On May 12, 2025, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (H) Working Group released a Request for Information (RFI), signaling that it may draft a model law to regulate…
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/ Civil Rights, Insurance, Science, Computers, & Technology
In early 2023, the US Copyright Office (CO) initiated an examination of copyright law and policy issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI), including the scope of copyright in AI-generated works and the use of copyrighted…
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/ Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Addressing the distinction between conception and reduction to practice and the requirement for written description in the unpredictable arts, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit explained that proof of conception of…
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/ Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
It’s getting hot outside, which means that the summer regulatory season is almost upon us. In June or July, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will release proposed regs impacting Medicare payments in calendar…
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/ Administrative Law, Elections & Politics, Health
In January 2025, The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) filed a complaint against the US Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury (the departments) seeking to invalidate the 2024 final regulations under the…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Insurance, Labor & Employment Law
Find this week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick summary…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Health
A sweeping federal tax bill that is currently under consideration in the US House of Representatives contains provisions that would significantly change the administration and enforcement of the Employee Retention Credit (ERC)…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Taxation
On May 20, 2025, Washington Governor Bob Ferguson signed into law Senate Bill (SB) 5814, a sweeping tax bill that expands Washington’s retail sales and use tax to digital advertising services and a range of high-tech and IT…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Science, Computers, & Technology, Taxation
Check out our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for May 2, 2025 – May 13, 2025.
IRS GUIDANCE -
May 2, 2025: The IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2025-20, providing guidance…
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/ Administrative Law, Taxation
MAHA and More Medicaid -
Late Sunday night, May 18, 2025, the House Budget Committee voted to advance the reconciliation package drafted by the Energy and Commerce Committee and Ways and Means Committee last week. The four…
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/ Administrative Law, Elections & Politics, Health
Trending in Telehealth highlights monthly state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Privacy
Below is a tracker of healthcare-related executive orders (EOs) issued by the Trump administration, including overviews of each EO and the date each EO was signed. We will regularly update this tracker as additional EOs are…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
THIS WEEK’S DOSE -
- Key House Health Committees Advance Reconciliation, Bill Held Up in Budget Committee. The Energy and Commerce Committee and Ways and Means Committee passed their recommendations for reconciliation out of…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Health, Taxation
On May 13, 2025, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) issued a long-awaited decision (EnVR 83/20) on the question of whether an energy grid can be classified as an unregulated “customer installation” (Kundenanlage). In the…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, International Law & Trade
In April 2025, McDermott once again hosted its annual European Health & Life Sciences Symposium at the Shangri-La hotel in Paris. Attended by some 300 delegates from across the industry, participants including investors,…
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/ Finance & Banking, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
