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Piercing the Corporate Veil People form business entities to protect their personal assets. They do not want to be personally liable for their business’s debts. However, a business owner’s personal assets can sometimes be seized to pay business debts. This happens when a court reviews “the entire spectrum of relevant facts” and is satisfied that…

If you were a party to a civil lawsuit would you want a jury or a judge to decide your fate? Juries are typically seen as favoring the little guy, usually the plaintiff. But maybe that perception is wrong. Researchers Valerie Hans and Stephanie Albertson found that “beliefs that jurors are highly sympathetic to individual…

Multiemployer defined benefit pension plans face the problem of underfunding. Will there be enough money to pay pensioners the benefits they’ve been promised? Such pension funds are insured through the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, but only minimally. In the 1970’s Congress enacted ERISA and made union employers quasi-insurers of the continued viability of defined benefit…

The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Universal Health Services v. Escobar will likely expand liability under the False Claims Act, meaning the potential for more qui tam lawsuits. The case concerned how the failure to disclose noncompliance with statutory, regulatory or contractual requirements might create liability under the False Claims Act. The full opinion is…

Over the past few years, there have been a growing number of lawsuits brought by current or former interns. In these lawsuits, the interns charge that their employers violated wage and hour laws by failing to classify them as employees and pay them the minimum wage for the work they performed. This issue garnered significant…