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Huddleston Bolen LLP is proud to partner with the USLAW Network to provide you with the fall/winter issue of the USLAW Magazine. Our firm is the West Virginia representative to this prestigious, international network of law firms.

In 2010, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) announced it had reached a $1,047,110 settlement agreement with Abercrombie & Fitch for numerous deficiencies in the company’s electronic Form I-9 system.

An employer can be liable to an employee for a wrongful termination if a discriminatory supervisor performs an act intended to cause an adverse employment action against the employee, according to the March 1, 2011, decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Staub v. Proctor Hospital. This landmark case potentially widens an employer’s liability to employees who allege discrimination claims.

One of the most frequently litigated issues in the insurance industry is the additional insured and contractual indemnity provisions in the contract. Is the coverage you depend on really in place? USLAW member Rob Noble is a partner at the firm Traub Lieberman Staus & Shrewsberry in New York. He keeps a close watch on this issue and joins us with an update from his perspective.

Huddleston Bolen LLP is proud to partner with the USLAW Network to provide you with the spring/summer issue of the USLAW Magazine. Our firm is the West Virginia representative to this prestigious, international network of law firms.

While employers are often encouraged to adopt Employee Handbooks, some employers may be better off with no handbook than having one that is outdated or improperly managed. To be an effective management tool (rather than a litigation tool for disgruntled employees), handbooks should be reviewed on an annual basis, preferably in conjunction with employee and upper-level management training.

West Virginia, like all other states, provides a mechanism for contractors, subcontractors, and others providing labor or materials on a parcel of property to ensure that they are paid for the labor or material they provide: the mechanic’s lien. State law sets out the procedures under which these various parties may perfect and protect their lien rights.

This is the first in a series of articles on golf, golf travel and “other stuff” related to golf in areas on and off the beaten path.

Within a few hours from most anywhere in West Virginia you can escape the grind and find yourself snow skiing, whitewater rafting, and horseback riding.

I began reading about Bandon Dunes well before it opened in 1999. By the time we managed a trip in the summer of 2000, the first course (Bandon Dunes) was open and 10 holes on the second course.