The New Jersey Supreme Court recently held in a consolidated appeal that incident reports regarding injuries at healthcare facilities were not protected by Patient Safety Act self-critical analysis privilege when the facilities did not comply with PSA procedures

On July 23, 2023, the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security's (BIS) new rule became effective. The law expands the Export Administration Regulations’ (EAR) Foreign Direct Product rule for Iran, and applicable license requirements.

The law concerns the export of products, regardless of the country of origin, to Iran. This is an additional attempt to curtail the use of U.S. – derived technologies for export, reexport, and in-country transfer to Iran, in response to fears that such technology may be used for weapons systems, including drones, that could target U.S. interests and the interests of key U.S. allies.

The Department of Justice's (DOJ) new Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program, announced in August 2024, is a groundbreaking initiative designed to encourage the reporting of corporate misconduct by offering significant financial incentives. The program will be administered over three years by the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS) and aims to cover crimes that have historically fallen outside the scope of other federal whistleblower programs.

On the heels of a recent decision from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas dismissing state law negligence claims against a broker based on Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act (FAAAA) preemption in Farfan v. Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has now joined the chorus of courts adopting this position by granting a motion to dismiss a broker defendant in a case filed by a plaintiff injured in a motor vehicle accident in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana in September 2021