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1 Jan 2020, 10:35 am
Scribe for the ABA JCEB Annual Agency Meeting with the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights, Vice Chair of the ABA International Section Life Sciences Committee, past Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group and the ABA RPTE Employee Benefits & Other Compensation Group, Ms. [read post]
1 Jan 2020, 9:16 am
By 2012, nearly half of lawyers were using iPhones, according to the ABA’s annual Legal Technology Survey Report (although 57% of large-firm lawyers still used the BlackBerry). [read post]
18 Dec 2019, 10:03 am
A civil health care fraud lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) in the U.S. [read post]
16 Dec 2019, 3:13 pm
As explained by the Proposed CMP, as amended by the HITECH Act, Section 13410, 42 U.S.C. [read post]
13 Dec 2019, 1:49 pm
Ten former National Football League (NFL) players face prosecution for their alleged roles in a nationwide health care fraud scam that Justice Department prosecutors allegedly defrauded the Gene Upshaw NFL Player Health Reimbursement Account Plan (the “Plan)” by submitting more than $3.9 million in false and fraudulent claims between June 2017 and December 2018. [read post]
12 Dec 2019, 2:40 pm
The order available here resolves a series of complaints filed by the unions that alleged that McDonald’s entities and the franchisees as joint employers: violated Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA by threatening food service employees, promising benefits to them, interrogating them, and surveilling their protected activity violated Section 8(a)(3) and (1) of the NLRA by unlawfully discharging 3 employees and suspending, reducing work hours of, or sending home early 17 others, all… [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 4:02 pm
Scribe for the ABA JCEB Annual Agency Meeting with OCR, Vice Chair of the ABA International Section Life Sciences Committee, past Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group, the ABA RPTE Employee Benefits & Other Compensation Group, Ms. [read post]
7 Dec 2019, 3:31 pm
Notice 2019-9 and the ABA Taxation Section Comments on Section 4960, Notice 2019-9 and Volunteers Providing Services to Tax-Exempt Organizations seem to imply that volunteers (particularly if they are officers who might fall within the definition of an employee) could be hit by the tax if receiving such compensation from a related organization. [read post]
7 Dec 2019, 9:54 am
Scribe for the ABA JCEB Annual Agency Meeting with OCR, Vice Chair of the ABA International Section Life Sciences Committee, past Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group, the ABA RPTE Employee Benefits & Other Compensation Group, Ms. [read post]
18 Nov 2019, 1:54 pm
She also provides strategic and other supports clients in defending litigation as lead strategy counsel, special counsel and as an expert witness. [read post]
12 Nov 2019, 7:26 am
Virginia, Palsgraf) are available; custom orders (perhaps for a litigator friend's proudest victory in court?) [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 5:34 pm
Lanier Technical College, a unit of the Technical College System of Georgia, will pay $53,000 in back pay and compensatory damages and revise its policies and procedures to settle a Justice Department lawsuit alleging the College violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by terminating along-time College employee based on her multiple sclerosis filed in the Northern District Of Georgia on November 4, 2019. [read post]
5 Nov 2019, 3:25 pm
Business owners and leaders of companies caught cheating on employment tax obligations increasingly face prison sentences for allowing their companies to fail to withhold, account for, report and pay over to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) federal income tax, as well as the employees’ share of social security and Medicare taxes (collectively known as FICA taxes) and the employer’s share of FICA taxes in accordance with the Internal Revenue Code (Code). [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 4:36 am
As a member of @ABAesq and chair-elect of one of its sections, I urge the ABA to withdraw this letter and rating and pledge to improve its process of evaluating judicial nominees to ensure the process is fair and impartial. [read post]
24 Oct 2019, 10:40 am
Moreover, the definitions section of E.O. 12892 highlights the breadth of what it means for an Agency’s position to be an “unfair surprise,” as discussed in Christopher v. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 5:14 pm
Health plans and insurers and their service providers should heed as a warning of the potential perils they could face for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security and Breach Notification Rules the just-announced $2.15 million plus civil monetary penalty that Jackson Health System (JHS) paid the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR). [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 11:31 am
Coalition for Responsible Health Policy, its PROJECT COPE: Coalition on Patient Empowerment, and a broad range of other professional and civic organizations including North Texas Healthcare Compliance Association, a founding Board Member and past President of the Alliance for Healthcare Excellence, past Board Member and Board Compliance Committee Chair for the National Kidney Foundation of North Texas; former Board President of the early childhood development intervention agency, The Richardson… [read post]
22 Oct 2019, 3:16 pm
Employer and other retirement plan sponsors, plan administrators and other service providers desiring to use website or other electronic communications to distribute retirement plan disclosures required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) in lieu of the much more expensive and time consuming process of sending volumes of paper documents through the mail or other ERISA-compliant means should share their recommendations and support for a proposed regulation announced… [read post]
25 Sep 2019, 3:58 pm
Employers should keep in mind that employers bear the burden of proof when raising the White Collar or other exemptions as a defense to a minimum wage, overtime, recordkeeping or other FMLA violation.Employers staffing or making use of labor or services provided by employee leasing, temporary staffing, day labor, contractors, or other contingent worker sources also are encouraged to keep in mind the growing aggressiveness by WHD and private litigants in challenging and obtaining… [read post]
17 Sep 2019, 2:16 pm
Seyfarth Partner Erik Weibust was recently named as a co-chair of the Restrictive Covenants/Tortious Interference Subcommittee of the American Bar Association Litigation Section. [read post]
