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Taft Stettinius & Hollister are most popular: within Media, Telecoms, IT and Entertainment topic(s) On Feb. 27, the DOL published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the "Proposed Rule") that clarifies the legal framework used to determine whether a worker is properly classified as an independent contractor versus an employee.

FTC Bans Non-Competes The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 to issue a final rule banning non-competes nationwide for all workers and requiring employers to notify workers that they will not enforce them.

The interpretation of a property insurance policy may seem like a dull endeavor, but courts sometimes face fundamental questions about what words mean, or how we conceptualize cause and effect. In , No. 16-1854 (4th Cir. Oct. 11, 2017), the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals confronted both issues to determine that two exclusions in a builder’s risk policy applied to bar coverage for the collapse of a row house under renovation in Washington, DC.