The 12 regional Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) were recently audited by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG). Each of the MAC jurisdictions was found by the OIG to have…
more
/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, Health
A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision refused an attempt to expand the scope of an insurance policy’s arbitration provision, creating the need for extra caution when interpreting policies.
In Ehrenberg v. Allied…
more
/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Bankruptcy, Insurance
Last month, Bloomberg carried an article about a “small but growing trend” of states that are either cutting their individual income taxes or phasing them out entirely.
According to the article, the states adopting these…
more
/ Business Organizations, Taxation
John H. Fisher and his P.C. represented a client in a medical malpractice action filed on February 15, 2019, alleging that the defendant medical providers failed to provide proper prenatal care to the client, causing the…
more
/ Insurance, Professional Malpractice, Real Estate - Residential
As temperatures in the Northeast have made it feel more like winter than spring, it’s only fitting that we begin our April Insurance Update with a case from Alaska. There, the Alaska Supreme Court decides for the first time…
more
/ Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Insurance, Products Liability
23andMe’s recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing has sparked significant concerns over the privacy and security of genetic data belonging to its 15 million customers. Founded in 2006, 23andMe built its business around…
more
/ Bankruptcy, Consumer Protection, Privacy
Few provisions of the Code have a single, clear meaning that leaves no room for interpretation. Even many of those that, on the surface, appear fairly straightforward, are usually open to alternative “understandings.”…
more
/ Business Organizations, Nonprofit Law, Taxation
A Florida jury recently found two laboratory co-owners of Innovative Genomics LLC (“IGX”) not guilty in connection with an allegedly fraudulent COVID-19 testing scheme. The Government alleged that from November 2019 through…
more
/ Criminal Law, Health
The American Dental Association (ADA) has joined a coalition of other healthcare organizations in writing a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer urging the Trump administration to exempt medical and dental…
more
/ Health, International Law & Trade
A parent will sometimes transfer money to a child to enable the child to make an investment that the child could not otherwise make on their own. For example, the child may have identified an attractive business opportunity but…
more
/ Finance & Banking, Taxation, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
We recently discussed increasing state regulation of healthcare mergers and acquisitions in the face of the current Administration’s clear policy of federal deregulation. We noted that 15 states had implemented oversight laws…
more
/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Health, Mergers & Acquisitions
After many years of ups and downs, legal challenges, injunctions and deadline changes, the reporting obligations under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) have disappeared…for most. On Friday, March 21, 2025, the Financial…
more
/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, International Law & Trade
In November 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) published the long-awaited Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance for Nursing Facilities (“Nursing…
more
/ Administrative Law, Health
Will the new administration’s federal deregulation be a boon for private equity investment in healthcare providers, or will the states be the “new sheriff in town”? In the short time he has been in office, President Trump has…
more
/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Health, Mergers & Acquisitions
The owners of a warehouse leased it to a commercial tenant to operate a photography studio. The lease required the tenant to procure insurance for the owners and to indemnify them for the negligent acts of the tenant’s “agents,…
more
/ Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Insurance
