergencies can happen anytime. The FTC…

Another Year in The Books – OSHA’s Top Ten Safety Violations for Fiscal Year 2024

OSHA enforces almost 1,000 standards and tens of thousands of individual regulations related to General Industry,…

FTC consumer protection year in review offers 2020 vision for your business

They say hindsight is 20/20, but what about foresight? We’re not ones to prognosticate, but a…

FTC’s record-setting Do Not Call settlement: 4 tips for business and one candid suggestion

Yesterday’s 10th anniversary of the National Do Not Call Registry was a good time to reflect…

Trump tariffs could raise car prices in Canada but increase selection of cars available in North America

Canadian auto dealers propose opening the market to more countries By James R. Hood of ConsumerAffairs…

President Trump’s Agenda Starts By Eliminating Internal Federal DEI Programs

Seyfarth Synopsis: On Day 1 of President Trump’s new administration, he issued a series of Executive…

Will a $63 million FTC-CFPB settlement encourage Green Tree to turn over a new leaf?

As the name suggests, Green Tree Servicing was supposed to service homeowners’ mortgages by collecting and…

Volvo shifts EX30 production to Belgium to escape tariffs

The move aims to stabilize pricing and boost U.S. availability By Truman Lewis of ConsumerAffairs April…