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Personal Injury Compensation: What Types of Damages Can I Recover and What Is My Case Worth?

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/01/21

When pursuing personal injury claims in California, there are two main categories of potential compensation: economic damages and non-economic damages.

Ohio Federal Court Rules Business Interruption Coverage Extends to Loss of Use of Property Due to State-Ordered Closures

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/01/21

On January 19, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Eastern Division ruled in Henderson Road Restaurant Systems, Inc. dba Hyde Park Grille, et al. v. Zurich Am. Ins. Co., No.

President Biden’s Inauguration Brings Expected Extensions of Federal Foreclosure and Eviction Moratoria

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/01/21

The inauguration of President Biden on January 20, 2021, and the launch of a new executive administration, brought with it further extensions of the federal moratoria on conducting foreclosures of single-family residential properties and pursing residential evictions due to the ongoing COVID-19 p

The Fierce Urgency for GCs to Promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Response to the Biden Administration & Compliance Best Practices

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/01/21

Joe Biden has now been sworn in as the 46th President of the United States of America.  Within a few hours of taking office, on January 20, 2021, the Biden Administration rescinded former President Trump’s Executive Order 13950, which was issued on September 22, 2020.

The new EU STS framework for on-balance sheet (synthetic) securitisations

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/01/21

On 16 December 2020, the Council of the European Union published final compromise proposals for a package of measures dubbed the “Capital Markets Recovery Package”, these were adopted by the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs on 14 January 2021.

Repeal of McCarran-Ferguson Act — Ramifications for Insurance Clients

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/01/21

Health insurance companies are now no longer immune from antitrust scrutiny for activities previously found to be “the business of insurance.” Last week, the Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act (CHIRA) was enacted, repealing health insurers’ federal antitrust immunity provided by the McCarran

Nigeria's upstream petroleum sector: looking back at 2020 and looking ahead in 2021

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/01/21

We review what happened in Nigeria’s upstream petroleum sector during the previous year – a year that saw a new marginal field bid round, an oil price crash and the onset of a terrible global pandemic.

ASC 606 and Its Impact on the Franchise Industry

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/01/21

Revenue is a key component of all businesses, including franchisors, and it is important that counsel to franchisors have an understanding of the potential effects that accounting changes relating to revenue recognition can have on a franchisor.

Redistricting in California

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/01/21

What Public Agencies Must Know Ahead of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Data Release - After each decennial U.S.

Treasury’s New Bank Secrecy Act Whistleblower Program

By EsqSocial Corporation 26/01/21

In perhaps the last major legislative action under this presidential administration, on New Year’s Day 2021, Congress passed—over President Trump’s veto—what could be the most significant anti-money laundering (AML) statute since the Patriot Act of 2001, as part of the annual National Defense App

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