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On September 1, 2020, the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (PCHR) will begin enforcing the Wage Equity Ordinance (Ordinance), which prohibits employers in Philadelphia from asking job applicants for their salary history and from using salary history information to set wage rates....By: Ballard Spahr LLP

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy published a statement on 30 July announcing that furloughed employees will receive statutory redundancy pay based on their normal wages, rather than a reduced furlough rate....By: Morgan Lewis

You’ve been in a car accident, and you need medical care now. The question is, who pays for it? New Jersey’s No-Fault Law Under the state’s no-fault law, you’re the one responsible for your own medical bills – not the driver who caused the crash. No-fault laws don’t mean that no one is at fault. […]

A car wreck can bring about some of the most horrific injuries you can suffer. If you (or your loved one) sustained devastating spinal cord damage, a severed limb, or a serious blow to the head, then you already know how drastically a car accident injury can change your life. You were likely rushed straight […]

Patient medical records and how consumers can best preserve them. Do the records belong to the patient or to the doctor or hospital? Why is it important to maintain your own medical records?...By: Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Environmental Tort Class Actions - In what has become a near legal certainty following plant explosions, train wrecks with chemical spills, and other large-scale accidents, plaintiffs often file suit and seek to certify personal injury and property damage classes under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 or state class action laws. Increasingly, class actions are […]