Mitigating cybersecurity and data privacy risks A data breach can lead to confidential medical data being exposed, and significant reputational damage, so it is important to have an up-to-date cyber incident response plan. Such a breach may prompt regulatory investigations by multiple government enforcement agencies, collective and class action law suits, and even shareholder class …
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— Sometimes there’s no way to put your feelings into words. Divorce can cast a pretty long shadow over your vision for the future and leave you feeling hopeless. That’s when it’s time to turn to the authors, the poets, and the been-there-survived-it veterans of loss for some uplifting life-after-divorce quotes. While cleverly crafted proverbs …
The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is scheduled to be phased out by the end of 2021, and there is uncertainty about what impact this will have on LIBOR-referenced contracts that extend beyond this date. In this article, Elaina Bales examines the litigation risks that will arise due to the LIBOR changes and what steps business should …
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Article content continued Anova has turned away more than 2,550 amid COVID-19 because of a full shelter, and because people are staying longer than a month because of a lack of housing in London. Megan Walker, head of the London Abused Women’s Centre, said she was seeing girls as young as 12 who had been …
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Redundancies surged to a record high of 370,000 in the third quarter of the year with young workers hit hardest, official figures show. The number of UK employees on payrolls dropped slightly last month and has fallen by 819,000 between February and November due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the Office for National …
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As the hospitality sector begins to count the cost of the latest Tier 3 lockdown, we spoke to one industry figure who says his company will lose £400,000. Stuart Procter, COO of Mayfair hotel and restaurant The Stafford, said the latest blow has left his company reeling in a year he’s already had to make …
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