Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck, LLP

Iram P. Valentin, KDV Partner and Co-Chair of the Professional Liability practice group, will be a speaker for PLAN's live webinar this Thursday, April 22nd at 1pm ET. Read more and register here: https://www.planattorney.org/webinar/30 #KDVlawLLP #PLAN #professionalliability

KDV is pleased to announce the publication by Data Trace Publishing of Florida Limited Liability Company Forms and Practice Manual by Perry Sofferman, Partner and Chair of KDV’s Corporate and Intellectual Property Practice Group. Read more: https://www.kdvlaw.com//perry-sofferman-provides-explanat/ #kdvlaw #kdvlawllp

Viewpoint: The Employee Retention Credit is a valuable benefit that may well take the place of expiring PPP Loans, written by Arif Virji, our co-managing partner of the San Francisco and Sonoma offices, was published by Restaurant Hospitality last week. The Employee Retention Credit, or ERC, is a tax credit enacted in 2020 under the CARES Act to help businesses keep employees on payroll during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more: https://www.kdvlaw.com//viewpoint-the-employee-retention-/ #kdvlaw #kdvlawllp

We welcome Chad Bickerton who has joined the firm as an insurance coverage litigation partner in Ft. Lauderdale. He represents clients in all phases of first and third-party insurance coverage, construction defect litigation and bad faith, general liability and directors and officers liability matters. https://www.kdvlaw.com//chad-bickerton-joins-kaufman-dolo/ #kdvlaw #kdvlawllp

Has coverage for exploding-vape suits gone up in smoke? PropertyCasualty 360 published this article on the effects of exploding vape pens written by Jonathan Isaacson, our LI partner, and Andrew Lipkowitz, LI attorney. To read more: https://www.kdvlaw.com//has-coverage-for-exploding-vape-s/ #kdvlaw #kdvlawllp #aha

"Supreme Court Strikes Down Part of TCPA." The justices overturned the Ninth Circuit’s broad interpretation of the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS), and held that to qualify as an ATDS a device must have the capacity either to store a telephone number using a random or sequential generator or to produce a telephone number using a random or sequential number generator. Read more here: https://www.kdvlaw.com//supreme-court-strikes-down-part-o/ #kdvlaw #kdvlawllp #tcpa

Join us for a Live Webinar "Cyber - Underwriting & Claims Update" on Wednesday, April 14th at 11am ET. Laura Ruettgers, KDV Partner and Chair of the Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice Group, and esteemed fellow panelists will focus on the current underwriting & claim issues facing the Cyber market. Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/regist/8292511612093600268

Eleventh Circuit Furthers the Current Circuit Split: Finding Lack of Standing in Data Breach Actions Based on Claimed Increased Risk of Identity Theft. A Litigation Alert by Avery A. Dial, our partner and co-deputy chair of KDV’s Data Privacy & Cybersecurity practice group, and Barbara R. Schabert, KDV attorney in Florida. https://www.kdvlaw.com//litigation-alert-another-one-bite/ #databreach #cybersecurity #dataprivacy #kdvlaw

Congratulations to Karol Corbin Walker, our NJ Partner, who was recognized by Super Lawyers for her uncommon conviction as a lawyer. Read more about her historic career: https://www.superlawyers.com//14eb9909-cc05-407e-9ff3-106e #KDVlawLLP

Collateral Deaths From COVID-19 Create Additional Exposure for Nursing Homes and Long-Term Health Care Facilities. A KDV Alert by Aaron Cargain, our Of Counsel in San Francisco, and Charles Kellett, our NJ Attorney. Long-term care facilities and their insurers are already in the midst of defending against lawsuits attributable to COVID-19 and collateral deaths. Read more: https://www.kdvlaw.com//collateral-deaths-from-covid-19-c/ #kdvlaw #kdvlawllp #covid19impact

California Expands Expired COVID-19 Sick Leave Protections Into 2021. A KDV Alert by Barbara L. Harris-Chiang, our SF Partner. On March 19, 2021, SB95 was signed into law requiring California employers with 25 or more employees to provide 80 hours of supplemental paid sick leave to full time employees who averaged at least 40 hours a week in the 2 weeks preceding the date the employee takes leave due to COVID-19. Read more: https://www.kdvlaw.com//california-expands-expired-covid-/ #kdvlaw #kdvlawllp #employmentlaw

"Airline Not Liable for Heightened PAGA Fines in California Wage Case" - Katherine Catlos, Esq., CIPP/US, CIPM, San Francisco Partner, was quoted in SHRM's coverage of the Virgin America PAGA decision. https://www.kdvlaw.com//airline-not-liable-for-heightened/ #california #airline #PAGA #KDVlawLLP

"COVID-19 recovery claims: Can insurance avoid the predictable?" - Louie Castoria, San Francisco Partner, wrote an article on COVID claims that was published in PropertyCasualty360. https://www.kdvlaw.com//covid-19-recovery-claims-can-insu/ #covid #insurance #claims #KDVlawLLP