Member Articles

Contact: Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP (Missouri, USA) In recent years, sponsors of many defined benefit (“DB”) pension plans have closed their plans to new entrants. Following such a “soft freeze,” new h ...

Contact: von Briesen & Roper, s.c. (Wisconsin, USA) In Phillips v. Parmelee, 2013 WI 105 (Dec. 27, 2013), the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the validity of a broad asbestos exclusion. ...

Contact: Tony Stumm; Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) In recent years, employee share or option plans have fallen out of favour due to a combined effect of taxation implications for employees and regulato ...

Contact: Bronwyn Clarkson, Karen Brown and Jayne Wambaa; Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) The long-awaited legislation to split and replace the Property Agents and Motor Dealers Act 2000 (Qld) has finally ...

Contact: Rebecca Stevens and Allison Bailey; Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) The Queensland Supreme Court considered an application last month in the matter of Hobbs Haulage Pty Ltd v Zupps Southside Pty Ltd ...

Contact: Glenn Biggs and Allison Haworth; Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) The Queensland Court of Appeal has confirmed that reasonableness of response to risk is to be assessed in the larger context of t ...