Pa. Appeals Court Rejects ‘Statutory Employer’ Challenge to $15.5M Worker Injury Verdict | The Legal Intelligencer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2024/08/14/pa-appeals-court-rejects-statutory-employer-challenge-to-15-5m-worker-injury-verdict/ Credit: maienter9/Adobe Stock NEWS Mongeluzzi said the panel’s holding on the Statutory Employer Doctrine’s application was fact-specific, but the doctrine itself is under scrutiny beyond this particular case. August 14,…

Enzo BioChem has agreed to a $4.5 million settlement with New Jersey, New York and Connecticut over its alleged deficient data and security safeguards, which led to a 2023 ransomware attack that compromised the personal health data of 2.4 million patients, including about 331,600 New Jersey residents. An investigation into…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s three-year regulatory effort to sharply reduce the use of “forever chemicals” will forge ahead despite the agency’s uphill legal battle, environment law professors and attorneys said this week.   In October 2021, EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced a “Strategic Roadmap” against per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances used…

Litigation, health care, telecom and antitrust practices are among the latest targets for hiring for law firms, including K&L Gates, DLA Piper, Winston & Strawn and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, in their Washington, D.C., offices this week. BCLP hired David Schwartz as a partner in its antitrust and competition practice in…

A divided Missouri appellate panel has upheld a $12 million jury verdict in favor of a Kansas City Southern Railway switchman who was run over by a train in Illinois. The verdict now stands as one of largest railroad injury verdicts in St. Louis County’s history. In a 2-1 ruling,…

Google Faces Patent Infringement Claim Over System to Cool AI Computing Chips | The Recorder Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/therecorder/2024/08/14/google-faces-patent-infringement-claim-over-system-to-cool-ai-computing-chips/ (Credit: lindaparton/Adobe Stock) NEWS San Diego inventor James Hildebrandt claims Google has violated his rights by using his liquid-cooling system to operate data center servers and cloud servers for AI computing.…