Managing Automotive Blog

BMW and two of its subsidiaries will pay $18 million to end allegations from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the carmaker inflated its reported retail sales in the U.S. through misleading disclosures, the agency announced.

California is going all-in on electric vehicles.

Yesterday, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission updated its technical assistance document, What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws. 

Sensors are among the most important parts of a self-driving vehicle.

In a first for the FTC, the Tate Automotive Group, with dealerships in AZ and NM, is being forced to cease business operations as part of a settlement of allegations related to falsification of consumer income.

It’s time to take those autos to the sky.

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act allows eligible employees to take up to two weeks of paid sick leave and up to 12 weeks of expanded family and medical leave – 10 paid – for specified reasons related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On August 24, 2020, the US Department of Labor (DOL) issued Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2020-5 addressing employer obligations for tracking time worked by remote workforces.

Everything is bigger in Texas - or at least they get to be the first to try the autonomous trucks.

On August 13, Mayor Muriel Bowser signed into law the “Protecting Businesses and Workers from COVID-19 Emergency Amendment Act of 2020.”

In addition to battling class certification, businesses swept into these class actions may be faced with consolidation motions in multidistrict forums.

Arent Fox Automotive leader Aaron Jacoby discusses his former partner, Doug Emhoff, with the New York Times and Law360.

This is our fifth and final Alert on Virginia’s groundbreaking emergency, temporary COVID-19 workplace safety standard. 

The Federal Trade Commission recently filed a lawsuit against Traffic Jam Events, LLC and its owner, David J. Jeansonne to halt an alleged scheme to deceive consumers with mailers supposedly directing them how to obtain federal COVID-19 stimulus benefits, which instead lured them to a used car sale.

On July 30, 2020, the FTC announced two new staff reports which highlight some of the alleged challenges and confusion consumers claim they face in buying and financing a car, particularly relating to charges for add-on items after the initial price negotiation.

Arent Fox is counseling clients on the business loan programs included in the CARES Act.

The House on Wednesday agreed to extend for five weeks a popular pandemic relief loan program for small businesses, sending President Trump legislation to give companies more time to apply for federal help under an initiative created by the stimulus law.

On June 17, 2020, the US Small Business Administration (SBA), in consultation with the Department of the Treasury, published a new PPP Loan Forgiveness Application Form 3508EZ (EZ Forgiveness Application), which requires fewer calculations and less documentation for eligible borrowers.

Arent Fox Automotive Group leader Aaron Jacoby has been named among the Top 100 Attorneys in California by the Daily Journal.

And people said retail shopping was dead ….

With the economy reopening, on June 11, 2020, the EEOC updated its COVID-19 Technical Assistance Publication — What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws — to identify concerns that employers may face as they plan for employees to return to the workpl

Many states and localities have issued stay-at-home orders, and have closed on-site business operations to all but essential businesses and their employees. To enable employers to navigate those restrictions, we provide below a brief description of each state’s and the District of Columbia’s stay-at

On Friday, June 5 President Trump signed the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020 (PPP Flexibility Act) into law.

The Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020 removes the CARES Act provision that disallows employers who obtain forgiveness of a PPP loan from deferring the employer portion of Social Security taxes until December 31, 2021 (one-half) and December 31, 2022 (one-half).

Congressional Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York has introduced a bill, H.R. 7011, titled the Pandemic Risk Insurance Act of 2020 (the Act).