The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Bauxite, Arkansas entered into a March 10th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of the...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Northeast Arkansas Public Water Authority (“NAPWA”) entered into a March 10th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) alleging a...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Little River County entered into a February 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of Arkansas...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Lakeside Gardens Horizontal Property Regime (“LG”) entered into a February 3rd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more
Learn the keys to effective compliance auditing and monitoring - The auditing and monitoring process is critical to a compliance program’s success, in that it provides ongoing assessment of processes, procedures, and...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Jasper, Arkansas entered into a December 4th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a...more
Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Glenwood Enter Into Consent Administrative Order - The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment –...more
In celebration of the recent release of the 6th Edition of the Government Contracts Compliance Handbook, we’re offering six essential steps for conducting compliance audits designed specifically for government contractors. A...more
It’s not immediately obvious why someone would want to disclose a health care test result as part of a job application. But one such request spurred a Pennsylvania entity to provide a lot more than that: it sent her whole...more
Last week, HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with a Pennsylvania provider (the Provider) concerning an alleged violation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Specifically, the Provider impermissibly disclosed a...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Almyra, Arkansas entered into a November 18th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a...more
Question: I recently settled a licensing complaint with the state of Michigan during my compliance conference. In my view the complaint lacked merit. However, I did not want to go through an administrative hearing because it...more
On November 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a $90,000 settlement with Bryan County Ambulance Authority (“BCAA”), a provider of emergency medical...more
On the heels of a $7.6 million payment by Cleveland Clinic to settle allegations of False Claims Act (FCA) violations and unallowable sharing of passwords, Michael Lauer, NIH deputy director for extramural research, penned a...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Strong, Arkansas entered into a July 18th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of the...more
The United Stated Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) transmitted a September 9th letter to the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (“Vermont”) addressing a Joint Petition from: Conservation Law Foundation....more
The Chilean Congress is currently considering a legislative proposal introduced by the Chilean Government aimed at subsidizing electricity costs for approximately 4.7 million households. The proposed bill introduces a...more
Conducting a recall is a time-sensitive process that requires an informed, strategic, and measured approach. When conducting recalls, companies must take the necessary steps to protect patients or consumers and comply with...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) entered into a September 25th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”)...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently settled two ransomware cases with covered entities. These cases signal the government's growing concern with health care...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Searcy Board of Public Utilities (“Searcy”) entered into an August 30th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) has issued a report titled: The EPA Needs to Improve the Verification of Land-Use Controls at Resource Conservation and Recovery Act...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Lockesburg, Arkansas entered in an August 30th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a...more
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (“TDEC”) issued a September 5th Proposed Director’s Order and Assessment (“Order”) to the City of Dayton, Tennessee addressing alleged violations of the Tennessee Safe...more