Author's Note: This article kicks off "Triple Net: A Series on Commercial Leasing by Krieg DeVault" in which members of the Firm's Real Estate & Environmental Practice Group will analyze important issues and provide practical guidance for…
Over the past two years, no fewer than seventeen Indiana banks and credit unions have been targeted with class action lawsuits based on their overdraft fee practices (“Overdraft Cases”), their non-sufficient funds (“NSF”) fee practices (“NSF…
On January 28, 2021, the Indiana Supreme Court affirmed freedom of contract principles and upheld discounts of over thirty percent in the fair market valuation of shares in a dispute over the buyback provision in a shareholder agreement among all of…
Political subdivisions and their agencies occasionally find themselves faced with an emergency public works project. Because time is of the essence during an emergency, it may be difficult, if not impossible, for the political subdivision or agency…
Krieg DeVault is pleased to announce that Partner C. Daniel Motsinger has been named to the 2021 Illinois Super Lawyers listing and Attorney Alexander E. Porter has been named to the 2021 Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars listing – both in the…
As we reported previously, earlier this year, the Indiana Legislature passed House Bill 1004, which created a new law affecting physician noncompete agreements and physician separations codified at Indiana Code 25-22.5-5.5 that went into effect on…
As if to underscore Health and Human Services’ (“HHS”) commitment to electronic medical record interoperability and against information blocking, OCR closed out 2020 with a sweeping number of enforcement actions under its HIPAA Right of Access…
In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the IRS recently released Notice 2021-12, extending temporary relief from certain requirements for qualified low-income housing projects and qualified residential rental projects that was previously…
Within the past two months, there has been a flurry of activity in the cannabis space, including continued litigation over Indiana’s hemp laws,1 the release of Indiana’s 2021 hemp grower/handler application by the Office of Indiana State Chemist &…
On January 14, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States resolved a circuit split by unanimously holding that the “mere retention of property” by a creditor after the time a debtor files its bankruptcy petition does not violate the automatic stay…
Earlier this month, the Office of the Indiana State Chemist (“OISC”) began accepting applications for licenses to commercially grow and process hemp using its new online licensing software (the “Application”). The new Application is live following…
Employment agreements frequently contain restrictions that disallow a departing employee from soliciting former employees and co-workers to join the employee’s new employer. These restrictions are also referred to as “non-poaching” employee…
