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Jan 6, 2025 | 
law360.com | Francesco Liberatore
ADVERTISEMENT Don't want ads? Subscribe or login now. By Francesco Liberatore ( January 6, 2025, 4:41 PM EST) -- The automotive and transportation industry faces numerous legal challenges, especially as it navigates new technologies, regulations and global markets in 2025....
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
law360.co.uk | Francesco Liberatore
ADVERTISEMENT Don't want ads? Subscribe or login now. By Francesco Liberatore ( January 6, 2025, 4:41 PM EST) -- The automotive and transportation industry faces numerous legal challenges, especially as it navigates new technologies, regulations and global markets in 2025....
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
squirepattonboggs.com | Kate Kim Tuma |Francesco Liberatore |Rodney Slater |Daniel F. Roules
The automotive and transportation industry faces numerous legal challenges, especially as it navigates new technologies, regulations and global markets in 2025. Here are 10 top legal and policy issues currently affecting the industry and likely to have significant impact in the coming year: 1. Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Regulation As self-driving cars become more common, legal questions arise about liability in accidents, insurance, safety standards and regulatory frameworks.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
squirepattonboggs.com | Francesco Liberatore
We sent an open letter to the European Commission and Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) suggesting useful measures that could be taken under the EU Electronic Communications Code (EECC) to achieve greater harmonization for the EU electronic communications sector. Our comments are based on our extensive experience with the application of the EECC, and four decades of experience with regulations that have shaped this sector across the world.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
solicitorsjournal.com | Martin J. Mackowski |Francesco Liberatore
Recognising the extraordinarily rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and its broad impact across many sectors, regulators in the UK/EU and globally are moving quickly to ensure that the market remains competitive and that the technology is not used by companies to gain an unfair advantage or harm consumers. Below we first examine the key competitive concerns relating to AI and the guidance provided by the cases decided thus far.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Francesco Liberatore
Customer switching data is an important factor that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) considers when assessing the closeness of competition of merging parties. However, as the completed acquisition by Pharmacy2U Limited (Pharmacy2U) of Lloyds Direct demonstrates, switching data can also be determinative when it comes to market definition. Pharmacy2U is a Distance Selling Pharmacy (DSP) that supplies prescription-only medicines (POMs) in England.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Francesco Liberatore
Collaboration is a core value of our firm’s client service. Daily our lawyers with in-depth experience in different practice areas collaborate with each other to find joined-up and multi-faceted solutions to the legal issues facing our clients. This is particularly so in the field of online safety, where several legal regimes overlap. We have already discussed how the application of the new Online Safety Act (“OSA”) will need to align with the UK competition rules (here).
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Francesco Liberatore |David Naylor |Keith Bishop |Danielle Ochs
Miami businessman, Daniel Hurt, the former owner of Fountain Health Services LLC, Verify Health, Landmark Diagnostics, First Choice Laboratory LLC, and Sonoran Desert Pathology Associates LLC, will pay over $27 million to resolve allegations of False Claims Act violations. Hurt allegedly caused his companies to submit false claims to Medicare leading to improper reimbursement. Hurt was also charged criminally for these offenses, to which he pled guilty.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Francesco Liberatore
It promises a lot but received mixed views: the GIA[1] will be fully applicable from 12 November 2025 and only time will tell if it can deliver in creating a regulatory environment for faster, cheaper, and simpler rollout of Gigabit networks, addressing hurdles like expensive and complex procedures for network deployment. This paper provides a summary of the main takeaways.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Francesco Liberatore
The highest court of the EU fined Ireland, Latvia, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia €12.4m in total for not meeting the deadline to transpose the EECC by 21 December 2020.
