2019 Blog

The concept of purchasing cyberinsurance to insure against cyber threats seems fairly simple at first glance. Many companies fear the financial costs and reputational harm that often results from a cyber security breach and seek to mitigate these risks through insurance. However, the actual usage of cyber insurance tends to raise a lot of questions,…

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has published online the newest edition of its federal sector Digest of Equal Employment Opportunity Law (EEO Digest), which is now available on the EEOC’s website at https://www.eeoc.gov/federal/digest/vol_2fy19.cfm. The issue is dated Fiscal Year 2019, Volume 2, April 2019. “It is important for our stakeholders to know what…

Florida employers with more than 100 employees are required to file pay data for 2017 and 2018 with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) by September 30, 2019. Technically known as “EEO-1 Component 2” data, it is now required nationally for qualifying EEO-1 filers. The EEO-1 report is a compliance survey mandated by federal statute…

The ‘‘PLANE Act of 2019,’’ short for “Promoting the Launch of Aviation’s Next Era Act of 2019’’ (S.2198), was introduced in the U.S. Senate on July 22 by U.S. Senators James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) and Angus King (I-Maine). Actions within the general aviation industry promoted as part of the PLANE Act include the following: Enhance legal…

The tragic events at the Walmart in El Paso, Texas and the nightlife district in downtown Dayton, Ohio in early August are causing many employers to review their plans for active shooter training. Walmart maintains a mandatory active shooter training program, according to insurance industry reports. Safety training at the giant retailer has evolved from…

As an information security professional with DLD Lawyers, cybersecurity threats often keep me up at night. One of those threats, ransomware, has been receiving a large amount of press lately for claiming public victims in Georgia and our own corporate home state of Florida. Ransomware is a kind of malicious software, or malware, that uses…

From an early age, every child learns some variant of the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is, or should be, the starting benchmark for human interactions. As everyone reading this article knows, however, people are rude, mean, and simply jerks towards one another every day. Oftentimes…

Remember the frustration, the anger even, the last time that you lost a dollar in a vending machine – the clunk of coins followed by silence and suspended disbelief. Did you thump the machine, or even shake it in the hopes that something would break free? Remember that feeling, and then multiply it 4.7 billion…

All interesting and complicated cases involve battles of the experts, persons whose education, experience, skill, and training provides knowledge not within the ken of the common man. For a plaintiff, a skilled expert can illuminate a pathway of causation that is both manifest and clear. For a defendant, a skilled expert can reveal the fallacies…

After a two-year delay, President Trump’s nominee, Janet L. Dhillon, has finally been sworn in as Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in Washington, D.C. Dhillon, 57, was first nominated by President Trump on June 29, 2017, to one of the Republican seats on the Commission. She finally was confirmed by the…