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Everyone there will have moved here! An overview of the US Federal and Puerto Rican tax incentives for bona fide residents of Puerto Rico

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • Puerto Rico, USA
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  • April 9 2013

The play West Side Story focuses on the challenges occasioned by the mid-twentieth century migration of significant numbers of Puerto Rican families

IRS sets deadline for transfers from dual-qualified to Puerto Rico-only qualified plans

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Puerto Rico, USA
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  • August 5 2008

Transfers from dual-qualified plans to Puerto Rico-only qualified plans must be made before January 1, 2011, to avoid qualification and tax problems

More than a year in the making -- DOD issues final rules for specialty metals; new rules are no less complicated

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • Puerto Rico, USA
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  • October 5 2009

In July 2008, DOD proposed revisions to the specialty metals rules, hoping finally to calm the turbulence that has boiled up over the past three years in this area

Puerto Rico revises sweepstakes regulations

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • Puerto Rico
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  • October 28 2009

On October 27, 2010, Puerto Rico’s Department of Consumer Affairs released new regulations governing the promotion of sweepstakes in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Sweepstakes Regulation revised

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • Puerto Rico
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  • October 28 2009

Luis G. Rivera Marín, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s Department of Consumer Affairs (DACO), this week announced the enactment of the country’s revised Sweepstakes and Games of Chance Regulation, effective Nov. 27, 2009

TMTV Corporation v. Mass Productions, Inc

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
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  • Puerto Rico, USA
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  • April 8 2009

The United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico held that pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 60(b)(5), the defendants in a copyright infringement case based on the unauthorized production of infringing derivative works aired via television were able to credit the settlement award sum paid to the plaintiff in a prior copyright case arising from the same injury from the damages set by the jury in the current case

Sweepstakes and gift card update

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
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  • Puerto Rico, USA
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  • December 10 2009

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Department of Consumer Affairs approved a new set of sweepstakes regulations that will significantly ease the ability of marketers to advance their promotions within the Commonwealth

Puerto Rico federal court examines issues of bad faith (“dolo”) and consequential damages in insurance coverage disputes

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • Puerto Rico
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  • August 26 2008

The Federal District Court for the District of Puerto Rico recently issued a 58-page decision on post-trial motions in which it extensively discussed Puerto Rico law concerning insurer bad faith and consequential damages in the context of an alleged bad faith denial of coverage

First Circuit addresses Puerto Rico law on impact of insured’s breach of warranty

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • Puerto Rico, USA
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  • August 27 2008

The First Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that, under Puerto Rico law, a breach of warranty excuses a maritime insurer from paying a claim regardless of whether the breach has any causal connection to the loss at issue

No coverage for claim made outside policy period shortened by cancellation

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • Puerto Rico
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  • March 5 2010

A federal court in Puerto Rico has held that an insurer had no obligation to provide coverage for a lawsuit that was filed after the date on which its policy had been cancelled