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Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.
The Federal Trade Commission ('FTC') labored a dozen years to revise its Franchise Rule ' only to give birth to a mouse.
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While franchise lawyers, both domestically and in foreign jurisdictions, tend to focus their primary attention on matters of importance that are specific to franchise relationships, most are keenly aware that franchising is essentially just a form of distribution. Therefore, laws and regulations of broader impact can often be of critical importance. While distribution systems may often escape the applicability of franchise laws, franchise relationships nevertheless often have to deal with those affecting distribution generally.
In a recent development in the ongoing reinterpretation of the accounting standard for commercial leases by the International Accounting Standards Board ('IASB') and the Financial Accounting Standards Board ('FASB'), The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association ('ELFA') has announced that six equipment finance representative associations from around the world have signed a joint communication seeking to have them play an instrumental and constructive role in the process. The joint communication by the ELFA, the UK Finance and Leasing Association, Leaseurope, the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association, the Australian Finance Conference, and the Canadian Finance & Leasing Association set forth 11 key principles that should be addressed as the IASB and FASB proceed with deliberations toward a single, efficient global leasing standard.
Highlights of the latest equipment leasing news from around the country.
In today's litigious environment, physicians consistently struggle with rising malpractice premiums. For those inclined to stop reading here, this article will not attempt to rehash the contentious debate over why malpractice premiums continue to rise. Rather, we want to discuss a fairly new and rapidly growing problem for physicians: personal liability for excess verdicts.