Feb 24
The FBI has issued a warning for increasing levels of a type of fraud known as “business email compromises” that target companies that regularly wire funds to foreign third parties. In this scheme, an accounting officer is targeted with an email that appears to be originating from a company executive. In fact, upon closer inspection …
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Feb 20
Recently the government sent out Form 1095-A to Obamacare participants. However it appears that an error reported in the forms mailed out will need to be corrected. As a result, affected taxpayers are requested to wait until they get corrected forms before filing. The blog at healthcare.gov reads: “If you enrolled in a plan through …
Permanent link to this article: https://betweenthenumbers.net/2015/02/government-typo-will-require-certain-taxpayer-to-delay-filing/
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Feb 17
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) announced that over 500 new generic top-level domains (“gTLDs”) have now been introduced into the Internet. The milestone 500th gTLD was .NTT, which represents Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. New domains are rolling out at an average of one per day. ICANN has described its current process as the “Internet’s …
Permanent link to this article: https://betweenthenumbers.net/2015/02/internet-real-estate-continues-to-evolve-with-new-gtlds/
Feb 16
In National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh Pa. v. Tokio Marine and Nichido Fire Insurance Co., the California Court of Appeal in the Second District held that a subsequent indemnity coverage action by an insurer may include expert opinions not presented by the original plaintiff’s experts in the underlying dispute.The underlying plaintiff settled with Costco …
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Feb 19
New Standard of Value for Appraisal under Louisiana Law
February 19, 2015
Louisiana has changed the applicable standard of value in its new Louisiana Business Corporations Act. Under the law, shareholders have a right to avoid the effects of certain corporate actions by selling the shareholder’s shares to the corporation, paid in cash. Under certain circumstances more fully described in the bill, shareholders have such rights in …
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