You may recall that earlier this year the IRS launched an initiative to pursue 125,000 “high-income, high-wealth” taxpayers who have not filed taxes since 2017. These were cases where the IRS received third party information…
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/ Constitutional Law, International Law & Trade, Taxation
Three Connecticut dental practices, together with their owners, have agreed with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut to pay $1.7 million to settle allegations that the practices violated federal and…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Criminal Law, Health
On August 23, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) announced changes to its 340B Drug Pricing Program discount available to disproportionate share hospital (DSH) Covered Entities on purchases of two of J&J’s most popular drugs, STELARA and…
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/ Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
Most closely held businesses, whether organized as a C or S corporation, LLC or partnership, have (or should have) a buy-sell agreement. A buy-sell agreement addresses what happens to an owner’s interest in the business when the…
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/ Family Law, Insurance, Taxation, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
As far back as I can remember, the end of August has always elicited a sense of dread comparable to what many schoolchildren, and a fair number of adults, experience every Sunday afternoon. In retrospect, I cannot say that this…
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/ Taxation
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas announced on August 20 that National Interventional Radiology Partners PLLC (NIRP) and its founder and CEO will pay $8,884,091 to the United States to resolve alleged…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Health
Merchants Preferred Insurance Company filed a declaratory judgment action in New York seeking a declaration that it had no duty to defend or to indemnify its insureds in an underlying Florida personal injury action arising from…
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/ Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Insurance
Please join us as we discuss the intricacies of the creditor-borrower relationship and best practices to ensure a successful and profitable lending partnership…
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/ Finance & Banking
On June 7, 2024, Bernard Condon, an Associated Press reporter, authored the article, “Zombies: Ranks of world’s most debt-hobbled companies are soaring, and not all will survive.” Condon’s article details zombie companies (Zs)…
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/ Bankruptcy, Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
West Coast Dental Administrative Services LLC, which operates more than 40 dental and specialist locations in Southern California, and its affiliates have paid $6.3 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act…
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/ Criminal Law, Finance & Banking, Health
The Office of the New York State Attorney General announced on August 13 that Letitia James, along with the Attorneys General of Connecticut and New Jersey, fined Enzo Biochem, Inc. $4.5 million for failing to adequately…
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/ Consumer Protection, Health, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Even the best company is not perfect. Mix ups, mathematical errors, transposing numbers, forgetting to sign a batch production, a supplier mix-up, or any one of an almost infinite potential glitches in the very complex processes…
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/ Consumer Protection, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
We touch upon various issues in our August insurance update.
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts considers the meaning of “surface waters” and whether the sublimit for floods applies when pooled water on a roof…
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/ Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Insurance, Maritime Law
If given their druthers, most transactional corporate attorneys would prefer to spend their day practicing “happy law,” by which they typically mean transactions that involve capital formation, mergers and acquisitions, joint…
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/ Business Organizations, Business Torts, Taxation
We are all familiar with the TV ads run by members of the plaintiffs’ bar seeking plaintiffs for mass toxic tort litigation, those asking whether you or someone you know has been “exposed” to a particular substance and now…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Law Practice Products & Services, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Toxic Torts
