Corporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,Attorney General report...
By Greg Hammond, J.D.California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris released a report recently, disclosing the types and extent of data breaches reported to her office since 2012. The report, entitled...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,Disputes over payments for...
By Kayla R. Bryant, J.D.A health care system’s claims against a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan for recouping payments were dismissed in federal court, because the health organization failed to exhaust...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,Webinar reveals mixed news...
By Carol Potaczek, J.D.The good news for employers looking ahead to upcoming filing requirements is that deadlines for Forms 1094-B, 1094-C, 1095-B, and 1095-C have been extended. The less favorable...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,Expert tips to prepare for...
By Jacquelyn Lumb.Panelists at the Practising Law Institute’s conference on corporate governance offered guidance for a successful proxy season, including an update on proxy advisory firm...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,Revised Medicare...
By Harold Bishop, J.D.CMS has revised its Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Recertification Checklist: Rural and Distance or Necessary Provider Verification to include: (1) procedures for determining...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,Hospital limited to federal...
By Harold Bishop, J.D.A system of hospitals was denied recovery of state statutory prompt payment penalties under the terms of its hospital care agreement with a Medicare Advantage (MA) organization....
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,Feeder-fund investor out of...
By Anne Sherry, J.D.Having heard back from the Delaware Supreme Court, the Eleventh Circuit dismissed a claim by an investor in a feeder fund against the master fund's general partners. The Delaware...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,51 more hospitals settle...
By Kayla R. Bryant, J.D.An additional 51 hospitals have settled with the Department of Justice (DOJ) over cardiac devices there were not implanted according to Medicare requirements. Over 500 hospitals...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,Court retires hospitals’...
By Michelle L. Oxman, J.D., LL.M.A federal court in Washington, D.C. rejected a rule challenge brought by 107 hospitals that sought to invalidate a 2005 Final rule that excluded from the calculation of...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,VimpelCom targeted in one of...
By Mark S. Nelson, J.D.The SEC announced a settled court case involving VimpelCom Ltd., the world’s sixth largest telecommunications company, for the firm’s role in the payment of bribes to Uzbekistan...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,Released rule expanding...
By Pamela Wolf, J.D.The long-awaited so-called “persuader rule” that would require certain disclosures related to third-party consultants (including attorneys) used by employers in crafting and...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,OCR aims HIPPA audits at CEs...
By Bryant Storm, J.D.The second phase of audits under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) (P.L. 104-191) Audit Program will focus on the business associates (BAs) of...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,Bill calls for SEC to update...
By Rodney F. Tonkovic, J.D.Representative Matt Cartwright (D-Pa) and Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) have introduced legislation calling for the SEC to update its oil and gas mining industry guides. The...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,Departments address...
By Lauren Bikoff, MLSAt the end of February, the Department of Labor (DOL) and Department of the Treasury requested comments on revisions to the Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) template and...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,Texas hospital compliance...
By Kayla R. Bryant, J.D.Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital, located in Texas, entered into a five-year Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) and settlement agreement with the HHS Office of Inspector General...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,Novartis subsidiaries bribed...
By Amanda Maine, J.D.Novartis AG has agreed to pay $25 million in disgorgement and penalties for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Employees and agents of Chinese subsidiaries of the...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,Stolen laptop costs research...
By Bryant Storm, J.D.Following allegations that Feinstein Institute for Medical Research improperly disclosed research participants’ protected health information (PHI), the research institute agreed to...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,Supreme Court upholds use of...
In a significant decision for class employment litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court has condoned the use of statistical sampling as a means of establishing liability for unpaid overtime on a classwide...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,SEC applies new 14a-8(i)(9)...
By John Filar AtwoodThe SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance has applied its recently articulated reasoning under Rule 14a-8(i)(9) to allow Illumina Inc. to omit a shareholder proposal from its 2016...
View ArticleCorporate Counsel News - Trends and Developments,FDA proposes ban on most...
By Harold Bishop, J.D.The FDA is proposing to ban powdered surgeon’s gloves, powdered patient examination gloves, and absorbable powder for lubricating a surgeon’s glove. Based on an evaluation of all...
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