With the cold temperatures and unusually high snowfall amounts, the number of slip and fall accidents on sidewalks is high in the Tri-State this year. For business owners, this may give rise to the question, “is an injury from a slip and fall my responsibility?” The answer, like most things in the law, is not...Read More

On December 13, 2013, U.S. District Court Judge John Gleeson approved a $5.7 billion settlement between Visa, MasterCard and U.S. merchants over allegations that the two companies were fixing the fees charged to merchants each time customers used their credit or debit cards.  Visa and MasterCard were also accused of preventing merchants from steering customers...Read More

Due to a recent decision by the Indiana Tax Court in Joseph and Jeanne Hutcherson v. Robin L. Ward, Hamilton County Assessor, Indiana taxpayers may petition to correct errors under Indiana Code 6-1.1-15-12 relating to their property tax assessment beyond the former three (3) year limitation period. The Indiana Tax Court itself noted that its...Read More

If you own a company that provides cell phones and/or tablets to its employees, take note:  text messages of your employees are subject to litigation hold notices, too, just like email, files on your computers, and physical files. As was made abundantly clear by the Southern District of Illinois in its recent, lengthy opinion in...Read More

The NLRB recently announced that it will not seek Supreme Court review of two U.S. Court of Appeals decisions invalidating the NLRB’s Notice Posting Rule. The Notice Posting Rule would have required most private sector employers to post a notice in a prominent location explaining to workers their rights to join a union and bargain collectively....Read More

Now that we have started a new year, many have set their new year’s resolutions.  Often these focus on short-term health, relationship, emotional, and spiritual goals.  However, 2014 is a great time to address a long-term financial goal: planning your estate affairs.  Sure, it’s easy to put it off for another day, but, unfortunately, we...Read More

Kahn, Dees, Donovan & Kahn, LLP (KDDK) – an experienced full-service civil law firm dedicated to effectively serving the legal needs of clients for more than 105 years – is pleased to announce that Jeffrey K. Helfrich has been named a Co-Managing Partner effective January 1, 2014. Helfrich has focused his legal practice on business...Read More

All of us know that Americans are spending more time with social networking.  Those aged 18 to 64 who use social networks say they spend an average of 3.2 hours per day doing so, according to new research released by Ipsos Open Thinking Exchange (OTX). The law governing providing notice of a lawsuit to individuals...Read More