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News & Analysis as of May 24, 2013

Business News Digest – November 2012

by Venable LLP on 12/1/2012

In this issue: - SEC Releases Guidance on Shareholder Proposals - Health Care Reform: Large Employers and the New Health Insurance Exchanges - Private Exchanges: You Have Questions, We Have...more

Revision of Earnings Due to Overbilling Supports Fraud Claims

by Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 4/15/2011

Allegations that a medical device manufacturer knowingly overbilled insurance companies and reported these unrecoverable accounts as income were sufficient to support security fraud claims. According to plaintiffs, Zynex...more

IRS Issues Guidance on the Deduction Limitation of Code Section 162(m)(6)

by Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP on 12/29/2010

On December 23, 2010, the Internal Revenue Service issued Notice 2011-2, providing long-awaited guidance on the application of Internal Revenue Code (Code) section 162(m)(6) as added by the Patient Protection and Affordable...more

Scienter Inadequately Pled Under the Standard Set Forth in the PSLRA

by Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 10/11/2010

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana dismissed plaintiff’s securities fraud action against a nationwide health care benefits provider, and its officers and directors, in which plaintiff alleged that...more

Third Circuit Holds That Mixed Present/Future Statements Are Protected By Reform Act Safe Harbor

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 8/30/2010

In In re Aetna, Inc. Securities Litigation, No. 09-2970, 2010 WL 3156560 (3d Cir. Aug. 11, 2010), the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that certain allegedly misleading statements regarding the...more