Following up on our recent alerts regarding the New York legislature’s newest insurance disclosure requirements under CPLR 3101(f), the amended text of Senate Bill S7882 has now passed committee and is waiting for the floor calendar before being presented to the Senate and Assembly. If passed and then signed by the Governor, the amended bill would differ from the prior version in several key ways.

Phoenix Partner and Co-Chair of Lewis Brisbois’ Transportation Practice Julie E. Maurer and Partner Andrew Kleiner recently defeated a motion to remand to state court on behalf of an interstate moving company when the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut found removal was proper because the Carmack Amendment completely preempted the plaintiff’s state law claims arising out of an interstate household goods move.

Across the United States, an increasing number of low impact collisions are ending up in litigation, with plaintiffs frequently alleging in excess of $50,000 in past medical expenses and often with surgical recommendations. Claims that used to have an emergency room visit and a little chiropractic treatment now have multiple epidural steroid injections, MRIs, and spinal fusion surgery recommendations.

A group of minor league baseball teams have filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan against Major League Baseball (MLB) in a pitch to end a nearly century-old antitrust exemption first granted by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1922.

On January 13, 2022, the United States Supreme Court issued two important rulings. It barred enforcement of the COVID-19 vaccination-or-testing mandate for large businesses adopted by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), but endorsed a separate federal vaccine requirement for healthcare facilities.

On January 26, 2022, New York’s newly expanded whistleblower protections will go into effect, creating substantial potential liability for employers.

Colorado recently became the first state to criminalize the use of void non-compete agreements. The law goes into effect on March 1, 2022 and makes it a class A misdemeanor for employers to implement void restrictive covenants.

New Mexico saw significant changes in employment law in 2021. It increased the statewide minimum wage, passed legislation requiring paid sick leave, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision that impacts how employers must compensate for the time it takes employees to start up a computer and launch certain software before they can clock-in, deeming that time integral to the job and therefore compensable.

The New York Court of Appeals’ decision in Aybar v. Aybar, 2021 N.Y. Slip Op. 05393, issued on October 7, 2021, overturned over 100 years of precedent in ruling that foreign corporations are no longer subject to being dragged into lawsuits in New York State court under the theory of "consent by registration."

There were several important developments in labor and employment law last year in the State of Florida, including changes to the minimum wage, new hire reporting obligations, and COVID-19 vaccine-related legislation. Below is a summary of these key changes.