Corporate compliance starts with good governance at the top

Best practices are higher standards than those set by state law fiduciary duties, federal sentencing guidelines and a maze of other laws including:

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USA, Capital Markets, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Bricker & Eckler LLP, Security (finance), Fiduciary, Holding company, NASDAQ, New York Stock Exchange
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John P. Beavers
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USA
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Bricker & Eckler LLP
Significant case finds that the duty of care requires directors to ask questions

If you are, or have interest in becoming, a director of any organization, you should heed the May 17, 2013, decision in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in Official Comm. Of Unsecured Creditors ex rel. Lemington Home for the Aged, (the Lemington Home Case). The Lemington Home Case upheld a jury’s award to the plaintiff creditors’ committee of

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USA, Pennsylvania, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Bricker & Eckler LLP, Corporate governance, Punitive damages, Duty of care
Authors:
John P. Beavers
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USA
Firm:
Bricker & Eckler LLP