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.
Ransomware continues to be a popular tool among hackers and cyber criminals. By locking users out of their own systems, these cyber criminals can extort significant payments from companies ...
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The Fair Labor Standards Act sets national standards for wage and hour issues related to employees. The law empowers the Department of Labor to set eligibility standards for overtime pay as ...
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The increased ability to use biometric data for a variety of purposes has the potential to improve security and privacy in the cyber world significantly. Voice recognition software, ...
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Trucking regulators at the U.S. Department of Transportation have searched for better ways to enforce to hours of service requirements for quite some time. When electronic logging devices ...
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How much would it cost your business to shut down for a week? How much would it cost your business to shut down for a month? Employees unable to get work done, unable to complete sales ...
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The Americans with Disability Act generally forbids businesses from discriminating against people with disabilities. A key tenet of the law focuses on the concept of accessibility. People ...
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A trend has existed in recent decades increasing the liability of corporate directors for their failures to adequately oversee the companies they are in charge of. Directors and Officers ...
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Trucking companies got terrible news from the Supreme Court recently on the employment practices front. The Court invalidated the use of mandatory arbitration and waiver of class action ...
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High cost for Businesses Misclassification California continues its aggressive moves to protect truck drivers and crack down on misclassification of workers as independent contractors. The ...
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Cyber coverage remains a hot topic in the insurance world. The coverage is relatively new and complicated questions of claims handling are still working their way through the court system ...
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