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Is there one insurance policy to cover all of my risks? No.  Insurance is the sale of certain risks in exchange for a premium.  No policy buys all the risks a business faces. How many policies do I need? Generally speaking, a business should have a general liability policy, coverage for automobiles used in the business and worker's compensation insurance...

As with all community property, retirement assets are subject to division upon dissolution.  Therefore, that portion of any and all retirement assets accumulated during the course of the marriage must be divided. There are three primary categories of retirement assets – IRA (Individual Retirement Account), 401(k) and pension assets.  While the firs...

PHOENIX, Ariz. (Nov.6, 2014) -  Arizona business law firm Jaburg & Wilk's appellate attorney Kathi Sandweiss will be presenting at the State Bar of Arizona's annual 'Working with the Court of Appeals" (WCCA), a CLE taking place on Friday, November 14th at the Hotel Palomar in Phoenix, Arizona from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sandweiss is presenting the f...

Suppose you discover that someone has anonymously posted a statement about you online that's not just harshly critical opinion, it's blatantly false. You are considering filing a defamation lawsuit against the author, but there's a problem-the statement was made anonymously and you have no idea who could have posted it. How can you discover the author's true identi...

You and a friend, family member, or even a spouse, decided to go into business together.  At first, things were great because of the possibilities and the excitement that new challenges bring.  You may have formed a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership or even operated as a sole proprietorship.  If there are only two of you, you mi...

How Might an Amicus Curiae Brief Assist my Organization and its Members? When you think about it, an amicus brief - "friend of the court" is a quite agreeable concept.  As a non-party to the case, with no direct interest in the outcome, you can explain to the court - as a friend, not a litigant - why its ultimate decision has larger ramifications.  Last March, 21...

During the real estate "boom" years, the only time that the word "workout" ever entered the mind of real estate developers and investors, was when they were deciding which posh health club to join, at which they could spend some of the wealth they were accumulating through the rampant escalation of prices of real estate. Now that the real estate market is well into...

Arizona's restaurant scene is buzzing these days with last Friday's  season finale of "Kitchen Nightmares".  Just Google "Amy's Baking Company" and a proliferation of stories about the featured business appears, including a massive social media backlash against the restaurant.  Users of Yelp, Reddit, and Facebook, among others, have taken to the Internet to disc...

Recently, the United States Supreme Court heard argument on the case of United States v. Jones.  At issue is the legality of the Washington, D.C. police surreptitiously - and without a warrant - placing a GPS tracking device on a suspect's car, and then using information taken from the GPS to convict him of drug trafficking.  Nearly all of the judges...

If the Beaver owned a classic 1959 Ford Fairlane, he would not have been insured for UIM benefits under the Cleaver family auto policy.  In Beaver v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company, 234 Ariz. 584, 324 P.3d 870 (App. May 20, 2014),the Arizona Court of Appeals recently held that a policy's definition of an insured is valid under Arizona's Underinsured Mo...