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2019 ABA Private Target Mergers & Acquisitions Deal Points Study

The Energy Law

The 2019 Private Target Mergers & Acquisitions Deal Points Study was recently released by the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. Copies of the study are available to ABA members on the ABA website, click here. These new data points are flagged for the reader. These new data points are flagged for the reader.

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New Final Regulations Expand the Availability of HRAs

The Energy Law

On June 13, 2019, the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Treasury (the “Departments”), published final regulations which significantly broaden the types of health plans that may be integrated with a health reimbursement arrangement (“HRA”).

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Supreme Court Punts on Important Arbitrability Question

The Energy Law

The Supreme Court’s rare dismissal of a previously granted cert petition means that the justices have declined to reconsider the Fifth Circuit’s decision refusing to send the underlying dispute to arbitration. This is now the second time this case has been before the Supreme Court on issues of arbitrability.

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Louisiana Supreme Court Limits Effect of Collateral Source Rule in Personal Injury Cases

The Energy Law

On May 9, 2019, the Louisiana Supreme Court issued an important opinion restricting application of the collateral source rule in personal injury lawsuits. In Simmons v. Cornerstone Investments, LLC, et al. 2018-CC-0735 (La. Cornerstone Investments, LLC, et al. 2018-CC-0735 (La. Simmons at 3-4. Bozovic Marine, Inc. , 3d 353 (5th Cir.

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Opportunity to Minimize the New Tax on 501(c)(3) Exempt Organization Employee Parking

The Energy Law

Though EOs have until May 15, 2019 to file their 2018 returns and remit any taxes owed to the federal government, there is a time-limited opportunity for some EOs to change their parking policy prior to March 31, 2019 and minimize the amount of parking tax owed.

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Main Street Lending Programs

The Energy Law

insured depository institutions, U.S. billion in 2019 annual revenues. The MSLP will support credit flow to small and mid-sized businesses by providing support to businesses that were in good financial standing prior to the COVID-19 crisis. This is a new loan program authorized by the CARES Act. There are no forgiveness provisions.

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Fifth Circuit Identifies Potential Conflict with Supreme Court on Jones Act Seaman Test

The Energy Law

Enterprise Offshore Drilling LLC, 2019 WL 2515307 (Jun. Smart Fabricators of Texas, LLC , 970 F.3d 3d 550, a three-judge panel of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal held on August 14, 2020, that seaman status under the Jones Act may apply to an injured welder on a jack-up oil rig adjacent to an inland pier. 1349(b)(1).

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