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Monthly Archives: March 2015

Don’t Forget Copiers, Scanners and Fax Machines in Your Data Security Program

by in Legal, Safety & Security, Technology. Posted March 23, 2015
Current generation multifunction printer/scanner/copier devices are convenient, inexpensive, and very popular. Often overlooked is the fact that most modern printers, copiers, and scanners have many of the same attributes of computers, and are just as vulnerable to the same kind of cyber exploits and attacks as computers. A truly comprehensive data security and privacy risk ...
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Importance of Business Income From Dependent Properties Coverage

by in Insurance & Loss Prevention. Posted March 18, 2015
On February 11, 2014, John Henitz and I spoke on a panel at the @Hospitality_Law 2014 Conference discussing maximizing coverage for large property and business interruption claims. We presented a hypothetical scenario in which Acme Hospitality is a full service Real Estate company that owns several hotels, including one in Galveston, Texas that a hurricane ...
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DOL Issues Final Rule Providing FMLA Rights to All Workers in Legal Same-Sex Marriages

by in Human Resources. Posted March 16, 2015
The Department of Labor issued its Final Rule on Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) rights on February 25, joining the Internal Revenue Service in adopting the “place of celebration”/“state of celebration” test. By virtue of this change, FMLA rights now extend to all workers in legal same-sex marriages regardless of the law of the state ...
Tags Cozen O'Connor FMLA LGBT
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How Does the NLRB’s Ruling on Non-Business Use of Email Affect Your Business?

by in Human Resources. Posted March 4, 2015
As you may have heard, the NLRB recently ruled that employees who are given access to their employer’s email system for their jobs must be permitted to use that email system during nonworking time to engage in protected activity, such as forming a union or discussing terms and conditions of employment. This ruling applies to ...
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Yikes! Ransomware Could Take Over Your Hard Drive

by in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Travel. Posted March 3, 2015
Once data is held for ransom, there’s no guaranteed way to reclaim it — not even payment. Ransomware’s victims typically are those with the least protection. To avoid becoming a target, install strong security tools on your computer and mobile devices, back up data to a reliable cloud service, keep passwords in a secure location, ...
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