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This month’s Friday Five explores recent decisions including the standard of review for ERISA benefit denials, whether structural conflict entitles a claimant to conflict-of-interest discovery, whether a “relative value units” analysis warrants equitable tolling, whether the administrative record...
Harrisburg (January 9, 2025) - Saul Ewing LLP announced today that Matthew M. Haar, Managing Partner of the firm’s Harrisburg office, has been named to Attorney General-Elect Dave Sunday’s Transition Team to serve on the Civil Law Committee. Each committee will be asked to engage with stakeholders...
January 7, 2025 - Saul Ewing LLP has received a score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s (HRCF) 2025 Corporate Equality Index, the nation’s foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality. Saul Ewing joins the 765...
(PHILADELPHIA, January 7, 2025) - Saul Ewing LLP announced today that it has elected eight attorneys to the firm’s partnership and promoted seven attorneys to counsel, all effective January 1, 2025. The new partners are: Blaine R. Feinauer Based in Chesterbrook, Blaine is a member of the firm’s...
December 2024 was an active month for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), Office for Civil Rights ("OCR"). OCR announced (i) a $1.19 million civil monetary penalty ("CMP") against Gulf Coast Pain Consultants, LLC d/b/a Clearway Pain Solutions Institute ("GCPC"); (ii) $548,265...
President Biden has signed the Stop Campus Hazing Act (the “Act”) into law. The Act, the first federal anti-hazing law, is the result of a bi-partisan effort and comes after several years of patchwork efforts to address hazing at colleges and universities at the state level, which resulted in the...
Saul Ewing LLP, a full-service national law firm, is proud to announce that Managing Partner Jason M. St. John was selected as one of The Daily Record’s Power 100 honorees. The Power 100 List for 2024 showcases Maryland's power players who are leading key organizations, creating change, impacting...
The CTA madness continues. On December 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the "Fifth Circuit"), in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop v. Garland ("Texas Top Cop Shop"), stayed the enforcement of an injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas...
On December 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (“Fifth Circuit”) granted the U.S. Government’s motion to stay the nationwide preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (“District Court”) on December 3, 2024, which temporarily halted...
BOSTON, (December 16, 2024)– Saul Ewing LLP today announced it has secured a $1.1 million settlement on behalf of Carlo DeMaria, Mayor of the City of Everett, Mass., in his defamation lawsuit against the Everett Leader Herald, its owner, and its publisher and editor. Saul Ewing Partners Jeffrey S...
This month’s Friday Five explores recent decisions including the impact of a COVID furlough on eligibility for LTD benefits, what constitutes a breach of an employer’s fiduciary duty, what defines total proof of disability or is viewed as a severe procedural violation, and the appropriate weight...
Philadelphia (December 4, 2024) - Saul Ewing LLP announced today that James S. Gkonos, Counsel in the firm’s Insurance Practice, has been appointed Chairman and President of the Federation of Regulatory Counsel (FORC), the premier organization for attorneys who practice insurance regulatory law in...
Saul Ewing LLP, a full-service national law firm, today announced that attorneys from the firm were named to the 2024 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists. Recognition is based on research conducted by Super Lawyers along with peer review. Richard A. Forsten was named to the Delaware Super Lawyers...
Change in Washington, D.C. looms in light of the results of the recent presidential election. Institutions of higher education are asking what they can expect in the short term from the exiting Biden administration, and how policy and regulatory changes brought in by the incoming Trump...