Jeffrey Forbes
Jeffrey Forbes is a blog contributor specializing in risk, legislation, regulations, and casualty topics for ECBM Insurance Brokers and Consultants. He uses his years of experience as a lawyer in Denver, Colorado to provide in-depth analysis of issues faced by our clients and other business owners. To follow Jeffrey's monthly contributions to our blog, be sure to sign up for our newsletter The ECBM Edge.
Prescription painkillers create unique problems in the world of workers compensation. Doctors in all fields have grown more aware of the issues created by prescribing potentially addictive ...
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A lot can happen in the early part of an insurance company’s handling of a claim. The insurer must often begin its own investigation of a claim at the same time it prepares to defend itself ...
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The Food and Drug Administration’s new rule on Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food starts to take effect in mere months for those carriers that do not qualify as small ...
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Hardly a day goes by in the current news cycle without some new cyber-security story breaking. The end of 2016 included a disclosure of 500 million hacked Yahoo! email accounts, concerns ...
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Indemnification clauses in commercial contracts can present a number of potential issues. When the parties to the contract do not properly think through or write out indemnification ...
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In May 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a new regulation that significantly changed the reporting of workplace injuries by requiring certain ...
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Business contracts often involve painstaking negotiations over contract clauses related to performance and price. Given the care and time spent on these major clauses, it can be relatively ...
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Lots of people these days are talking about cybersecurity. To many people, this conjures images of hackers delving deep into computer code to unearth and exploit systematic weaknesses. The ...
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Lawsuits have become long and costly for many businesses. The average civil case now takes about two years to go trial. Pre-trial litigation issues can often extend the timeline for cases ...
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2016 has been a big year for autonomous vehicles. On the positive side, Uber introduced driverless cars in Pittsburgh while Tesla and Google continued road testing their driverless cars in ...
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