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The High Price of Skipping Workers’ Comp Insurance

by Dennis Beaver | business, contractor, employees, employment, Workers Comp Insurance, workplace

June 3, 2025 • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, my wife and I are very active 85-year-old semiretired architects. We are still running our own business, but on a greatly reduced basis. We have no full-time employees. Once in a while, if we have to be out of town or if...

Why a Law Firm Secretly Recording Client Conversations Is Wrong (and Illegal)

by Dennis Beaver | attorney, attorney client privilege, clients, consent, employees, lawyers, video

May 20, 2025 • By Dennis Beaver When you meet with your attorney and paralegal, the one thing that you can count on and don’t even give a second thought to is that your conversation will be confidential. Indeed, the attorney-client privilege — confidentiality of...

How Business Owners Can Prepare for a Terminal Diagnosis

by Dennis Beaver | business, employees, estate planning, family, hospice

April 29, 2025 • By Dennis Beaver Business owners, longtime employees, families — we are all caught up in life’s challenges. Things go along more or less the same day after day, and then, out of the blue, come the words no one ever wants to hear: It’s terminal. “So...

His Employees Don’t Work ‘For’ Him, But ‘With’ Him

by Dennis Beaver | attorney, business, dui - drunk driving, employees, lawyers

April 8, 2025 • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, your recent story about the employer who recommended a personal injury law firm to his employees because he liked the firm’s television ads hit a nerve with me. I am involved in something similar that I would like to...

Come to work sick again and you are fired

by Dennis Beaver | employees, employment, medicine, workplace

March 27, 2025 • By Dennis Beaver This is one of the worst flu seasons in many years. A few days ago, infectious specialist “Dr. M” called from NYU Langone and asked that I discuss the risks to co-workers, when someone with a cold or the flu uses over-the-counter...

Why ‘Standard’ Digital Background Checks Can Be So Unreliable

by Dennis Beaver | background checks, employees, technology, workplace

February 17, 2025 • By Dennis Beaver We have all seen news stories about drivers for ride-sharing services who are arrested for sexually assaulting a passenger or committing some other violent crime, and it is revealed that the employee has a lengthy — often recent —...
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