Global, USA | 17 Mar 2022
A status update on US state privacy bills and laws as well as the implications for businesses operating in, or providing services to, the US.
Troutman Pepper | Canada, USA | 10 Jan 2019
Since the European Union (“EU”) adopted Article 29 in 1997, a debate has raged…
Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP | USA | 21 Nov 2017
Legislation was recently introduced in Ohio encouraging businesses to take steps in protecting consumer data. Ohio Senate Bill 220, The Data…
Beveridge & Diamond PC | USA | 25 May 2016
In a case that may make it easier to prove causation in Maryland lead paint cases, the Maryland Court of Appeals held that neither direct evidence of…
Roetzel & Andress | USA | 8 Jan 2016
After hitting a deer, Jerry Dillon (Dillon) and Nancy Dillon filed a claim with their insurer, Farmers Insurance of Columbus, Inc. (Farmers). Farmers…
Beveridge & Diamond PC | USA | 4 Aug 2015
An Ohio federal district court gave E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co. a partial victory in litigation over ammonium perfluorooctanoate ("C-8") drinking…
Bricker & Eckler LLP | USA | 20 Feb 2015
As of this writing, class actions have been filed against Anthem in the federal courts of the Southern District of Ohio, Northern District of Ohio…
Bricker & Eckler LLP | USA | 28 Nov 2014
Akron-based FirstEnergy will discontinue most of its consumer energy efficiency programs after 2014, "ending popular rebates and discounts on Energy…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 13 Oct 2011
To settle its allegations that Reebok lacks scientific proof that its “toning shoes” improve the physiques of those wearing them, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered the shoe company to provide $25 million in refunds to consumers.
Bricker & Eckler LLP | USA | 21 Sep 2011
The Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel (OCC) Governing Board has just accepted the resignation of Janine Migden Ostrander as Ohio's Consumers' Counsel.