Identity Theft E-mails And How To Protect Yourself
Posted on January 29, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Identity theft is fast becoming on of the top threats consumers face today. With more folks using the internet and email each year, scammers are taking to the cyber-waves in an effort to take your identity and your hard earned cash.
So what can you do to protect yourself? Knowledge is your best weapon of defense. Knowing what to look for and what to avoid can help you steer clear of trouble.
Here are some tips for avoiding scam emails, also know as phishing emails:
Read More..>>What Every Employee Should Know About Non-compete-non-solicitation Contracts
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A non-compete contract is an agreement signed by an employee where he or she agrees that they will not engage in certain employment within a certain geographic area for a certain period of time after they quit or are fired. Likewise, a non-solicitation contract binds the employee not to contact the employer’s customers or remaining employees under the same conditions. These restrictive contracts have become more prevalent in Michigan, especially in the technology sector where companies believe they have legitimate business interests that need to be protected.
Read More..>>Hazardous Trees And The Duty To Inspect
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Trees can be a nuisance.
Common Law recognizes two types of nuisance: public nuisance and private nuisance. A public nuisance is defined as an unlawful act or omission, which endangers the safety or comfort of the public. Examples of public nuisance include obstructing a highway, keeping a common gaming house or selling unwholesome provisions. On the other hand, there are two types of private nuisance. The first involves any wrongful disturbance of an easement or other right in respect of land. The second, by far the most common, involves the act of wrongfully causing or allowing the escape of injurious things onto another person’s land such as, for example, water, smoke, smells, fumes, gas, noise, heat, electricity, vibrations, animals and vegetation.
Read More..>>Do-it-yourself Last Will And Testaments
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Keeping your affairs in order after you have passed on may be the greatest service you can do for your family and the last will and testament is there to make sure you do just that. Having a last will and testament will leave specific instructions as to the distribution of your assets to settle your family’s financial security. Filling out legal documents can be a bit difficult and confusing, but the age of information has come up with solutions to writing your last will and testament faster and easier.
Downloaded will and testament forms
Read More..>>Personal Injury Lawyer Is A Friend In Need
Posted on January 28, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
A victim of an accident or other mishap must get the legal representation of a personal injury lawyer in New York City in order to help him or her file the appropriate personal injury lawsuit against the person who caused the accident. If you have been victimized by the negligent conduct of another, getting the services of a personal injury lawyer in New York City must be one of your primary concerns.
Read More..>>Setting Up A Solid Medical Malpractice Claim
Posted on January 28, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
People usually look up to doctors and nurses because of the reputation they cultivated of alleviating the pain and suffering of their patients. Doctors and nurses are guided by medical procedures developed by international experts and specialists. They are own competence develop through experience as they mature in their profession.
Alas, these medical practitioners are but human, imperfect and erring. Given the tremendous trust people give them, however, once something goes wrong in their execution of medical procedures and their patient suffers from it, it opens a controversial issue of medical malpractice.
Read More..>>Asset Protection For Doctors
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Asset Protection for Surgeons or How to Say No to Ambulance Chasers
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, approximately one-half of all medical malpractice lawsuits are filed against surgeons,
[1] even though surgeons represent 14.5% of all practicing physicians.
[2] Surgeons, particularly plastic surgeons, are perceived by plaintiffs’ attorneys as desirable litigation targets as they earn on a nationwide average double what general practitioners earn.
[3] Higher earnings lead to greater wealth, and plastic surgeons find themselves facing numerous malpractice lawsuits. The vast majority of these lawsuits are frivolous (a plaintiff succeeds in only 1 out of every 4 medical malpractice lawsuits),
Read More..>>A Calamity Of Justice - The Genarlow Wilson Case
Posted on January 28, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Is it possible for a 17-year-old to go to jail for a decade for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old? In the state of Georgia—before they modified the law—the answer was yes. Every once in a while a case comes along that shocks the conscious of most good-natured people, this case I assure you is one of them.
Read More..>>Food Hygiene, You And The Law
Posted on January 28, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
The Law
From the 1st January 2006, new EU legislation came into effect regarding food hygiene regulations. This affects all food business operators who are now required to put into place, implement and maintain procedures based on the seven principles of HACCP.
What is HACCP?
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) is a food safety management system designed to assist food business operators in maintaining hygiene standards, therefore proving that they are complying with the above legislation.
There are seven basic principles of HACCP outlined below that you need to do:
Read More..>>Licensing Your Copyrighted Works
Posted on January 28, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
If you’ve taken the necessary steps to register your copyrighted works, you inevitably will have an opportunity to royalties off of them. To take advantage of the opportunity, you will need to be familiar with copyright license agreements.
Copyright License Agreement
A copyright license agreement sets for the terms under which a third party can use your content. In legal language, you will the “licensor” with the other party being the “licensee.” The purpose of the agreement is to set forth the terms under which you, the licensor, will grant the third party, licensee, the right to use, publish or reuse your copyrighted work in exchange for a royalty. Let’s take a closer look at key components of the licensing agreement.
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