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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more
A publicly disclosed and widely unpatched zero-day vulnerability, named YellowKey, permits anyone with physical access to a device running Windows 11 or Windows Server 2022/2025 to bypass BitLocker full-disk encryption...more
The U.S. Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (the Departments), along with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, issued a final rule on May 28, 2026, implementing several modifications to the...more
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Blockbuster Video was the dominant competitor in the home video rental market, with a valuation at nearly $3 billion. Unfortunately, the company made a mistake in its market research: it...more
In Fogel v. Shelter Mutual Insurance Co., the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a summary judgment ruling finding that an insurer violated Colorado’s statutory insurance disclosure law by responding to a policy...more
New York’s comparative fault system and a broad serious injury threshold have made motor vehicle accident claims difficult and expensive to defend. Our current system, combined with staged accidents, manufactured injuries and...more
On May 29, HUD issued a request for information (RFI) in the Federal Register, seeking public comment on modernizing FHA’s Minimum Property Requirements (MPRs) for single-family mortgage insurance programs. MPRs require that...more
On May 28, 2026, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury finalized a rule implementing changes to the No Surprises Act's independent dispute resolution process, including new standardized...more
Over the past several years the U.S. government and many state governments have undertaken a sustained series of actions aimed at restricting the legal rights and protections of transgender and non-binary populations....more
Picture if you will a quiet Texas home. It’s unremarkable, cozy, and most importantly for the purposes of this article, insured. All is well at this humble domicile until disaster strikes in one of the many forms that the...more
On June 1, the FDIC OIG published a report containing findings from its review of a state-chartered bank in Chicago that, as previously covered by InfoBytes, was closed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional...more
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) continues to focus on Medicare Advantage (MA) risk adjustment payments, issuing a report this week detailing its audit of MA risk adjustment payments based on acute stroke diagnosis...more
This month’s Friday Five explores the linear relationship between the information that must be exchanged between a claimant and a claims administrator and a court’s subsequent determination of a dispute between the two. The...more
The United Kingdom has opened the road to driverless commercial pilots. On 31 March 2026, the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles ("CCAV") and the Department for Transport ("DfT") published guidance on the...more
Insurance companies should treat recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), privacy, and cybersecurity regulation as more than just policy signals. Regulators are moving toward examination-ready expectations for...more
Following a trend among federal agencies to crack down on alleged fraud in taxpayer-funded federal programs, the Department of Justice ("DOJ") Civil Division announced reforms that aim to leverage a whole-of-government...more
This issue of McDermott Will & Schulte’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for April 2026, including recent enforcement actions involving the False Claims Act (FCA), two favorable Office of...more
For many North Carolina business policyholders, this experience is more than a contractual dispute. It may be evidence of bad faith (i.e., a failure by the insurer to deal fairly and honestly with the very people it...more
If your company manufactures, sells, or distributes any type of commercial good—from toothpaste to furniture to electronics—it almost certainly has liability insurance to protect it from potential product liability suits...more
Governor Abigail Spanberger recently signed HB 1207 (the “Act”), establishing a new paid family and medical leave (PFML) insurance program in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As a result, Virginia will become the 16th state to...more
Anthropic on Tuesday expanded Project Glasswing beyond its roughly 50 initial partners, extending access to a new cohort of approximately 150 organizations in more than 15 countries. The restricted Claude Mythos Preview...more
The US Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services have issued a sweeping final rule (CMS-9897-F) implementing significant changes to the Federal Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) process established...more
In Haire-Cochran v. 24 Restore, Inc., No. A25-1206, 2026 Minn. App. LEXIS 153, the Court of Appeals of Minnesota (Court of Appeals) addressed whether construction work performed after a fire loss to a property constituted an...more
Cyber incidents are now a core business risk, requiring organizations to respond quickly, preserve evidence, meet legal obligations, and protect operations and reputation. In McDonald Hopkins’ recent webinar, “Lifecycle of a...more
Massachusetts AG Andrea Joy Campbell sued UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company, d/b/a UnitedHealthcare Community Plans of Massachusetts, asserting Massachusetts False Claims Act, unjust enrichment, and breach of contract claims...more