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Healthcare Legal News - August 15, 2012 • Volume 2, Number 7

In This Issue: - Recent Cases Deal With Impact Of Termination Of Employed Physicians - Reimbursement News: Happy New Year!: Increase In Payments To Hospital Outpatient Departments and Ambulatory Surgical Centers -...more

2011 — The Year of The Breach: Consumers, companies, insurers, and legislators stake out positions after rash of data breaches

Originally Published in Insurance Law360. In the first seven months of 2011, a number of companies and institutions have reported large-scale data breaches. The causes of the breaches range from misplacement of data by...more

Motor insurers avoid fines as OFT investigates data exchange

Seven of the largest insurance companies and two IT software and service providers have avoided fines and agreed to limit the data that they exchange between them following an investigation by the OFT into the...more

FTC Chair Calls for Ban to Pay-For-Delay Settlements

On January 13, 2010, the Federal Trade Commission released a study critical of “pay-for-delay” patent litigation settlements by which brand-name drug companies pay generic competitors to keep generic drugs off the market. The...more