Employment considerations when purchasing a professional practice*
Purchasing a professional practice can be an exciting time for the purchaser, but it can also be an overwhelmingly complex and time-consuming endeavour if you don’t engage the right people to guide you through the process. There are many important business and legal considerations to keep in mind when considering whether to purchase a practice....
Continue reading the post titled Employment considerations when purchasing a professional practice*A new kind of climate change tax
Faced with the increasingly certain prospect of widespread infrastructure failure related to climate change San Francisco is proposing an interesting new measure—a $12 a year property tax upon property owners. While taxation is not a new tool for battling climate change, this proposed tax is unique in that is aimed wholly at dealing with climate adaptation,...
Continue reading the post titled A new kind of climate change taxScience, proof and causation: when courts and scientists disagree
Bad science should be thrown out of court. When alleged scientific data fails to meet relevant, objective quality standards specifically developed for that kind of data, no one knows whether the claimed result is either reliable or correct. It is fundamentally unfair to punish anyone based on such data.
Continue reading the post titled Science, proof and causation: when courts and scientists disagreeSelling your professional practice?
Employment considerations when selling your professional practice* Whatever the reason might be to sell a professional practice, whether for the purposes of retirement, a change of career, or no longer wanting to be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the business, there are important business and legal considerations to keep in mind. There are...
Continue reading the post titled Selling your professional practice?Depo Provera
The claim period is now passed (March 1, 2022) and no further claims are being accepted. The Claims Administrator is currently analyzing and processing the claims filed. A Notice of Decision will be sent to individuals that filed a claim once the claims analysis is complete. On December 13, 2005, Siskinds filed a class proceeding...
Continue reading the post titled Depo ProveraCantaloupes contaminated with salmonella
Siskinds LLP has commenced a class action in relation to injuries arising from a large outbreak of Salmonella infections caused by contaminated “Malichita” and “Rudy” brand cantaloupes from agricultural company Agropecuaria Malichita S.A de C.V, and a series of recalls associated with the outbreak. Siskinds is working with Slater Vecchio LLP in prosecuting the class...
Continue reading the post titled Cantaloupes contaminated with salmonellaSunscreens Containing Benzene
On July 27, 2021, Siskinds Desmeules, the Quebec firm affiliated with Siskinds LLP, filed an application for authorization to bring a class action against Johnson & Johnson, Johnson & Johnson Inc., Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. and Neutrogena Corporation (“Defendants”). This action was filed on behalf of residents of Quebec who have purchased and/or used...
Continue reading the post titled Sunscreens Containing BenzeneManulife Financial Corporation
Please be advised that the claims process is now complete and all payments have been distributed. This action, which was commenced in July 2009, alleges that Manulife Financial Corporation (“Manulife”) and certain of its current and former officers and directors negligently made misrepresentations relating to Manulife’s risk management practices and policies during the period between...
Continue reading the post titled Manulife Financial CorporationShoppers Drug Mart Inc.
Siskinds LLP and Spiteri & Ursulak LLP have filed a proposed national class action against Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. and Shoppers Drug Mart (London) Limited (“Shoppers”). The proposed class action alleges that Shoppers misclassified its former Associates as independent contractors and terminated their employment without providing them with reasonable notice or pay in lieu thereof....
Continue reading the post titled Shoppers Drug Mart Inc.Precious metals manipulation
Siskinds Desmeules, and Sotos LLP are class counsel in a class action against financial institutions (the “Defendants”) who conspired to fix, raise, decrease, maintain, stabilize, control or enhance unreasonably the price of precious metals and precious metals market related investment instruments, including metal such as gold, silver, platinum and palladium. On January 8, 2021, Siskinds...
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