Australia: How can a footballer walk out on an employment contract?

Paddy Ryder has been in the news lately. Not just because of his talent but because of the drama surrounding his recent move from crisis-plagued Essendon to current AFL darling, Port Adelaide.

Ryder’s actions have been of keen interest to football fans and lawyers alike as we try to understand how an employee, in this case a footballer, can be allowed to walk out on a contract mid-term.
Background
In mid-2012, Ryder entered into a four year […]

By | December 7th, 2014 ||

United States: A New Type Of ERISA-Based Hold-Up—The Rise Of Out-Of-Network Provider Suits Against Self-Funded Health Care Plans

Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the number of physicians who have dropped out of Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) and Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) networks and attempted to negotiate their own financial reimbursement with insurance companies and self-funded health care plans related to medical treatment provided to participants whose plan are governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA).

These moves have led to a […]

By | December 5th, 2014 ||

United States: Miami-Dade County Expands Its Human Rights Law To Ban Discrimination On The Basis Of Gender Identity And Gender Expression

On December 2, 2014, Miami-Dade County Commission amended the County’s Human Rights Ordinance (Chapter 11A of the Code of Ordinances of Miami Dade County, Florida) to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and expression.

The new law defines “gender identity” as “a person’s innate, deeply felt psychological identification as a man, woman or some other gender, which may or may not correspond to the sex assigned to them at birth (e.g., the sex listed on […]

By | December 5th, 2014 ||