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Employees continue to jeopardize cybersecurity insurance coverage

Posted on 04/17/2017 at 09:04 AM by John Lande

Lately, this blog has covered a number of cases between insureds and their insurance companies over losses resulting fro...

Categories: Cybersecurity Law, John Lande

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It's official! New amendments to Iowa's OSHA statute dramatically increase civil penalties for violations

Posted on 04/14/2017 at 09:28 AM by Joan Fletcher

Under the 2016 changes to Federal OSHA, any citations issued by Federal OSHA after August 1, 2016 were subject to penalt...

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Joan Fletcher

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Discretionary vs non-discretionary bonuses under the FLSA: What is the difference and why should I care?

Posted on 04/13/2017 at 07:29 AM by Mike Staebell

My last blog explained how under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), certain types of bonus payments to non-exempt empl...

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Mike Staebell, Wage & Hour Watch

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Buyers' beware: The doctrine of merger and non-mandatory disclosures

Posted on 04/10/2017 at 12:00 AM by William Serangeli

Despite growing criticisms that Offers to Buy or Purchase Agreements (“Offers”) are becoming too long and complicated fo...

Categories: Bill Serangeli, Real Estate & Land Use

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Not so fast: CFPB's arbitration rules indefinitely delayed

Posted on 04/05/2017 at 08:34 AM by John Lande

In May 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) proposed new rules that limit financial institutions’ use...

Categories: Banking Law, John Lande

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Insurance companies may have to pay your lawyer for a cybersecurity incident, but not you

Posted on 03/31/2017 at 09:17 AM by John Lande

This blog has covered a number of disputes between insureds and insurance companies resulting from cybersecurity inciden...

Categories: Cybersecurity Law, John Lande

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Is earnest money really important?

Posted on 03/28/2017 at 12:00 AM by William Serangeli

In today’s world of interstate transactions, real estate professionals are often put in the situation of submitting to S...

Categories: Bill Serangeli, Real Estate & Land Use

Tagged As: estate lawyer, estate planning, estate planning attorney, Iowa real estate, Iowa Real Estate & Land Use, Iowa real estate law, Iowa Supreme Court, Kirsterin Development v Garanson Investment, property attorney, property law, purchase agreement, real estate, real estate attorney, real estate attorney near me, real estate law, real estate lawyer, real estate lawyer near me, Union Story Trust and Savings Bank v Sayer

Paying a bonus to your employees can have a hidden cost

Posted on 03/21/2017 at 12:28 PM by Mike Staebell

Have you paid out a year-end bonus to your employees? If so, did you consider the effect the bonus had on overtime pay t...

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Mike Staebell, Wage & Hour Watch

Tagged As: bonus pay, Des Moines employment attorney, discrimination lawyers, DOL Wage and Hour Division, EEOC, eeoc lawyer, employment agreement, employment attorney, employment contract, employment law, employment law attorney, employment legal advice, FLSA, Iowa Employer Law Blog, Iowa employment attorneys, labor lawyers, lawyers specializing in wrongful termination, legal advice, non-discretionary bonus, overtime pay, Wage and Hour, work lawyer

The times they are a-changin': States challenge long-standing sales tax nexus standards

Posted on 03/13/2017 at 01:10 PM by Cody Edwards

At the beginning of this year, the Iowa Department of Revenue (“Department”) announced that Amazon customers located in...

Categories: Cody Edwards, Table SALT, Taxation Law

Tagged As: Amazon, Direct Marketing Association v Brohl, Iowa Table SALT , Iowa Tax, Quill Corp v North Dakota, sales tax

Common collateral monitoring mistakes in ag lending

Posted on 03/10/2017 at 08:00 AM by John Lande

This blog is part of the ongoing series on common agricultural lending mistakes for lenders to avoid. This part focuses...

Categories: John Lande, Real Estate & Land Use

Tagged As: ag lending, balance sheet, borrowers, lenders, monitoring collateral, real estate collateral

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