What is the Risk? As businesses begin to reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic, many leaders are rightfully concerned about the potential civil liability that businesses and non-profit organizations may face as they start inviting employees and customers back into workspaces and shops. Will insurance policies provide coverage if the business is sued by its employees or customers for COVID-19 related…
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2019 Federal Grant Brings Howard Street Tunnel One Step Closer to Transporting Double Stacked Containers through Baltimore
Years of persistence by the Hogan administration have finally paid off, resulting in a grant of $125 million of federal funding through the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America Grant Program (INFRA) administered by the U.S. Department of Transportation. This funding...
Employment Retaliation Suit Results in Jury Verdict for G&W Client
Frank Gorman and Ryan Burch successfully defended an employer in an employment retaliation suit before a jury in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Burke v. Women’s Surgery Center, et al. The trial lasted seven days, and the jury deliberated for approximately an hour and an half before rendering their verdict. Plaintiff filed a claim with the Montgomery County Office of…
The Net Effect: Electronic Signatures in Commerce
There are now an estimated 400 million Internet users worldwide, with approximately one-third of those users to be in the United States. Since 1995, the year Amazon.com brought electronic commerce to the mainstream, over sixty percent of all Americans have established Internet access. By comparison, it took over thirty years for the telephone to find its way into sixty percent…
Electronic Contracts and Signatures Are Here
The days of paper contracts and ink signatures are waning. Many of us have already entered the world of electronic contracts by purchasing books online and clicking “I agree” to the terms of a software license. But technology and law are rapidly enabling more complicated transactions to be done with electronic contracts and signatures. For centuries, the Statute of Frauds…